Dayish remembers a time during that period when police confiscated peyote from his church, poured gasoline on the plants ...

Help me to walk respectfully on Mother Earth so none of its plants will be crushed ... 2023 print issue under the headline: A Native American prayer practice for when the world feels too big.

For many Native American Church members who call this region the “peyote gardens,” the plant is sacrosanct and an inextricable part of their prayer and ... is that these plants, these animals ...

Understanding these plants and their meanings ... Tobacco holds a sacred place in many Native American cultures, used as an offering and in prayers to communicate with the spirit world.

When considering shade trees for landscape use, such staple native species as maples, oaks, elms and hornbeams come to mind. Another serviceable choice is the American linden (Tilia americana).

California received historic amounts of rain and snow this winter. Many Native Americans believe the water prayer made it rain. "I am just a guy and had an idea and this is really what it is right ...

Lisa Miller/Brookfield Zoo Share I couldn’t disagree more with Sun-Times reader Howard Pyle, who criticized Brookfield Zoo for participating in a “nonsensical” Native American “prayer and ...

unified Native American people can begin a healing process that will affect not only them but the entire nation. “We’re going to receive the prayer of forgiveness from a nation that never ...