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.’

Cada año, miembros del pueblo Wixárika hacen el peregrinaje de 800km desde San Andrés Cohamiata en la Sierra de Jalisco hasta el desierto semi-árido de San Luis Potosí. Su destino es Wirikuta, un lugar sagrado donde, según sus creencias, el mundo fue creado de una gota de agua.

A group of Wixarika women send a letter to the head of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, Nemesio Oceguera Cervantes, to ask for his intervention in the wave of violence and extortions in the northern region of Jalisco.

With all of their wealth, the voices of  Rubí Tsanda Huerta, Nadia Ñuu Savi, Susi Bentzulul, Sitlali Xaurima Chino and Zara Monrroy, here together, are just a small example of the expansiveness, diversity and beauty of a literature that is many literatures at once. 

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My name is Osbaldo Cosío González, I am from the Wixárika community and town of Pueblo Nuevo, Santa Catarina “Tuapurie”, municipality of Mezquitic, Jalisco. I am currently a student at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (CUCS) in the Medical Surgeon-Midwifery program at the University of Guadalajara. The books for this program are very expensive and sometimes I find it difficult to get them.

"The recognition and struggle for the rights of rural women to access land remains a great feat for consolidating and guaranteeing equality of conditions. The structural barriers and the discriminatory social norms still limit the power that rural women have to participate en their own communities. " 

Read the full article written by Xaurima Siitlali Chino Carrillo here.

In recent years, progressive politicians, doctors, community groups and Silicon Valley investors alike have thrown their weight behind decriminalization bills in dozens of US states and cities. Their goal to spread the benefits of psychedelics may be well-intentioned, but for Indigenous Americans, the boom has a dark side that rarely comes up in venture capital pitches. Many Diné tribal members are describing this moment as a “peyote crisis” that threatens to appropriate and commodify their sacred way of life.Their concerns are multifold. Decriminalizing peyote could fuel poaching and a black market for the slow-growing cactus, whose limited habitat is already threatened by climate change and development. A sudden surge in demand might completely wipe out peyote from its natural environment, traditional practitioners say.

The Indigenous Wixárika community of San Sebastián Teponahuxtlán in Nayarit has recovered 2,585 hectares of its ancestral lands – a quarter of the territory it has been struggling to reclaim for nearly 70 years. The transfer took place peacefully after the Presidential Commission for land restitution assembled to address the dispute negotiated compensation with 13 property owners to return the land to its ancestral inhabitants.

En medio del conflicto de potencias, de las humanas contra las naturales y espirituales entre pueblos originarios y mestizos sobre el uso de una cactácea con componentes psicoactivos, se abre un marco propicio para desfavorecer a la planta convertida en droga.

After a monthlong march and three-day campout in front of the National Palace, Wixárika caravan gets presidential audience.