Conservation | Ipci Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative Home Spiritual Homesite Projects About The Medicine More Empowering Indigenous communities to reconnect with regenerate and conserve our sacred Peyote medicine Peyote is an ancestral Medicine a revered plant utilized in ritual and Indigenous identity for thousands of years and came to the northern tribes at a time of peak colonial devastation providing healing and cultural resiliency. Peyote has been an integral part of Native American survival. Decline in Peyote populations has been reported since the late 19th century and have continued to worsen in recent decades. How can we recreate a direct connection to our medicine.