Wixarika News

Allá en el rancho grande, San Luis Potosí ©Luis Aguilar 2014
05/02/2022

Wirikuta tiene muchos nombres y una entrada. La puerta se nombra Wak+ri kitenie, la puerta del Hermano Mayor Tepehuán, el paso al quinto piso del altar-mundo, nuestro templo.

Fotografía publicado por Referente - Studio 21
04/27/2022

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.

Nopalera en el desierto de Wirikuta, SLP ~ Foto ©Ojarasca, La Jornada
03/23/2022

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.

Cerro Quemado ~ 18 de marzo de 2022
03/19/2022

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. 

Photograph ©Juan Negrín 1980-2022
03/10/2022

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.

Historic Wixárika Ceremony, Cerro Quemado, Feb. 6, 2012. Photo: Tracy L. Barnett
03/08/2022

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. 

Photograph ©Juan Negrín 1980-2022
03/10/2022

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.

Bosques de pino en San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Foto: Agustín Castillo.

Pine forests in San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Image courtesy of Agustín Castillo.

03/03/2022

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.

Bosques de pino en San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Foto: Agustín Castillo.

Pine forests in San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Image courtesy of Agustín Castillo.

03/03/2022

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.

Gerardo Ruiz Smith speaking to those who attended the training in Wirikuta.

Regenerative agriculture expert Gerardo Ruiz Smith, right, is passionate about bringing back keystone species like the giant mesquite that the group stood under as he shared stories and expertise. (Diana Negrín photo)

01/12/2022

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.