El Centro INAH Nayarit, el Museo Regional de Nayarit y el XLII Ayuntamiento de Tepic invitan a la presentación del libro.

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Mothers pushing baby carriages, grandmothers and grandfathers in their 70s and even a man in a wheelchair joined the ranks of the 200 Indigenous Wixárika people making their way nearly 1,000 kilometers along the sweltering highways of México in a generations-long battle to recover their stolen lands. The Wixárika Caravan for Dignity and Justice departed from the Western Sierra Madre on April 25 and has been walking ever since, camping alongside the highway and rising at dawn to carry on.

Los constituyentes mexicanos decretaron que la justicia en el país sería gratuita y expedita, aspiración que casi nunca se corresponde con la realidad y mucho menos para los pueblos originarios de esta nación.

1.El 23 de marzo, algunos representantes de centros ceremoniales, autoridades tradicionales y comuneros wixaritari de Jalisco, Nayarit y Durango llegaron a Palacio Nacional en la Ciudad de México a que los recibiera el presidente. Le pidieron respeto a sus sitios sagrados, en particular el que se encuentra en Wirikuta en San Luis Potosí. Le saludaron y le mostraron respeto a su investidura y la de su esposa.

Wirikuta es la flor de la conciencia universal de la vida, es el epicentro donde nacen los acuerdos que renuevan el espíritu de todo lo creado. Wirikuta es un espacio profundo repleta de libros que contienen de como se origino el mundo, los libros medicinales que sanan el corazón y fortalecen el lazo que nos borda como flores en una gran serpiente rio de luz que no tienen ni principio ni final. 

On September 22, 2021, six young Wixarika men between the ages of 16 and 32 were “disappeared” from a road that runs along the sinuous border between the western Mexican states of Jalisco and Zacatecas. Relatives and friends confirm that the young men had gone to carry out a traditional deer hunt. Within days, four of the six bodies were found bearing the marks of torture that are all too common in a country that acts as a hub for organized crime serving its northern neighbor’s notorious appetite for drugs.

It is that time of year again, when, since time immemorial, the Wixárika people are preparing their offerings. The candles of life, the chaquira gourd bowls, the God’s eyes, the prayer arrows. They are beginning to retrace the arduous journey of their ancestors, carried out every year in sacred reciprocity for the gift of life. 

The Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico boasts vast forests that are home to Indigenous communities such as the Wixárika people (or Huichols). Across the largest forest reserves in Jalisco, just three communities are spread across an area of more than 400,000 hectares (988,421 acres), equivalent to one-fifth the size of El Salvador. But this natural wealth is not reflected in the residents’ living conditions. Now, several stakeholders are coming together to help change this narrative.

On the morning of July 31, 2021, a group of 40 people assembled in the hamlet of Las Margaritas in the sacred land of Wirikuta, in the high plateaus of the Chihuahuan Desert of north-central Mexico. Local farmers in cowboy hats and baseball caps gathered alongside young indigenous Wixárika women and men who had come from their communities in the western states of Jalisco and Nayarit. There were also a dozen non-local and foreign attendees who happened to be in Margaritas or who had put down roots and established homes and working relations in the region.

TEOTIHUACÁN, Mexico —  On December 18, Mexico City and neighboring Mexico State entered a weeks-long coronavirus lockdown for the first time since the spring. The next evening, I hid in a sleeping bag surrounded by people vomiting in a small park near the famed Teotihuacán pyramids outside the capital, as dozens consumed the psychedelic peyote cactus at a clandestine ceremony.

Before nurse Rocio Echevarría founded Casa Huichol in Guadalajara to shelter members of Jalisco’s Wixáritari who had family in the public hospital, there was usually one option available to the hospitalized person’s loved ones.

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.

We hope you have all been well and are off to a good start this fall. The rains were generous in the sierras this year and it looks like the harvests of corn, beans and squash will be bountiful, although in some areas it rained so much that some corn and squash rotted. 

El altiplano potosino y la Sierra de Catorce conforman una región con un valor biocultural, como pocas en el mundo. Ahí está representada la mayor parte de las especies de flora y fauna silvestres de todo el desierto chihuahuense; concentra la biodiversidad de cactáceas más importante en el mundo.

La obra del artista wixárika Yucaye Kukame, José Benítez Sánchez, se conoce en todo el mundo. A través de sus cuadros de estambre o nierika (cuyo significado es complejo y profundo), la cosmogonía de esta etnia indígena se exhibió en más de 40 exposiciones en distintos países.

Estando reunidas y reunidos en la localidad de Estación Catorce, San Luis Potosí, representantes ejidales y habitantes de las localidades de la región, nos pronunciamos enérgicamente para que de manera inmediata sean respetados nuestros derechos humanos a la salud, al agua y a un medio ambiente sano.

There are 73 mining projects within natural protected areas in Mexico, one in a Unesco heritage site, but they are allowed to operate due to a law which defines mineral extraction as a public good.