Most of my life it’s been boo, booze and blow. I didn’t get into trips until I was 42, in 1957, when a friend of mine in Santa Fe introduced me to peyote. A Taos Indian had given a dozen peyote ...

Peyote is illegal under federal law, except for use in some American Indian religious ceremonies. Since the mid-1970s, the state has licensed a small number of people to sell it to members of the ...

The package contained about 8,000 buttons of peyote. Again, no charges were filed, leaving Mooney and his attorney, Kathryn Collard, somewhat baffled. On November 3, Collard faxed and mailed a letter ...

Steven Benally is a roadman, or "healer," in the Native American tradition of religious worship. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American ...