A CULTURE'S CATALYST Historical Encounters with PEYOTE and the NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH in CANADA

FANNIE KAHAN with Abram Hoffer, Duncan Blewett , Humphry Osmond, and Teodoro Weckowicz / Edted and with an Introduction by Erika Dyck

ISBN 10: 0887558143 / ISBN 13: 9780887558146

Edité par University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2013

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**Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Ex-Library copy with usual library stickers on cover, moisture dimple on top edge of about 50 pages, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 130 pages (2013). In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada. Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. Hoffer's sister, journalist Fannie Kahan documented the religious ceremony and wrote a history of peyote. Their writing advocates for Indigenous legal, political, and religious rights and offers important insights into how psychedelic researchers interpreted the peyote ceremony.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: A CULTURE'S CATALYST Historical Encounters with PEYOTE and the NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH in CANADA
• Éditeur: University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0887558143
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780887558146
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Native American First Nations
  • Health and Fitness
  • Religion

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Synopsis

In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native American Church of Canada.

Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism. They enlisted the help of Hoffer's sister, journalist Fannie Kahan, and worked closely with her to document the religious ceremony and write a history of peyote, culminating in a defense of its use as a healing and spiritual agent.

Although the text shows its mid-century origins, with dated language and at times uncritical analysis, it advocates for Indigenous legal, political, and religious rights and offers important insights into how psychedelic researchers, who were themselves embattled in debates over the value of spirituality in medicine, interpreted the peyote ceremony. Ultimately, they championed peyotism as a spiritual practice that they believed held distinct cultural benefits.

A Culture's Catalyst revives a historical debate. Revisiting it now encourages us to reconsider how peyote has been understood and how its appearance in the 1950s tested Native-newcomer relations and the Canadian government's attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.

À propos des auteurs

Fannie Kahan (1922-1978) was born in southern Saskatchewan. She was a journalist and the author of a number of books, including Brains and Bricks: The History of the Yorkton Psychiatric Centre (1965) and A Different Drummer: The History of the Saskatchewan Psychiatric Nurses' Association (1973).

Erika Dyck is a historian of health, medicine, and Canadian society at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research has concentrated on the history of mental health, institutionalization, and experimentation.