embodying their beliefs, values, and ways of life. Understanding these plants and their meanings offers a glimpse into the ...

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 ...

On Dec. 4, the two-year struggle by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protect their sacred land and water ended – at least for now – when the Obama administration denied the easement ...

From genocide in Syria and Iraq to ethnic cleansing in Burma, religious oppression and persecution destroyed countless ...

Nowhere is this more telling than in their respective religious beliefs and treatment of Native Americans. Pilgrims arose from the English Puritan movement in the 1570s. Puritans wanted the ...

Bernard W. Sheehan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "In one of the finest studies of recent years we have an ambitious attempt to satisfy scholar, Native American, popular reader, and ...

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 ...