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A welcome sign written in several different Native American languages at the entrance to the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite, led by several leaders within the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, left, and Miriam Volat, executive director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and co-director of the RiverStyx Foundation, look for peyote, a cactus and sacred plant medicine utilized in ceremony by members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Adrian Primeaux, of the Yankton Sioux and Apache, opens the gates to a peyote nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Sandor Iron Rope, Oglala Lakota tribe member, president of the Native American Church of South Dakota and Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative board member, looks for seeds from a peyote plant, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Comanche Nation Chief, Quanah Parker, in 1909. Parker played a major role in creating the Native American Church, whose members use peyote in spiritual ceremony. (Library of Congress via AP)
Adrian Primeaux, of the Yankton Sioux and Apache, stands in the peyote nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, a spiritual homesite and peyote conservation site for Native American Church members on 605 acres of land in the peyote gardens of South Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024, in Hebbronville, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A sign leading to the tipi grounds at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
This photo provided by the Library of Congress shows a Cheyenne Peyote leader in 1927. (Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress via AP)
The offering garden at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Yankton Sioux and Apache tribal member Adrian Primeaux, stands for a portrait at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, a spiritual homesite and peyote conservation site for Native American Church members on 605 acres of land in the peyote gardens of South Texas, Monday, March 25, 2024, in Hebbronville, Texas. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Miriam Volat, executive director of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and co-director of The River Styx Foundation, examines young peyote plants in the nursery at IPCI in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Peyote plants growing in the nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Members of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and various chapters of the Native American Church and ABNDN, Azee Bee Nahgha of Diné Nation, look for peyote growing in the wild, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Peyote plants growing in the nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A peyote plant blooms while growing in the nursery at the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative homesite in Hebbronville, Texas, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Peyote growing in the wild on the 605 acres of land run by the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, which is led by several members of the Native American Church, in Hebbronville, Texas, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)