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

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.

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

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.