Question: Verdell Primeaux is a Oglala, Yankton/Ponca singer and songwriter in a Church whose religion originated in what U.S. state?
Context: Irene is a city in Clay, Turner, and Yankton counties in the U.S. state of South Dakota.  The population was 437 at the 2010 census.  The portion of Irene that is located in Turner County is a part of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area, the portion located in Yankton County is part of the Yankton Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the portion located in Clay County is part of both the Vermillion Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Sioux City-Vermillion Combined Statistical Area.  Irene is also host to the Irene Rodeo, held every summer. Verdell Primeaux is a Oglala, Yankton/Ponca singer and songwriter in the Native American Church tradition of peyote songs, accompanied by rattle and water drum.  With Johnny Mike (Navajo), they are known as the duo "Primeaux and Mike". Yankton County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,438.  Its county seat is Yankton. The Native American Church (NAC), also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a Native American religion that teaches a combination of traditional Native American beliefs and Christianity, with sacramental use of the entheogen peyote.  The religion originated in the U.S. State of Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century after peyote was introduced to the southern Great Plains from Mexico.  Today it is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with an estimated 250,000 adherents as of the late twentieth century. Persecution of Christians can be traced historically based on the biblical account of Jesus from the first century of the Christian era to the present day.  Early Christians were persecuted for their faith at the hands of both Jews from whose religion Christianity arose and the Romans who controlled many of the land across which early Christianity was distributed.  Early in the fourth century, the religion was legalized by the Edict of Milan, and it eventually became the State church of the Roman Empire. Southland Christian Church is an evangelical Christian church whose first campus is located in an unincorporated area of Jessamine County, Kentucky, which is just outside Lexington, Kentucky, United States.  The church, which has a Nicholasville mailing address, is located at the corner of U.S. Route 68 (Harrodsburg Road) and Brannon Road.  The church has three additional campuses—one in Danville, one at the former site of Lexington Mall on Richmond Road in Lexington, and in Georgetown north of Lexington.  It is associated with the Christian churches and churches of Christ.  Its current Senior Pastor, Jon Weece, came to the church as a teaching pastor in 2000, and became Lead Follower in 2003. The St. Nicholas Church in Pilot Point, Alaska, in Lake and Peninsula Borough, is a Russian Orthodox church whose historic building was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1980.  The listing included one contributing building (the church) and one contributing object (a bell).  The church, according to one source, was built in 1886; according to another it was built in 1912.  It is "a modest rectangular building", 48.5 x in dimension. The Eritrean Catholic Archeparchy of Asmara, officially the Archeparchy of Asmara (Latin: "Archieparchia Asmarensis" or Latin: "Metropolitana Ecclesia Asmarensis" ), more informally Asmara of the Eritreans, is the metropolitan see of the Metropolitan Eritrean Catholic Church, a "sui iuris" Eastern Catholic Church whose territory corresponds to that of the State of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.  It depends on the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. St. Anne's Church (German: "St.-Annen-Kirche" ) in Annaberg-Buchholz, German Free State of Saxony, is a hall church whose architectural style is on the boundary between the Late Gothic and Renaissance.  With a length of 65 metres and width of 40 metres, it is the largest, true hall church of the Late Gothic in Saxony.  Its tower is 78 metres high, the interior of the church 28 metres high.  It is the emblem of the town and visible from a long way off.  Saint Anne's was originally built in 1499 as a Roman Catholic church, but became Evangelical-Lutheran in 1539. The United Church of Bacon is an atheist parody church whose main goals are social progress and raising money for other charities, founded in 2010, by atheist John Whiteside and a group of friends.  The church offers all kinds of traditional religious services including weddings, baptisms and funerals.  Its founder chose a strange name for the church, and its belief in Bacon, as a social critique that all churches have strange beliefs, seen from the outside.  The church opposes special privileges to religions on the grounds that religious people are somehow superior to inferior people for having strange beliefs.  The church promotes separation of church and state, science education and critical thinking, and an end to discrimination against atheists.  The official symbol of the organization is a piece of bacon on a pair of praying hands with sun in the background.
Answer: Oklahoma