Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-25 | Page 21 | Great God Peyote

GRE GREAT GOD PEYOTE 1 l Continued i Ct from page 3 3 v I te terp tt the physical th n 10 lox logical c al effects of the drug THe Tho Pc Peyote otc gives us a Joyful feeling feeling feel feel- ing said one It gives a sensation that cannot he be described describe Pete Phelps Phe Is a renegade Sioux Indian banished hc l froth his own reser reser- atlon Ho lie has traveled mu much h with shows and is w well ll educated to the ways of the world All AU Peyote used on the Uintah reservation Is imported from fromI I T Texas through Phelps and a collection varying from 1 to 10 from each In Indian Indian In- In dian dlan is t taken ken up at each meeting This mori money y is turned over ove t to Ph Phelps who iWho has told the Indians that he is saving it to buy coffins with and In hi other ways provide for the burial b rial of the Peyote worshipers While we W were were at Ft t. one ne Indian came to the agency office and told Albert Kneale th the Indian agent that he had beaten his wife wite that morn- morn Ing The agent ent Inquired tb the reason and the Indian replied She went to a Peyote camp last night and having taken some of the Peyote be became be- be I camO came crazed tore the cl clothing from h her r body ody and danced about almost naked in the presence of all the others ples present nt I Another Indian told us that it was Vias a common thing to see the Indian women dancing about without clothing during I a Peyote gathering There is not a white while man wom woman n or child on n the tho reservation but who de deI decries decries de- de I cries crieR the ravages of Peyote But their appeals to Congress have been without without with with- lout out avail Congress has failed to act and as time lapses Peyote is taking a firmer grasp oh on its victims The state board of pharmacy will indorse a a bill at the coming session of the legislature which will provide penalties for traffic or use of Peyote and as liS all of the Uintah Indians are amenable to the tate state laws it is hoped that this act If it passed will put a a damper on the drug worship The deep religious an and Idealistic cravings cravings' of the Indians' Indians mind cannot be ke e satisfied with the ordinary things things' of reservation life cannot find satisfaction satisfaction satisfaction tion in sch schools pr or r agriculture When a more wider education providing for forI philosophy and esthetic culture as aswell aswell I well as religion is provided then will I. I begin the more rapid advancement of the Ithe Indian For after all the Indian can be likened to the early as a seeker after religion nothing I else Is involved in the Peyote problem and religion after all is the whole I problem of t the Indian