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 The most widespread religion at the present time is known as the Native American Church. It is a syncretistic church incorporating elements of native spiritual practice from a number of different tribes as well as it has symbolic elements from Christianity. Its main ritual is the peyote ceremony. The church has had success in combating many of the ills brought by colonization, like alcoholism and crime. In the American Southwest, a syncretism between the Catholicism was brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly a part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.

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