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Shaman's Drum ~ Spring 1990

The Peyote Plant and Ceremony

James Mooney
| April 1990
From its early origins among the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche, peyotism developed into a major religious movement during the 1880s and 1890s when it spread rapidly among the many tribes that had been relocated into Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Then, in a strange quirk of fate, the very government boarding schools that sought to destroy Indian culture became instrumental in disseminating this new nativistic Pan-Indian spiritual movement; they nourished new intertribal friendships and introduced a new intertribal language - English. Soon the new peyote rituals appeared on reservation after reservation across the country.
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Foto: Marconi González

Opposition to a Lumber Contract

Siglo XXI
| January 1990
Dos de las tres poblaciones que integran la Unión de Comunidades Indígenas Huicholas de Jalisco (UCIHJ) se oponen a que el empresario maderero Enrique Niembro, lleve a cabo el aprovechamiento del bosque mediante un contrato "ilegal" celebrado con algunos dirigentes indígenas de San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán, sin el consentimiento de la asamblea general.
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Pilgrimage to Wirikuta

Pilgrimage to the Peyote

El Informador
| March 1989
The Huichol celebrate several religious festivals during the year related to the agricultural cycle. These festivals have the purpose of maintaining "The Custom", as they say, of complying with the gods just as their ancestors did so that life continues, and only in this way are they protected from all disease, obtain abundant rains, and have good harvests.
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Solicitud a ADESMO de un Taller Carpintería para la Comunidad de Guadalupe Ocotán ~ 26 de junio 1988

Comunidad Indígena de Guadalupe Ocotán, Nayarit
| June 1988
Las autoridades y comuneros de esta comunidad indígena queremos ante esta asociación solicitar la participación en sus diferentes actividades para promover el desarrollo de este lugar, según han manifestado, sus áreas de trabajo serán, la creación de un taller carpintería con la debida capacitación de los que se integren a tales trabajos, otra actividad en la cual estuviera dispuesto apoyar tal asociación sería la creación de un taller de telas también con su debida capacitación y/o adiestramiento: estás actividades serían para nuestra comunidad un beneficio sin precedentes ya que se ha manifestado la escasez de los trabajos y estos serían fuentes de trabajo.
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Solicitud a ADESMO de vehículo para Taller de Carpintería y Telar - 23 de junio de 1988

Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán
| June 1988
Los que suscriben los CC. Marcelino Robles Domínguez, Antonio Bautista Domínguez, Benito Carrillo Robles Gobernador Tradicional, Presidente de Bienes Comunales y Consejo de Vigilancia respectivamente, con el fin de solicitar una camioneta para taller de carpintería y telar de Taller Escuela ubicada en la comunidad de Nueva Colonia, la presente petición con acuerdo del taller de carpintería, y taller de telar arriba mencionada.
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¿Estamos ya en pleno etnocidio?

Are we in a full ethnocide?: Traditional Indigenous Arts and Crafts Decline Precipitously

Samuel Correa Muñoz
| January 1987

Article written for Excelsior's magazine, Jueves, about the exhibit of Wixarika art at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, 1987.

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Spirit of peyote

Special Color Issue on Huichols

| January 1986

In 1986, Shaman's Drum, dedicated an issue to Wixarika art and spirituality, featuring an archival article from Norwegian ethnologist, Carl Lumholtz, an interview with Wixarika mara'akame Ulu Temay, and a text written by U.S. anthropologist, Susan Valadez (née Eger).

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Portfolio The magazine of the visual arts

Sacred Colors of the Huichols

Fred Strebeight
| April 1979
"The images have the crude ferocity of ancient mythology: warriors brandish their weapons at fleeing victims; immense deities loom over their worshipers: otherworldly beats roam fantastic gardens.  Produced by pressing brightly colored yarn onto waxed wooden panels, these images indeed have their sources in centuries-old tradition. But the art in which they appear, practiced by a small group of México´s Huichol Indians and known as yarn painting, is in fact the product of a unique collaboration between the descendants of an ancient culture and the world of modern anthropology."
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Plan Lerma-Operación Huicot

Plan Lerma, Operación Huicot

Mexican Government, Interamerican Development Bank, various other Mexican state agencies
| May 1966

Complete document for the Plan Lerma-Operación Huicot, named as a reference to its intervention in the region occupied by the nombrado Huichol (Wixárika), Cora (Na'ayeri) and Tepehuan (O'dam) peoples. The Plan Huicot was the first major government infrastructure project in the Western Sierra Madre and was based on the Indigenista state ideology and its "Indigenista action plans" that sought to assimilate Indigenous peoples through schools, roads and small markets run by the government. 

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