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 ...
Nowhere is this more telling than in their respective religious beliefs and treatment of Native Americans. Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement that originated in the 1570s.
Even though it is a controlled substance under federal law, an exemption afforded by a 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use ...