Native American stories are as varied as the trees ... the teachings of spirit mentors, instructions for ceremony and ritual, observations of worlds, and storehouses of ethno-ecological knowledge.

Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American people for millennia. It contains several psychoactive compounds, primarily mescaline, which is a hallucinogen.

Dances, coming-of-age traditions, beliefs around how to handle grief — those ceremonies got lost ... focusing on the ...