An ethnographic study of individuals who participated in peyote ceremonies in rural north-central Alabama revealed four core areas of personal change attributed to these ceremonies: reduced drug and ...

It is also considered a sacred medicine. When a member of the tribe seeks the peyote, he receives characteristics that are part of the cactus, rebalancing with nature. Song and ritual are very ...

Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant ...