Native American Church

Native American Church
Native American Church's symbol
Type	Syncretic, Religious syncretic
Classification	Native American
Founder	Quanah Parker[citation needed]
Origin	19th century United States
Separations	Big moon peyotism
Members	250,000

The Native American Church (NAC), also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a syncretic Native American religion that teaches a combination of traditional Native American beliefs and elements of Christianity, especially pertaining to the Ten Commandments, with sacramental use of the entheogen peyote.^[1] The religion originated in the Oklahoma Territory (1890–1907) in the late nineteenth century, after peyote was introduced to the southern Great Plains from Mexico.^[1][2][3] Today it is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States (except Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians), Canada (specifically First Nations people in Saskatchewan and Alberta), and Mexico, with an estimated 300,000 adherents.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}