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Article: INDIAN TRIBES USE PEYOTE FOR HEALING SOUTH TEXAS BRUSH CONSIDERED RELIGIOUS SACRAMENT THAT BRINGS OUT VISIONS OF THE TRUTH.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 14, 1996
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Byline: Jim Jones Forth Worth Star-Telegram
MIRANDO CITY, Texas -- Drumbeats pounded into the Texas night. Ghostly shadows wavered on the walls of the tepee. The air filled with the smell of incense from tobacco and corn-husk cigarettes.
In a close circle, 40 American Indians prayed . . . for the dead, for the sick, for world peace. Their voices chanted ancient, glorious noise.
Then came the peyote. It was passed clockwise, with reverence, around the circle. The true spiritual journey began.
It was a grueling all-night ritual, and these worshipers gathered around a blazing fire were among more than 1,000 American Indians from various ...