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President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken decisive steps toward the restitution of ancestral lands to the Wixárika people in a historic process that seeks to repair decades of dispossession and agrarian conflict in the border region between Jalisco and Nayarit.

The Wixarika Research Center cordially invites the public to our annual webinar to raise money for our scholarship program for Wixarika undergraduate students. Since 2018, we have supported more than 60 students from different programs of study and communities. This panel brings together three Wixarika youth who benefited from our scholarship program: Carlos Carrillo, Hermelindo López, and Alma Robles. The conversation will be moderated by Juan Aurelio Carrillo Ríos from the Autonomous University of Nayarit. Live translation to English will provided by WRC's Diana Negrín.

We are excited to bring you our fall newsletter with some highlights from our last several months of work. Founded in 2001 by Juan and Yvonne Negrín, the Wixarika Research Center has dedicated more than twenty years to the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of the extensive archive that the Negrins collected over four decades.

The 18th through the 20th centuries easily mark one of the most significant periods in human and environmental history, as Western European imperial expansion and settler colonialism incentivized the study and the incorporation of the botanical wonders found in what often came to be labeled as ‘the tropics.’

From July 12th through July 14th, 2023, a third face-to-face meeting was held in the Las Margaritas ejido with the participation of various organizations and with the purpose of promoting the ecological, economic, and social well-being of the Altiplano Potosi, also known as Wirikuta to the Wixárika people. The Wixárika Research Center oversaw general coordination, that included invitations to Wixárika communities and inhabitants of the Altiplano region, as well as some delegates Sonora and Jalisco who were invited to participate to share their environmental work.  

When it rains in the high plateaus of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, the dampened earth releases a scent that showcases its unique biodiversity. During the rainy season, greasewood bushes, mesquites, yucca and a wide variety of cacti flower and give their fruits, while the locals plant their cornfields that grow according to the nourishment they receive from the seasonal rainfall.