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Native American Church

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Native American Church Native American religious group whose beliefs blend fundamentalist Christian elements with pan-Native American moral principles. The movement began among the Kiowa about 1890 and, led by John Wilson (Big Moon), soon spread to other tribes. The sacramental food of the group was peyote , a hallucinogenic cactus, and the members came to be known as peyotists. In 1918, peyotists from a number of tribes incorporated their movement as the Native American Church. In 1940 the church was declared illegal by the Navajo Tribal Council, which saw it as a threat to Navajo culture... Read more
Native Americans
American Eras ... two of them had churches with covenants ... of relying upon native teachers and made ... would be putting native children as apprentices ... return to their native ways. Not only ... opened his Indian free school in Lebanon ... leader during the American Revolution. With ... attendance at his ... Read more
Native Americans: Response to Christianization
American Eras ... As many Native Americans succumbed ... had his own church built in ... Changes in Native Societies ... Directions in American Indian History ... root out native beliefs ... Renaissance-style church, without ... world of Native America put ... construct the Native ... Read more

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Images and Peyote songs of the Native American Church