adding that it took decades of lobbying until an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1994 permitted members of federally recognized Native American tribes to use peyote for ...

For many tribal artists, there was a financial incentive to create objects that would appeal to non-Natives. But that’s changing.

The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers, alongside her husband, ...

Murielle Borst Tarrant used her experiences growing up in the only Native American family in her Brooklyn neighborhood in ...

Three months after the massacre, the first Medal of Honor for Wounded Knee was awarded to an officer who, according to the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers ...

a spiritual homesite and peyote conservation site for Native American Church members on 605 acres of land in the peyote gardens of South Texas, Monday, March 25, 2024, in Hebbronville, Texas. (AP ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the ...