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Author Kahan, Fannie, 1922-1978, author.

Title A culture's catalyst : historical encounters with peyote and the Native American Church in Canada / Fannie Kahan with Abram Hoffer, Duncan Blewett, Humphry Osmond, and Teodoro Weckowicz ; edited and with an introduction by Erika Dyck
Published Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2016

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Contents 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
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Canada
HISTORY / Native American
RELIGION / Ethnic and Tribal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Native American Church of North America -- History
SUBJECT Native American Church of North America
Native American Church of North America fast
Subject Peyotism -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Religion
Indians of North America -- Medicine -- Canada
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Government relations.
Mescaline.
Indians of North America.
Religion.
Indians -- Medicine -- Canada
Mescaline
Indians, North American
Religion
religion (discipline)
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Religion
Mescaline
Indians of North America
Indians -- Medicine
Indians of North America -- Government relations
Indians of North America -- Medicine
Indians of North America -- Religion
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
Peyotism
SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Osmond, Humphry, author
Dyck, Erika, editor
Hoffer, Abram, 1917-2009, author.
Blewett, Duncan, author
Weckowicz, Thaddeus E., author.
ISBN 9780887555084
088755508X
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0887558143
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