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Navajo Fight Over Peyote Bean Use Across Tribes
WINDOW ROCK Ariz A beadlike cactus bean acts as a narcotic key in Native ceremonies triggering a clash at the Navajo tribal council summer session The council weighs enforcing a ban while supporters of the Native American Church push for religious freedom Seevers a scientist says peyote is used for ceremonial wakefulness and visions Aberly notes worshipers seek communion with God through the bean and that usage has grown from 11000 12000 Navajos in 1951 to about 14000 by now The bean is native to Texas and northern Mexico and Navajos obtain it from Oklahoma or Mexico through the Ute tribe Prohibitions exist in Texas and Arizona but enforcement has been limited with recent arrests on peyote charges</S:
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Window Rock
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University of Michigan
Maurice Seevers
Seevers
David Aberly
Aberly
Mexico
Secvers
Federal Narcotic Hospital
Lexington
Pat Aberly
Navajo Reservation
Oklahoma
Redrock
Sukachuka
Tohatchi
Big Bend
Texas
Arizona