How Native Americans Successfully Use Ayahuasca, ... It is still used today by some tribes, such as the Huichol in Mexico and the modern-day Native American Church (NAC) ...

Peyote grows in the American southwest and Mexico, and early Americans started taking it as early as 3,780 B.C., according to one study. Their successors, members of the present-day Native American ...

What first attracted him to these traditional healers, he says, was their focus on preventing, rather than treating, illness – a priority at the time far less visible in his native America.

Substances like ayahuasca and psilocybin can induce a sense of unity with the world—and even allow some users to “see ... from Native Americans to South Asian Vedic practitioners to Europeans.

Celebrating Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day this week highlights the importance of recognizing indigenous cuisines in the U.S. and the authentic, sustainable food it offers.