The Native American Church is a religious body composed of Indians from several tribes mainly in the southwest United States.在美洲土著教会是一个宗教组织组成的印度人从几个部落，主要集中在西南美国。 The church combines some teachings of traditional Christianity with the sacramental use of the drug Peyote.教会结合一些教义的基督教传统与圣使用的药物peyote 。 Peyote induces abnormal mental states or hallucinations when chewed, giving the user a sense of direct contact with God. peyote诱使异常心理状态或幻觉时，嚼了，使用户的感觉直接接触神。 The church's peyote ceremony is an all - night ritual.教会的peyote仪式是一个-夜间的例行公事。 Since the turn of the century efforts have been made to curtail the use of peyote in this ritual, and in 1990 the US Supreme Court ruled that it is not unconstitutional to prosecute church members for possession of peyote.自从世纪之交，已作出努力，以减少使用peyote在这个仪式，并在1990年，美国最高法院作出判决，认为这是不违宪的起诉教会成员藏peyote 。 The movement began about 1890 among the Kiowa Indians but soon spread.运动开始约1890年间，美军印度人，但不久即蔓延。 Since 1918 the Native American Church has been formally incorporated in several Western states.自1918年美洲土著教会已被正式纳入了一些西方国家。 It is loosely organized, however, and lacks reliable membership figures.它是松散的组织，但是，缺乏可靠的会员数字。
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参考书目：
DF Aberle, The Peyote Religion among
the Navajo (1982); EF Anderson, Peyote (1980); OC Stewart, Peyote Religion
(1987) and Peyotism in the West (1984).测aberle ， peyote宗教之间的纳瓦霍人（ 1982年）
;英法安德森， peyote （ 1980年） ;胡椒斯图尔特， peyote宗教（ 1987年）和peyotism在西方（ 1984 ） 。
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