From Texas Standard: In ecological terms, South Texas is known as brush country – it’s home to lots of thorny shrubs, trees and palms. Its humid climate makes it similar to parts of Northern Mexico, ...

The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers, alongside her husband, to harvest and sell the sacramental plant to followers of the Native ...

Growing in the desolate desert of Northern Mexico and the Southern region of Texas there lies a cactus whose history is as vast as the desert it inhabits. The “Lophophora Williamsii,” commonly known ...

Steven Benally is a roadman, or "healer," in the Native American tradition of religious worship. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American ...

For many Native American Church members who call this region the "peyote gardens," the plant is sacrosanct and an inextricable part of their prayer and ceremony. It’s believed to be a natural healer ...

The peyote cactus, or Lophophora williamsii, is unassuming at first glance. It’s small and spineless, unlike other cacti. But inside the small buttons that grow from the plant lies a hallucinogenic ...

Andres Carillo, a Huichol Indian shaman, uses the peyote plant to create these artworks depicting the visions he has after consuming the cactus. The Huichol have asked the Mexican government to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By DEEPA BHARATH and JESSIE WARDARSKI The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North ...