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Omer C. Stewart’s classic anthropological study provides foundational ethnographic and historical documentation of peyotism and its social dynamics.

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry offering a concise, scholarly overview of the movement’s history and practice.

Text and legislative history of the 1978 Act and later policy documents relevant to Indigenous religious practice (official government sources catalog relevant provisions and amendments).

U.S. Supreme Court decision affecting religious‑liberty jurisprudence broadly, often discussed in relation to sacramental peyote and RFRA.

Scholarly articles surveying the NAC’s legal engagements and the statutory protections that emerged in the late twentieth century (representative works by legal scholars and historians).

Conservation biology and ethnobotany literature addressing the ecological status of peyote and stewardship efforts relevant to NAC communities.

John G. Neihardt’s recording of Oglala Lakota elder Black Elk provides contextual material about Plains spiritualities that intersect with NAC histories; cited as a primary ethnographic source with interpretive caveats.

Reference entries on peyotism and Indigenous North American religions used in comparative religious‑studies scholarship.