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May 19, 2011 • Comments Closed Wirikuta is in the state of San Luis Potosi and Zacatecas, in central northern Mexico. It is one of the most important sacred natural sites of the Wixaritari (Huichol) indigenous people. The Wixaritari are native of Jalisco, Nayarit y Durango in the sierra Madre. They are recognized in Mexico and Latin America because they have preserved and continue to practice...
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May 16, 2011 • Comments Closed A delegation of representatives of the Wixarika People travel to Vancouver, Canada, this week, home base of the mining company First Majestic Silver Corp., which plans to open a mine on their most sacred site, Wirikuta. The delegates plan to make their case to the public, to members of Parliament and to the mining company...
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May 2, 2011 • The Mining Justice Alliance, a grassroots network of activists and organizations, is planning a week of action, art and education from May 14-19 to bring attention to the social and environmental impacts of Vancouver-based mining companies. More and more Canadians are raising concerns over the impacts of mining, in solidarity with affected communities. We feel...
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May 2, 2011 • Tim Harvey, 2 March 2011, The Tyee A Vancouver-based company, First Majestic Silver Corp, has ignited fierce controversy over plans to mine silver from a mountain considered by an indigenous nation to be the birthplace of the sun. The Huichol called the Canadian mining project an “unlawful imposition” and part of a “a deepening war...
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May 2, 2011 • Written by Darcy Tetreault April 1, 2011/Upside-Down World Every year, the Wixarika (Huichol) indigenous people of central west México walk 500 km to the sacred land of Wirikuta, where according to legend, the sun was born. Here, they collect jíkuri (peyote), carry out rituals of purification and come into communion with their gods, who give...
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May 2, 2011 • By Lisa North Canadian Dimensions magazine, