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Meaning of "peyotist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PEYOTIST

ˈpeɪəʊtɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEYOTIST

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Peyotist is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PEYOTIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of peyotist in the English dictionary

The definition of peyotist in the dictionary is a person who follows the religion of native American Indians that incorporates the ritual use of peyote or the hallucinatory sacramental disc prepared from a type of cactus.



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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEYOTIST»

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Handbook of North American Indians
Meantime the council further strengthened its stand in 1956, when it legalized destruction of Peyote confiscated in the course of an arrest. Even so, for the first time some non-Peyotist councilmen spoke against the legislation (Navajo Tribal ...
‎1983
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A Different Medicine: Postcolonial Healing in the Native ...
*Adam's discussion of the mirror crescent moons was a revelation to me as a student of Peyotist iconography. It revealed the presence of the sacred circle symbol of Native Americans discussed by Geertz (1973, 128) as “a natural form with a ...
Joseph D. Calabrese, 2013
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Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute
137. Ben. Lancaster. (Chief. Gray. Horse),. Peyotist. Real old-time lookin' Indian, too, that one. . . . Call himself Chief Gray Horse. Most powerful one [Indian doctor] that time! And he's born here, you know, in Wellington. Mother's ...
Michael Hittman, 1996
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Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers ...
... that God put some of his Holy Spirit into peyote, which he gave to the Indians. And by eating the sacramental peyote the Indian absorbs God's Spirit.... For the Peyotist, this occurs because he has put himself in a receptive spiritual mood and  ...
C. Jan Swearingen, David S. Kaufer, 1999
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Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History
Their son Mathew was a ceremonial man and a peyotist. Medicine Grass was a senior lodge man, and his son— in—law Henry Rowlodge was a peyotist. Little Raven, Jr., and his wives Jenny, then Bitchea, were ceremonial people all their ...
Loretta Fowler, 2012
6
Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring ...
eluded many Peyotists and medicine bundle keepers and (2) the "progressives," a recent mixture of Peyotist and Christian Kiowa associated with the Mount Scott and later Anadarko communities. Although some scholars consider this ...
William C. Meadows, 2009
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Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology
When I mentioned the list to another peyotist— my first contact among the Nava- hos— he became quite excited at one of these names. "That's my uncle," he exclaimed. "We could find him at a squaw dance at Greasewood Springs, tonight.
David Friend Aberle, 1966
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the peyote religion among the navaho
When I mentioned the list to another peyotist— my first contact among the Nava- hos— he became quite excited at one of these names. "That's my uncle," he exclaimed. "We could find him at a squaw dance at Greasewood Springs, tonight.
‎1966
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California
Even so, for the first time some non-Peyotist councilmen spoke against the legislation (Navajo Tribal Council 1956). In addition, the number of Peyotist councilmen was growing, from one in 1940, to at least two in 1954, to about a dozen in ...
Robert Fleming Heizer, William C. Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institution, 1983
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Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the ...
19. SLOTKIN, p. 20; WILSON, 426-29. 20. SLOTKIN, Chap. Ill, contains a detailed account of the basic ritual. ABERLE discusses the Navaho versions in his Chaps. 9 and 10. 21. For Peyotist theology, see SLOTKIN, pp. 68 -7 1. 22. SLOTKIN, p.
Peter W. Williams, 1980

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEYOTIST»

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A Trip Down Peyote Way
Perhaps you wake up one morning and decide that today is the day you will become a peyotist. What next? It's not like you can head down to ... «Tucson Weekly, Apr 09»
REFERENCE
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