Billings Gazette

Peyote stitch beading demonstration offered on July 15

A free peyote stitch beading demonstration will be given at Chief Plenty Coups State Park on Friday at 1 p.m. Amy “Doonie” Young will demonstrates the art of peyote stitch beading, or gourd stitch, ...
Billings Gazette

Peyote stitch beading demonstration offered

Montana State Parks will be offering a free peyote stitch beading demonstration at Chief Plenty Coups State Park on Friday, July 21, from 1-3 p.m. Amy “Doonie” Young will give demonstrations on peyote ...
Los Angeles Times

Peyote, sacred to Native Americans, is threatened by psychedelic renaissance and development

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the ...
AZ Central

Native religious leaders say legalizing peyote use for all would threaten their practices

The possibility that states might decriminalize the general use of peyote is raising concerns among Indigenous practitioners, who employ the cactus in traditional settings like the Native American ...
NPR

Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists'

Though peyote — a hallucinogenic cactus — has been used for hundreds of years by Mexican Indians, it only became popular outside of indigenous communities after Carlos Castaneda, then a student at the ...