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A Culture's Catalyst : Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
Fannie Kahan
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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.--$cProvided by publisher.
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Title
A Culture's Catalyst
Subtitle
Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada
Contributors
Fannie Kahan
,
Erika Dyck
,
Abram Hoffer
,
Duncan Blewett
,
Humphry Osmond
,
Teodoro Weckowicz
Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Publication date
2016-05-06
Pages
176
Print ISBN
9780887558146
eBook ISBN
9780887555084
LC Subjects
Peyotism - Canada.
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Indians of North America - Canada - Religion.
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Indians of North America - Medicine - Canada.
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Indians of North America - Canada - Rites and ceremonies.
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Indians of North America - Canada - Government relations.
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Peyotl - Culte - Canada.
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Indiens d'Amérique - Canada - Religion.
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Indiens d'Amérique - Médecine - Canada.
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Indiens d'Amérique - Canada - Rites et cérémonies.
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Indiens d'Amérique - Canada - Relations avec l'État.
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