The Search for Peace in Times of Chaos—Volume of violence and take the Peyote religion to the Indian peoples Parker’s words and teachings comprise the core of the Native American Church doctrine and the Peyote Road Parker taught that the sacred peyote medicine was the sacrament given to all peoples by the Creator and was to be used with water when taking communion in some Native American Church medicine ceremonies Healers and singers achieve a union with their Creator as incarnated in peyote Peyote speaks through them One such tribe is the Huichol Huichol religion parallels Christianity in that the Creator, out of compassion for His people, subjects Himself to the limitations of this world In Christianity, He incarnates Himself as a man who dies but is resurrected to save human beings; in Huichol, they believed He dies and is reborn in the peyote plant to give His people wisdom The rituals of the Native American Church allow believers to experience a revelation of mystical knowledge from the Creator When the Creator is acknowledged as the Christian God, the Peyote ritual blends traditional native beliefs and Christianity Perhaps because it provided a powerful alternative to both ancient tribal religions and missionary-controlled versions of Christianity, the Peyote religion spread like wildfire The Peyote meeting is a genuinely intertribal institution Reservations established in Indian Territory, which subsequently became the State of Oklahoma, containing tribes that had formerly been scattered across the country In the early 1880s, after the railroads reached Laredo, Texas, in the heart of the area where Peyote is gathered, the stage was set for rapid communication between Oklahoma tribes and all other Native Americans The railroads made it easier for Native Americans to obtain their sacrament and share their religious traditions.3 The Peyote religion allowed members to establish a new identity, which combined native and Christian elements Except for the secular powwow, Peyote meetings are now the most popular Native American gatherings The rituals of the Native American Church spread rapidly in the years before World War II Faced with the suppression of many traditional rituals, native people welcomed the advent of ceremonies ~ 309 ~