San Antonio plans to remove Breckinridge Park trees where cormorants nest. That violates Lipan-Apache religious freedom, ...

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 ...

This meant that Native American people could not freely go onto privately owned ranches and prayerfully harvest peyote as they had done for generations. They lost their sacred connection with the ...

The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site on the slopes ... and other federal agencies agreed to replant trees and aid in efforts to rebuild an altar at a ...

How is peyote used in the Native American Church? Peyote is the central part of a ceremony that takes place in a tipi around a crescent-shaped earthen altar mound and a sacred fire. The ceremony ...

What Is the Native American Church and Why Is Peyote Sacred to Members? The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America.