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Feb 14, 2013 • Comments Closed PRESS RELEASE Mexico City. February 7, 2013. WIRIKUTA SACRED PLACE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE WIXARIKA PEOPLE AND TO HUMANITY CONTINUES TO BE SERIOUSLY THREATENED BY THE IMPUNITY OF MINING AND AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. • Despite attempts to divide us, the Wixarika people maintain a single voice: “The cancellation of all mining concessions.” And they...
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Feb 28, 2012 • Comments Closed RECENT TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON THE Wirikuta CASE The Tamatsima Wahaa Front for the Defense of Wirikuta reiterates once again that Wirikuta is not confined to specific sites where the Wixarika people deliver their offerings, but Wirikuta is the full collection of stones, springs, cactus, snakes, scenery, etc., comprised in a continuous stretch of land over...
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Feb 15, 2012 • Comments Closed The Washington Post, February 13th, William Booth REAL DE CATORCE, Mexico — For the Huichol Indians, the desert mountains here are sacred, a cosmic portal with major mojo, where shamans collect the peyote that fuels the waking dreams that hold the universe together. For a Canadian mining company, these same hills look like a billion...
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Jan 19, 2012 • Comments Closed There is widespread concern that the Canadian mining company First Majestic will destroy an area in northern Mexico that is sacred to the Wixárika (Huichol) Indians. In fact, late last year over 150 internationally known writers and artists made a direct plea to Mexican President Felipe Calderon, urging him to cancel mining concessions that...
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Dec 24, 2011 • Comments Closed December 14, 2011 2:37 PM EST Revolution Resources Corp. is pleased to report that it has signed a formal option agreement with Lake Shore Gold Corp. to acquire up to 100% of Lake Shore Gold’s four large properties in Mexico formerly held by West Timmins Mining Inc. (Lake Shore Gold acquired West Timmins Mining in...
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Dec 6, 2011 • Comments Closed Huichol Art Sale and Auction at 25th anniversary MAPS Conference in Oakland Marriot City Center, Dec 8th to 12th, 2011. Conference Website- http://www.maps.org/conference/25/ Conference Fb event -http://www.facebook.com/events/204264342954590/ The Huichol people are an indigenous group in Mexico that are unique in their way of living in a deep respectful relation with life and nature. They currently live...
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Nov 1, 2011 • Comments Closed (IPS) – Some 200 Wixáritari or Huichol men, women and children travelled 20 hours from western Mexico to the capital to defend their sacred ceremonial sites from silver mining. Dressed in their colourful traditional attire, the demonstrators came from their mountain villages in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango to hold protests...
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Oct 25, 2011 • Comments Closed To the editors, reporters and columnists of the national and international media and to the public in general. The Wixarika Regional Council via the Wirikuta Defense Front of Tamatsima Waha’a has the honor to invite you to this Press Conference which will take place at the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Center for Human Rights, on...
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Oct 22, 2011 • Comments Closed Mexican film personalities, from the Morelia International Film Festival, pronounced themselves in support of the defense of Wirikuta and added themselves to the call for mobilization on Oct. 26 and 27. Among the signers: Gael Garcia Bernal, Ursula Pruneda, Paula Astorga, Leo Heiblum, José Maria de Tavira, Ana Claudia Talancón, Cuauhtémoc Cardenas Batel, Felipe...
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Oct 22, 2011 • Comments Closed Dear friends and supporters of the Wixarika struggle to save their sacred lands, The Wixarika Regional Council and the Wirikuta Defense Front have issued a call to action and are organizaing a mass mobilization in Mexico City on Oct. 26-27. They would welcome your support in getting their message out and in organizing support actions...
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Jul 22, 2011 • Comments Closed Alberto Hernandez Gonzales, a Huichol guardian of Wirikuta. Photo by José Luis Aranda. A Canadian company plans to mine for silver in the heart of Mexico’s peyote country. For the Huichol people, the project is an environmental risk – and a spiritual crisis. By Dawn Paley Photos by José Luis Aranda THIS Magazine http://this.org/magazine/2011/09/15/first-majestic-silver-wirikuta/...
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Jul 13, 2011 • Comments Closed The Franks Landing Indian Community, located in Washington State near the Nisqually River, has long struggled to retain and exercise Indigenous sovereignty. The community makes alliances and supports other Indigenous peoples’ efforts to excise sovereignty and protect their territories and the resources within. Recently Franks Landing Indian Community met with the Wixaritari of Mexico, responding to...
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