Peyotism And The Native American Church

Author : Phillip M. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313097126

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The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies. As a sacred plant of divine origin, peyote use was well established in religious rituals in pre-Columbian Mexico. Toward the end of the 19th century Peyotism spread to the Indians of Texas and the Southwest, and it spread rapidly in the United States after the subsidence of the Ghost Dance. It persists today among Native Americans in Northern Mexico, the United States, and Southern Canada. Possibly because of the controversy over peyote use, a lot has been written about the Native American Church. This bibliography provides a useful guide for scholars, students, and Native Americans who want to research Peyotism. The bibliography includes books and book chapters, master's theses, Ph.D. dissertations, magazine and journal articles, conference papers, museum publications, U.S. government publications, audiovisual materials, and World Wide Web sites. In addition, it includes selected articles from newspapers, law reviews, medical and psychiatric journals, and scientific journals that provide information on Peyotism. A valuable research guide, the bibliography will help to provide a greater understanding of the history, ceremonies, and significance of the pan-Indian religion.

Author : Omer Call Stewart
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0806124571

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Peyote Religion by Omer Call Stewart Pdf

Describes the peyote plant, the birth of peyotism in western Oklahoma, its spread from Indian Territory to Mexico, the High Plains, and the Far West, its role among such tribes as the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Caddo, Wichita, Delaware, and Navajo Indians, its conflicts with the law, and the history of the Native American Church.

Author : Fannie Kahan
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780887555060

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A Culture's Catalyst by Fannie Kahan Pdf

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. They enlisted the help of Hoffer’s sister, journalist Fannie Kahan, and worked closely with her to document the religious ceremony and write a history of peyote, culminating in a defense of its use as a healing and spiritual agent. Although the text shows its mid-century origins, with dated language and at times uncritical analysis, it advocates for Indigenous legal, political and religious rights and offers important insights into how psychedelic researchers, who were themselves embattled in debates over the value of spirituality in medicine, interpreted the peyote ceremony. Ultimately, they championed peyotism as a spiritual practice that they believed held distinct cultural benefits. “A Culture’s Catalyst” revives a historical debate. Revisiting it now encourages us to reconsider how peyote has been understood and how its appearance in the 1950s tested Native-newcomer relations and the Canadian government’s attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.

Author : Thomas C. Maroukis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185965

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The Peyote Road by Thomas C. Maroukis Pdf

Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote. Thomas C. Maroukis has conducted extensive interviews with NAC members and leaders to craft an authoritative account of the church’s history, diverse religious practices, and significant people. His book integrates a narrative history of the Peyote faith with analysis of its religious beliefs and practices—as well as its art and music—and an emphasis on the views of NAC members. Deftly blending oral histories and legal research, Maroukis traces the religion’s history from its Mesoamerican roots to the legal incorporation of the NAC; its expansion to the northern plains, Great Basin, and Southwest; and challenges to Peyotism by state and federal governments, including the Supreme Court decision in Oregon v. Smith. He also introduces readers to the inner workings of the NAC with descriptions of its organizational structure and the Cross Fire and Half Moon services. The Peyote Road updates Omer Stewart’s classic 1987 study of the Peyote religion by taking into consideration recent events and scholarship. In particular, Maroukis discusses not only the church’s current legal issues but also the diminishing Peyote supply and controversies surrounding the definition of membership. Today approximately 300,000 American Indians are members of the Native American Church. The Peyote Road marks a significant case study of First Amendment rights and deepens our understanding of the struggles of NAC members to practice their faith.

Author : Shawna Lee,Kylo Curley,Colleen Roan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1091473889

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Native American Church 1918-2018 by Shawna Lee,Kylo Curley,Colleen Roan Pdf

A History of the Native American Church from 1918 to 2018. Chronicling 100 years of the Native American Church utilizing existing research, first person narratives, primary research, primary source documents, exiting photographs and his primary photographs.

Author : Weston La Barre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017989081

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The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre Pdf

"This is the classical study of the background of the Mexican and American Indian ritual based on the plant that produces profound but temporary sensory and psychic derangements. Acid-heads and mind-blowing cultists will find much thought-food in this careful anthropological work, and in the author's new preface, with its penetrating appraisal of the use of artificial psychedelic drugs as instruments of revolt... The study started when the author was twenty-four; he participated in the rites of fifteen tribes using Lophophora williamsii (Lemaire), a small, spineless, carrot-shaped cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. The original study has been supplemented by two essays that bring the account up to 1964, including a report of the Timothy Leary-Richard Alpert "débacle" at Harvard in 1963."--Google.

Author : David Friend Aberle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015005683605

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The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho by David Friend Aberle Pdf

This book deals with the history and nature of the peyote cult in the Navaho country, with long-continues resistance to the cult of teh majority of the tribe and the vast majority of the Tribal Council, and with the facotrs that promote indivisual acceptance of the cult and that account for variation in the level of acceptance of the cult in various communities.

Author : Huston Smith,Reuben Snake, Jr.
Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047565216

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One Nation Under God by Huston Smith,Reuben Snake, Jr. Pdf

This inspirational book celebrates the faith and courage of members of a traditional church that -- in 20th century America -- still struggling for religious freedom. Their Greatest challenge is the ongoing legal battle against the 1990 Supreme Court decision citing peyote use to deny the Native American Church the First Amendment right to 'the free exercise of religion'. Legislation providing an exemption to the Native American Church was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1997. The eloquent personal testimony offered by Church members from many different tribes demonstrates the spiritual strength of this religious tradition and makes it clear that peyote is not used to obtain 'visions' but to heal the body and spirit and to teach righteousness. Peyote meetings play, which stress abstinence from alcohol, truthfulness, family obligations, economic self-suffering, service, and prayer. This book is important reading for any one who cares about spiritual values, political process, and the individual's freedom to worship according to the dictates of conscience.

Author : Daniel C. Swan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578060966

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Peyote Religious Art by Daniel C. Swan Pdf

An examination of the vibrant traditional and folk arts inspired by the sacramental use of peyote by members of the Native American Church

Author : Vincenzo Petrullo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512818376

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The Diabolic Root by Vincenzo Petrullo Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Åke Hultkrantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015043097107

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The Attraction of Peyote by Åke Hultkrantz Pdf

This book discusses the Peyote religion, a religion centered around the ritual consumption of the Peyote cactus. Its ecclesiastical organization, the North American Church, has stirred some attention among scholars, most of them anthropologists. The author describes what he calls all the "nativistic" religious movements which have emerged in the Peyote tradition in North America over the past 200 years.

Author : Edgar E. Siskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015005645588

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Washo Shamans and Peyotists by Edgar E. Siskin Pdf

Author : Joseph D. Calabrese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199927845

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A Different Medicine by Joseph D. Calabrese Pdf

In 'A Different Medicine', Joseph Calabrese presents a case study that challenges many deeply ingrained cultural assumptions and attempts to mediate a centuries-old clash of cultural paradigms. The book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of a postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church. Calabrese argues against the War on Drugs and the Supreme Court decision that jeopardized the right of Native Americans to use this medicine. He urges us to recognize the multiplicity of the normal and the therapeutic.

Author : James Sydney Slotkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39076005526319

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Menomini Peyotism by James Sydney Slotkin Pdf

Author : James Sydney Slotkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000129021

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The Peyote Religion by James Sydney Slotkin Pdf