Peyote Veneration in Challenging Times: Issues of Land and Access in South Texas

Authors

Servando Z. Hinojosa, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-23-2018

Abstract

Members of the Native American Church in the United States need reliable supplies of peyote, an entheogenic plant that they can today only obtain from licensed peyote dealers in South Texas. These dealers have supplied church members with their sacrament since the early twentieth century. Their predecessors, meanwhile, harvested peyote for Native Americans since before the mid-nineteenth century. In recent decades, though, issues of land access and plant scarcity have made it more difficult to acquire peyote. Better handling of peyote habitat and better harvesting methods are needed to meet increasing demand for peyote.

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Copyright (c) 2018 CC BY 4.0 Servando Z. Hinojosa

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Recommended Citation

Hinojosa, Servando Z. “Peyote Veneration in Challenging Times: Issues of Land and Access in South Texas.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Summer 2018), no. 19. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8389

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Publication Title

Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History

DOI

10.5282/rcc/8389

ORCID

0000-0002-2570-6646