Description:
A Culture's Catalyst revives a historical debate, encouraging us to reconsider how peyote has been understood and the Canadian government's attitudes toward Indigenous religious and cultural practices.
Brief description: Erika Dyck is a historian of health, medicine, and Canadian society at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research has concentrated on the history of mental health, institutionalization, and experimentation.
Review Quotes: "An extraordinary and unreservedly recommended study."--Helen Dumont "Midwest Book Review"