of American Indians of their generation รป the last generation to have any sense of wholeness as a culture, in much the same way that Peyotism helped American Indians of the 20th century (and one assumes the 21st) to define who they are by participating in an activity denied to other Americas (Theisz, 1984, pp. 283-5).
From 1886 to 1932 the Bureau of Indian Affairs joined traditional Christian missionary societies to thwart Peyotism by all means possible. Federal prohibitions were p
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