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A Culture's Catalyst - Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada (Hardcover)
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A Culture's Catalyst - Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada (Hardcover)
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In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and
Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant
First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in
a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of
Canada.Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays
explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice
of peyotism. They enlisted the help of Hoffer's sister, journalist
Fannie Kahan, and worked closely with her to document the religious
ceremony and write a history of peyote, culminating in a defense of
its use as a healing and spiritual agent.Although the text shows
its mid-century origins, with dated language and at times
uncritical analysis, it advocates for Indigenous legal, political
and religious rights and offers important insights into how
psychedelic researchers, who were themselves embattled in debates
over the value of spirituality in medicine, interpreted the peyote
ceremony. Ultimately, they championed peyotism as a spiritual
practice that they believed held distinct cultural benefits. A
Culture's Catalyst revives a historical debate. Revisiting it now
encourages us to reconsider how peyote has been understood and how
its appearance in the 1950s tested Native-newcomer relations and
the Canadian government's attitudes toward Indigenous religious and
cultural practices.
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