We are pleased to announce the call for the third generation of scholarships 2020-2021 for Wixárika University students. This scholarship aims to help students with various university-related expenses such as school supplies and books, food, lodging or transportation. This year, the Wixárika Research Center, the International Friendship Club and VCEP will offer scholarships of $6,000 pesos for undergraduate students who have completed their first year of studies.

     Hello, my name is Xóchitl Xitlalic Chanes Aguilar, a student of the Autonomous University of Nayarit, and a native of the Indigenous community of Rosa Morada, Nayarit. In my experience, I think it is important to support Indigenous youth who are low income because sadly we are the most vulnerable population but also one that has the most desire to move ahead.

MEXICAN WATER, Ariz. —  For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American religion from extinction means preserving those diminishing lands where hallucinogenic peyote grows wild. “It’s a small but important step toward realizing a prophecy,” said the 61-year-old. Preservation also means battling activists in the California Bay Area and other cities who want to legalize consumption of the psychedelic cactus. “To these outsiders, we say, ‘Leave peyote alone. Please,’” Benally said. “Is that too much to ask?”

Mezquitic, Jalisco, February 2020.-  A historic day was lived in the ceremonial center of Las Latas, municipality of Mezquitic, in the indigenous community of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, where the ancestral culture has been preserved, where its girls and boys They communicate in the Wixárika language and women and men wear their colorful clothing on a daily basis. It is here that the wise elders are venerated, the territory is preserved with its sacred places and the universe is respected.

Guadalajara, Jalisco.-A propósito de la exposición Grandes maestros del arte wixárika que se exhibe en el ahora llamado Museo Cabañas, rescatamos parte de una entrevista realizada en 1985 a Juan Negrín, quien coleccionó las obras de varios artistas wixárikas, entre ellos José Benítez Sánchez, muchas de las cuales ahora se presentan. Cabe señalar que en ese tiempo se usaba indistintamente los términos wiráxika y huichol para referirse a esa etnia.

“Grandes maestros del arte wixárika. Acervo Juan Negrín” es una exposición que estará en el Museo Cabañas. “La belleza de la colección es grandiosa, pero el que lo podamos compartir comprendiendo que no sólo es una cultura viva, sino que es un patrimonio que no pertenece únicamente a quienes lo producen, sino que es patrimonio de México, lograremos avanzar para tener más elementos para su comprensión” señaló en rueda de prensa Giovana Jaspersen García, Secretaria de Cultura de Jalisco.