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	Native American Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although describing itself as a church, the Native American Church refuses to accept the doctrines or canons of any one Christian sect.
		In response to this situation, the Native American Church was organised with the purpose of defending the beliefs and practices of peyotists.
		The Supreme Court's ruling is perceived by many Native Americans as a denial of their religious freedom and, therefore, a violation of the First Amendment.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/nac.html (481 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Native American Church
		The central and distinctive practice of the Native American Church is the ceremonial and sacramental use of peyote, a psychoactive or entheogenic cactus (lophophora williamsii), and that practice among the Huichol and other tribes goes back thousands of years in Mexico.
		The principal ritual of the Native American Church is the peyote ceremony.
		Two Native American Church members were fired from their jobs as drug rehabilitation counselors for their use of peyote.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/nachurch.htm (1744 words)

	The Native American Church: Recollections of the Peyote Road
		The church membership is growing from within because of an increase of children in Peyote families, but the number of new members from outside these families is negligible.
		The official colors of the church are red, white, and blue, colors which also appear in the beadwork of religious paraphernalia; veterans have beadwork designs of the national flag.
		The nationalism of the church is partly attributable to its pan-Indian organization; it also reflects the fact that the government recognizes the Peyote religion and allows the Indians to practice it freely.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/drg29.htm (4863 words)

	U.S. v. Boyll Order, 774 F.Supp. 133 - Non-Indian Peyote Dealer's Prosecution Unconstitutional
		The issue presented is the recurring conflict between the Native American Church members' right to freely exercise their religion through the ceremonial use of peyote and the Government's efforts to eradicate illegal drugs.
		Boyll cannot be a member of the Native American Church because "membership is limited to persons who [sic] ethnic descent is at least twenty- five percent derived from American Indian stock, and to the spouses of such persons"; that, therefore, Mr.
		Since the use of peyote by Native American Church members is the very essence of their religious beliefs, the proposed racially restrictive reading of 21 C.F.R. 1307.31 would have the sure effect of imposing a racial exclusion to membership in the Native American Church itself.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/drg27.htm (4808 words)

	Native American Church - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1940 the church was declared illegal by the Navajo Tribal Council, which saw it as a threat to Navajo culture and to Christianized Navajos.
		The Church of the Immaculate Conception: inculturation and identity among the Anishnaabeg of Manitoulin Island.(Special Issue: To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality)
		Chris Buller embraces church members after his Sunday service where native Americans are now attending church with the town locals.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-natva1mc1h.html (445 words)

	Native American Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Among the various beliefs are: belief in Jesus as a Native American culture hero, an intercessor for man or a spiritual guardian; belief in the Bible; belief in Peyote personified as a God; and association of Jesus with Peyote.
		Native people have turned to the Church and relied on it when their lives have been beset by substance-abuse or domestic problems.
		Nonetheless, a Native American Peyotist is much less likely to be prosecuted than the average drug user (see details at Peyote).
	native-american-church.iqnaut.net (473 words)

	Native American Church deserves its sacrament : ICT [2005/09/22] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These days, the Native American Church is in danger of being hurt by the constant number of cases in criminal drug situations where people claim American Indian status to use or transact peyote - which is a controlled substance, according to federal law.
		The peyote church - still too easily misunderstood among many people - is a rich and highly humanistic approach to family life and culture, ritualized with great poise and respect, around the ingestion of the peyote cactus (lophophora williamsii).
		The Native American Church was incorporated in 1918 and has struggled to sustain public respect in the face of many ill-informed attacks.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096411609 (1109 words)

	CSP - 'A Brief History of the Native American Church'
		The Native American deification of the plant is estimated to be about 10,000 years old.
		We have many early, brief descriptions of peyote use among natives of northwestern Mexico, and two Inquisition reports from Santa Fe, New Mexico, which document peyote's use in divination, showing that by 1630 it was already being used five hundred miles north of its natural habitat.
		In 1918, after testifying in favor of Native American peyotists at Congressional hearings, Mooney advised peyotists of various Oklahoma tribes to obtain a legal charter to protect their religious freedom.
	www.csp.org /communities/docs/fikes-nac_history.html (1751 words)

