Peyote sacred to Native Americans threatened by psychedelic renaissance and development
A peyote plant blooms while growing in the nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A welcome sign written in several different Native American languages at the entrance to the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite, led by several leaders within the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Peyote growing in the wild on the 605 acres of land run by the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, which is led by several members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, looks for seeds from a peyote plant, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, left, and Miriam Volat, executive director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and co-director of the RiverStyx Foundation, look for peyote, a cactus and sacred plant medicine utilized in ceremony by members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
