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The peyote cult

Note 13 — PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PEYOTISM

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Skinner, Societies of the Iowa, 725; Radin, Crashing Thunder, 177; A Sketch of the Peyote Cult, 5-6, 19-20; The Winnebago Tribe, 395; Densmore, The Peyote Cult; Winnebago Songs of the Peyote Ceremony. Confession is present in Iowa, Oto, and Winnebago peyotism. But I have noted non-peyote instances of public confession among Aztecs, Aurohuaca, Carrier, Chichimeca, Crow, Dogrib, Eskimo, Guatemaltecans, Huichol, Ijca, Inca, Iroquois, Maya, Nicarao, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa, Salteaux, Shawnee, Slave, Tahltan, Western Apache, Yellowknife, and Yucatecans. Related practices are reported for the Arikara, Blackfoot, Southern Cheyenne, Oglala, and Sarsi.

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