Explore the sacred role of peyote in Native American culture and efforts to protect it from environmental and human threats.

Poaching, excessive harvesting and other factors are endangering the slow-growing peyote plant, which is used in Indigenous ...

Peyote is a small, spineless cactus plant found in the Southwest best known for its hallucinogenic effects. It’s also a ...

Peyote, a spineless cactus, grows naturally in South Texas and in parts of northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Native ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America.

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the ...

the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be found growing naturally ...

“Our belief is that these plants, these animals ... scientist and co-founder of Texas-based Cactus Conservation Institute, remembers how abundantly peyote grew in the region during the 1970s.