peyote
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of peyote
1840–50, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl peyotl
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Smith, the Supreme Court upheld the firing of two Native American employees who had been denied unemployment benefits after using peyote, a sacrament in their religious ceremonies.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2024
For example: providing a religious exemption to Indigenous people who take peyote as part of a ritual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Native Americans' free-exercise right to ingest peyote was denied in the 1990 Smith decision.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2022
Awareness of the peyote religion poses an ethical dilemma for Pollan: As its practitioners explain, it requires wild cacti — cultivated plants do not have the same spiritual power.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021
The other main source of Christian ideas has been the peyote cult, which includes a roughly Christian version of God and Christ visualized as the father and the brother.
From Washo Religion by James F. Downs
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