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Academic Article, January 15, 1896

The Mescal Plant and Ceremony

An account of the Kiowa and Comanche peyote ceremony by ethnologist James Mooney, published in the Therapeutic Gazette in 1896. Drawing on field observation and participation since 1891, Mooney describes the all-night rite, dosages, and cases including his interpreter Paul Setkopti and leader Quanah Parker.

Peyote: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, on H.R. 2614

Testimony, February–March 1918

Peyote Hearings, H.R. 2614 (1918)

Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, on H.R. 2614

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Indian Affairs held February-March 1918 hearings on H.R. 2614, a bill to prohibit peyote use in Indian Country. Witnesses included ethnologist James Mooney, Osage chief Fred Lookout, Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche, Arapaho delegate Cleaver Warden, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Paul Boynton.