Native American Church members in Texas have long used peyote in prayer and during religious ceremonies. But believers and academics now say there's a shortage of the bluish-green plant, best known ...

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

Native American cultures are rich and diverse, spanning numerous tribes and traditions. One of the most compelling elements ...

Peyote is being threatened by overharvesting, drug decriminalization laws and a resurgence in psychedelic use.

As one of the highest-ranking military chaplains, Colonel Meeker’s unique position offers critical insights into the intersection of religion, diplomacy, and security. This event will explore the ...

The conversation heated up when Ramaswamy posted Thursday that the main reason tech companies hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over “native” Americans is due to an American educational ...

beliefs about eating are often connected with concerns about purity, said Christina Ward, author of “Holy Food,” a history of how religious groups have shaped what Americans eat. Those ideas ...

the great-great grandson of Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Nation and vice president of the Native American Church of North America. In the following decades, the religion grew significantly ...

They celebrated the Native American New Year this month and ... “So when you talk about spiritually, you talk about religion, you talk about what the salmon mean to us,” said Frank III.

Native American Church members say the situation ... get funding from the U.S. government to protect peyote. Peyote is my religion. Everything in my life has been based on prayers through that ...

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 bluish-green peyote plant ...