	Rachel Kunze (University of Iowa)
		In 1918 the Native American Church was organized by adherents of the Peyote Religion who sought to protect their religious practices from attack by the anti-peyotist adversaries of the US Federal Government, the Catholic Church, and tribal oppositionist groups such as the Navajo Tribal Council.
		Albaugh concludes that the success of the Native American Church ceremonies in combating alcoholism is due to the therapeutic nature of the ceremony itself, and that the ingestion of peyote only increases suggestibility, which allows anti-alcoholic messages to have greater affect in the lives of the members.
		Calabrese sees Native American Church ceremonies as a natural psychology in which "the conceptual and emotional framework in which a situation is experienced by the patient is replaced by another framework that applies equally well, or even better to the ‘facts’; therapy then changes the total meaning of an existing situation" (Calabrese 245).
	www.drury.edu /ess/irconf/curpapers/RKunze.html (2847 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Native American Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		American art AMERICAN ART [American art] the art of the North American colonies and of the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09028.html (763 words)

	Church addresses wide range of Native American issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The delegates, which included 13 Native Americans, called on the United Methodist Church to direct the appropriate church agencies, in consultation with Native American groups, to engage the Cleveland community and the baseball team's owners in a dialogue to increase understanding and sensitivity about ethnic caricatures and mascots.
		The delegates also referred to the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries a request that Native American lands be returned without compensation to the Indian nation that resides within the boundaries of the land or to the Indian nation that was the original owner.
		In keeping with American Indian awareness, the delegates requested that the denomination's Council on Ministries maintain a forum or common table to enable the Native American ministries to collaborate and connect with the general agencies of the church.
	gbgm-umc.org /mission/news2000/umns053000lgsc.stm (1266 words)

	MAPS: [] For Native American Church, Peyote Is Sacred
		FOR NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH, PEYOTE IS SACRED All his life, Tommy Billy has faced ridicule for practicing a religious belief as old as the red canyon rocks near his home on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona.
		I was born into the church and baptized in the Half-Moon Fireplace of the Native American Church of Wisconsin.
		Billy blames himself, other church leaders and their followers for failing to educate their own people about the significance of peyote as a holy medicine and the struggles the church has endured to protect it.
	www.maps.org /pipermail/maps_forum/2000-January/002273.html (869 words)

	- Feds plan to change name of Native American Church and other regulations -Native American Indian Tribes - Over 2,000 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nagel’s letter notes that the Department of Justice’s “protection is not limited to the Native American Church, but is extended to any member of a federally recognized Indian tribe who is engaged in the practice of a traditional Indian religion.” The change in the language purports to clear up any confusion in the law.
		Teresa Murray, secretary of the Native American Church for the State of Oklahoma is opposed to the change in the language and the purposed new regulations.
		Mooney is the founder the Oklevueha Native American Church in Benjamin, Utah.
	www.aaanativearts.com /article372.html (1263 words)

	Native american church
		The mid 1800's was a time of great pain and suffering to all Native Americans who were confined to reservations.
		Acceptance of the Native American church, a term used for the peyote religion, by the surrounding culture and by the US government has been a gradual and complex process.
		With the help of James Mooney, an anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution, the Native American Church was officially incorporated in 1918.
	www.montana.edu /wwwai/imsd/cancer/raelene/rznativechurch.html (994 words)

	Native American Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Native American Church, also called Peyotism or Peyote religion, originated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans.
		The Native American Church was the first truly "American" religion based on Christianity outside of the Latter Day Saints.
		The Peyoteros are a group of closely knit families of mixed Native American and Spanish ancestry who have harvested peyote for Native Americans since the early 1700s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Native_American_Church (1599 words)

	Native American Church of South Dakota, Inc. 1583 ~ NACNA Affiliate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Native American Church of South Dakota mission is to be
		The Native American Church of South Dakota was formally incorporated on
		The Native American Church of South Dakota, Inc. was the first of its kind in the state of
	www.nacofsd.org (623 words)

