Yet Native Americans were not allowed to practice their religion and were persecuted for conducting tribal ceremonies integral to the continuation of traditional culture. At the same time ...

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 ...

The Native American Church of North America, also known as Peyotism, was developed into a religion in the 1880s by the Kiowa and Comanche of Oklahoma, and soon after began to spread north and into ...