PEYOTISM

religion of some Native North Americans in which the hallucinogenic peyote button is used as the sacramental food. It is the most widespread indigenous contemporary Native American religion. Peyotism teaches an ethical doctrine much like those of the monotheistic religions. However, it eschews specific Christian theology, its exponents often stating that while Christ came to the whites, peyote came to the Native Americans. The peyote rite lasts from sunset to sunrise and is usually held in a Plains-type tepee. The rite has four major elements: prayer, singing, eating the sacramental peyote, and contemplation. The religion probably originated among the Kiowa in Oklahoma about 1890 and reflects the influence of traditional peyote use among Mesoamerican groups such as the Huichol. In 1918 many peyotists were brought together as the Native American Church.

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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion & Survival
Book by Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnohistory--Mexico--Nayarit, Huichol Indians--History, Huichol Indians--Religion, Huichol Philosophy, Nayarit (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Peyotism--Mexico--Nayarit, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Nayarit, Shamanism--Mexico--Nayarit
...receptivity to the peyote experience. One could go down the line and point to other discrepancies that clearly mark Tepecano peyotism, however vibrant and important it clearly was in former times, as derivative, a secondary and not a primary religious phenomenon...
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Magic and the Millennium: A Sociological Study of Religious Movements of Protest among Tribal and Third-World Peoples
Book by Bryan R. Wilson; Harper & Row, 1973
Subjects: Cults, Magic, Religion And Sociology
...pattern, although Slotkin refers to Peyotism in general as an essentially Christian...chuch, has been insufficient to dispel. Peyotism has changed over the course of the eighty...other practices have lapsed. In general Peyotism has manifested the increasing acculturation...
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Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History
Book by Robert C. Fuller; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Drugs--Religious Aspects--History, Drugs--United States--History, United States--Religion
...movement. That is, like the Ghost Dance, peyotism was also an attempt to overcome existing...disorganization by means of a collective rite. Peyotism, like the Ghost Dance, emphasized social...culture through supernatural intervention, peyotism focused on the regeneration of Native...
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Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century
Book by Stephen E. Feraca; University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Subjects: Teton Indians--Religion
SIX PEYOTISM Most of the publications dealing with peyotism only slightly mention or wholly ignore the Lakotas, the...that the Lakotas were among the last groups to embrace peyotism. The Oglalas and Sicha + + us cannot be considered peyote...
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Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building
Book by Ronald Niezen; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Canada--Politics And Government, Canada--Race Relations, Evangelistic Work--Canada, Genocide--Canada, Indians Of North America--Canada--Government Relations, Indians Of North America--Canada--Religion, Indians Of North America--Cultural Assimilation--Canada
...its meeting of 3 June, approached peyotism as a serious problem that had to...The Navaho leaders opposed to peyotism at this time were Christians who...principal leader of opposition to peyotism. In the meeting of 3 June, the...
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journal articles on: Peyotism  - 12 results

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Early Osage Peyotism
Journal article by Daniel C. Swan; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 43, 1998
Subjects: Anthropology, Native Americans, Oral history, Osage Tribe, Religion
Early Osage Peyotism by Daniel C. Swan INTRODUCTION The...its use that can equal that accorded peyotism by anthropologists. Scores of monographs...written on the vertiginous spread of peyotism in the United States. While this literature...
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The Common Law Sovereignty of Religious Lawfinders and the Free Exercise Clause
Journal article by Bernard Roberts; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 101, 1991
Subjects: Church and state--Cases, Employment Division, Department of Human Resources v. Smith--110 S. Ct. 1595 (1990), Freedom of religion--Cases, Peyotism--Cases
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The Kiowa Drawings of Gotebo (1847-1927): a Self-portrait of Cultural and Religious Transition
Journal article by William C. Meadows, Kenny Harragarra; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 52, 2007
Subjects: Baptist churches, Christianity, Cultural change, Native North Americans, Religion
...or participate in the introduction of Peyotism (1883), the Ghost Dance (1890...those which involve the Sun Dance, Peyotism, and the dilemma over whether to convert...participation in the Sun Dance, then Peyotism, and finally as a Christian. Perhaps...
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Pictographs at Hunters Shelter: Possible Extension of the Red Linear Style into the Guadalupe Mountains of Southern New Mexico
Journal article by Robert Mark, Evelyn Billo; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 54, 2009
Subjects: Animal shelters, Deer, Dogs, Guadalupe Mountains, Hunting, Rabbits
...reproduction, and Boyd (2003:79, 100) identified datura and peyotism themes. All the previously known sites (about 20) are in...So far, no scenes relating to reproduction, datura, or peyotism have been discovered in the Guadalupe Mountains. DISCUSSION...
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Kiowa Religion in Historical Perspective
Journal article by Benjamin R. Kracht; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...religion that blended together elements from Christianity, peyotism, and indigenous tribal beliefs. A Baptist missionary likened...period of religious diversity represented by the Ghost Dance, peyotism, Christianity, and indigenous beliefs founded in tribal and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Peyotism  - 2 results

 
 
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Peyotism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEYOTISM religion of some Native North Americans in which the hallucinogenic peyote...is the most widespread indigenous contemporary Native American religion. Peyotism teaches an ethical doctrine much like those of the monotheistic religions...
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Ute
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sod shelters. The bear dance and the sun dance were important features of their culture; the Ute also became adherents of peyotism . The Ute were fierce, nomadic warriors, who, after the introduction of the horse, ranged into New Mexico and Arizona...


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