	Native American Ministries Home Page
		Through this kind of assistance, it is hoped that Native Americans -- the smallest ethnic minority in the denomination -- would become a meaningful part of the larger, primarily Anglo denomination.
		It is the belief of the office that Native Americans have much to contribute to the larger denomination and society.
		Kent is executive secretary for Native American and Indigenous Ministries with the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church.
	www.santel.net /~dumcc/native_am_home.html (712 words)

	PC(USA) - Racial Ethnic Ministries - Native American Congregational Enhancement
		The Native American Congregational Enhancement (NACE) Office is an entity of the Racial Ethnic Congregational Enhancement Program Area of the National Ministries Division.
		The Church of Jesus Christ is built on the universal love of God and its power to transform people of every race, culture and class into a community living together as the Household of God.
		The Native American Congregational Enhancement Office (NACE) is available to assist synods and presbyteries, congregations and others in developing a partnership for new ministry with Native Americans.
	www.pcusa.org /nativeamerican (265 words)

	Universalist Unitarian Church, Native American
		Describing Native American religion is a challenging task to tackle, if only because the Indian systems of belief and ritual were as legion as the tribes inhabiting North America.
		Second, most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing "Great Mystery" or Creator (a being that assumed a variety of forms and both genders).
		On the contrary, Native Americans perceived "material" and "spiritual" as a unified realm of being--a kind of extended Kinship network.
	www.bright.net /~wbehee/nativeamerican.htm (710 words)

	Native American Church Guestbook
		For twenty years I studied the lore and crafts of the native Southwest and I have the greatest respect and admiration for the truly inherent artistic skills and deeply felt spiritual values of the true natives of this land.
		Eugenia was one of the early non-indian NAC members in NM going back to the 1960's and the founding of the American Church of God chapter of peyote members.
		We pray for all the Helpers of the NAC to be blessed with good things, and travel safely to the meetings they conduct, so they can return home safely to their loved ones.
	www.nativeamericanchurch.com /guest/guestbook.html (21408 words)

	Native American Church — Infoplease.com
		The Church of the Immaculate Conception: inculturation and identity among the Anishnaabeg of Manitoulin Island.(Special Issue: To......
		Fishing for stories at Burnt Church: the media, the Marshall Decision and Aboriginal representation.(news coverage of native fishing......
		A fragile miracle: defying five hundred years of conquest, Native people continue to survive--and continue to speak out for their......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0834977.html (352 words)

	Native American Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Native American Church is a religious body composed of Indians from several tribes mainly in the southwest United States.
		The church combines some teachings of traditional Christianity with the sacramental use of the drug Peyote.
		The church's peyote ceremony is an all - night ritual.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txo/nativeam.htm (189 words)

	ASU Libraries: Native American Religions,
		Overall, a large body of material exists about Native American worldview and sacred beliefs in spirits, the Native American Church, peyote religion, Plains Sun Dances, Navajo Chants, Pueblo ceremonialism, guardian spirits and vision quests, Inuit masks, Iroquois thanksgiving rites, shamanism, and medicine objects.
		A comprehensive reference publication on Native American religions and their components and historical antecedents, myths, and origin stories.
		Documentary on the historical roots of Native American religious persecution and issues such as access and protection of sacred rites, first amendment protection and the use of peyote in the Native American Church.
	www.asu.edu /lib/subject/religionmyths.htm (1372 words)

	Native American Church
		The practices of the Native Americans differed from that of the shamanistic rituals used by their Mexican counterparts.
		The American tribes blended in Christian theology, and emphasized a communal ceremony of chanting, meditation and prayer.
		By becoming a member of the Church, you will be protected from prosecution in the States that allow the Peyote sacrament.
	users.lycaeum.org /~iamklaus/native.htm (818 words)

	Keepers of Creation Church - A Native American Church
		Metropolitan/Archbishop of the Holy Orthodox Native American Catholic Archdiocese and Chief Patriarch of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Holy Orthodox Native American Catholic Church
		The Keepers of Creation Church is to be operated as a "Church Without Walls" with individuals praying directly to the Great Spirit and coming together for group services only as needed for fellowship, Religious family celebrations or as deemed reasonable by Members or by the Patriarch.
		All Members of the Church follow the Tenets and By-Laws of the Church but the Church is not responsible for their actions as individuals.
	www.education-1.net /KCC.htm (5976 words)

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