TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kahan,Fannie
AU  - Osmond,Humphry
AU  - Dyck,Erika
AU  - Hoffer,Abram
AU  - Blewett,Duncan
AU  - Weckowicz,Thaddeus E.
TI  - A culture's catalyst: historical encounters with peyote and the Native American Church in Canada 
SN  - 9780887555084
AV  - E98.R3 
U1  - 299.7/91 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Winnipeg, Manitoba
PB  - University of Manitoba Press
KW  - Native American Church of North America
KW  - History
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
KW  - Peyotism
KW  - Canada
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Religion
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Mescaline
KW  - Indians
KW  - Indians, North American
KW  - Peyotl
KW  - Culte
KW  - Premières Nations
KW  - Peuples autochtones
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Rites et cérémonies
KW  - Relations avec l'État
KW  - religion (discipline)
KW  - aat
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - HISTORY / Native American
KW  - RELIGION / Ethnic and Tribal
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Peyote -- A culture's catalyst : the eternal search / Fannie Kahan -- The great bastion / Fannie Kahan -- The struggle for peyote / Fannie Kahan -- The spiritual herb / Fannie Kahan -- Night in the tipi /Humphry Osmond -- The psychedelic experience in the Native American Church / Duncan Blewett -- Peyote ceremony and Jungian archetypes / Teodoro Weckowicz -- Peyote : a sacrament by medical prescription / Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond; Access restricted to LAC onsite clients
N2  - "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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