It may well be that as an adult and an important peyote chief, he was reluctant to carry out what he considered an old Indian superstition.
Moreover he did not take peyote for his illness; he simply prayed to Peyote in a manner very similar to praying to a spirit guardian for assistance.
They charged, among other things, that peyote meetings were occasions of sexual license.
The peyote button is considered to be a powerful agent and as such potentially dangerous.
The peyote button is reminiscent of the poison parsnip taken by old-time doctors (d'Azevedo 1957).
Bull Durham is also important in peyote ceremonialism because it is "real Indian tobacco.
So every night I prayed to the Peyote to get them stones in one place.
The cross, pictures of Christ, and references to Jesus play a role inpeyote ceremonialism.
Curative peyote meetings are often conducted by a special chief, reputed to have very potent curing powers, who does not conduct the regular peyote meeting.
Despite a belief in and a dependence on shamanistic curing or its latter-day counterpart, the peyote curing session, most Washo are willing patients of white doctors.
In addition to sending her son to peyote meetings, she had taken her granddaughter to the shaman and is a regular attendant at the church sewing school.
In silence, Kirby took from his pocket a strip of the sacred Peyote and bit off one end of it.
Do you mean--" "Because we gathered the Peyotedoes not mean that we have ever tasted it.
Those Ojibwe who have visited the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin have been especially influenced to adopt the peyote cult.
The members of the peyote cult, chew and swallow the peyote buttons which are the button-shaped branches of a cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found in Texas, New Mexico and Old Mexico.
However, peyote carries a governmental disapproval and the Indian police are supposed to be vigilantly alert for peyote.
But several live as isolated families on the shores of our northern lakes, and when they adopt the peyote religion they throw overboard all of their medicine lodge paraphernalia and beliefs.
The Indians justify their use of peyoteby comparing it to the sacramental wine of the white man.
Under its narcotic influence the peyote Indian claims to see in a vision and to commune with Jesus Christ, who gives him the rule of conduct for his life.
They join with them in the sun dance and the peyote rite, and have no distinct tribal ceremony of their own, although they have a "horse medicine" of considerable repute.
See Milly Peacock Stenberg's The Peyote Culture among Wyoming Indians, University of Wyoming Publications, Laramie, 1946, for bibliography.
The use of peyotehas now spread northwest into Canada.
The peyote had begun to work on him, but its effect was entirely different than what he had hoped.
Two peyote buttons, and you think you've seen it all.
Reaching its margins, Kalus drew out the remaining peyote buttons.
Dryer, less green, but still potent in their otherworldly magic: the five remaining peyote buttons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peyote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
