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Author | : Omer Call Stewart |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780806124575 |
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 | : Thomas C. Maroukis |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806185961 |
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 | : Daniel C. Swan |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781578060962 |
An examination of the vibrant traditional and folk arts inspired by the sacramental use of peyote by members of the Native American Church
Author | : Stacy B. Schaefer |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826319050 |
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Author | : Phillip M. White |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2000-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313097127 |
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 | : Barbara G. Myerhoff |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Huichol Indians |
ISBN | : 9780801491375 |
"Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in many of his culture's myths, rituals, and symbols, particularly those pertaining to the sacred untiy of deer, maize, and peyote. The significance of this constellation of symbols was revealed to me most vividly when I accompanied Ramón on the Huichol's annual ritual return to hunt the peyote in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in myth and probably in history the place from which the Ancient Ones (ancestors and deities of the present-day Indians) came before settling in their present home in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Mexico. My work with Ramón preceded and followed our journey, but it was this peyote hunt that held the key to, and constituted the climax of, his teachings."--from the Preface
Author | : Ruth Murray Underhill |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1971-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226841656 |
A comprehensive study of the history and cultural traditions of the North American Indians. from pre-history to the present.
Author | : Garrett Epps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Drugs of abuse |
ISBN | : 9780806140261 |
Examines the Oregon court case over whether the First Amendment protects the right of Native Americans to use peyote in their religious practices.
Author | : James Sydney Slotkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander S. Dawson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2018-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520960904 |
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.