It's only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be found growing naturally, nestled under thorny mesquite, acacia and blackbrush. For many Native American Church ...

Louis W. Ballard paved the way for a booming generation of artists. But his works have been too little performed and recorded.

Sun Dances were once held in Oklahoma as well, but this is no longer done. The Peyote Ceremony, often associated with the Native American Church, consists of a mix of native beliefs and practices ...

It's in an area Native Americans call the peyote gardens because the spineless cactus containing the hallucinogen mescaline, a plant they hold sacred, only grows naturally in this region and in ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...