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Peyote religion : a history
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ISBN: 0806120681 Year: 1987 Volume: vol 181 Publisher: Norman London University of Oklahoma press

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A culture's catalyst : historical encounters with peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
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ISBN: 9780887555084 088755508X 9780887555060 0887555063 0887558143 9780887558146 9780887558146 Year: 2016 Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press,

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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.


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Peyote
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Year: 1972 Publisher: Bergenfield, New Jersey The New American Library, Inc.

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Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas : The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
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ISBN: 1496205669 1496205642 1496204581 9781496205667 9781496204585 9781496204585 9781496205643 9781496205650 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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"Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, "Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas" examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century"--


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Peyote hunt: : the sacred journey of the Huichol Indians
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ISBN: 0801408172 9780801408175 Year: 1978 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.): Cornell university press,

Peyote, the divine cactus
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ISBN: 0816506809 0816506132 Year: 1980 Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press,


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The Peyote Effect : From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs
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ISBN: 0520960904 9780520960909 9780520285422 0520285425 0520285433 9780520285439 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding the place of peyote in history. In this provocative new book, Dawson argues that peyote has marked the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish Inquisition outlawed it in 1620. For nearly four centuries ecclesiastical, legal, scientific, and scholarly authorities have tried (unsuccessfully) to police that boundary to ensure that, while indigenous subjects might consume peyote, others could not. Moving back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border, The Peyote Effect explores how battles over who might enjoy a right to consume peyote have unfolded in both countries, and how these conflicts have produced the racially exclusionary systems that characterizes modern drug regimes. Through this approach we see a surprising history of the racial thinking that binds these two countries more closely than we might otherwise imagine.

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