A Culture's Catalyst: Historical Encounters With Peyote And The Native American Church In Canada

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to a peyote ceremony of the Native American Church. Afterward, journalist Fannie Kahan was enlisted to write a book on peyote and its historical relationship with Indigenous people in North America. A Culture's Catalyst encourages us to consider how peyote in Canada has been understood and how its appearance in 1950s Saskatchewan tested Native-newcomer relations and attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.

• | Author: Fannie Kahan, Abram Hoffer, Humphry Osmond, Duncan Blewett, Teodoro Weckowicz
• | Publisher: University Of Manitoba Press
• | Publication Date: May 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0887558143
• | ISBN-13: 9780887558146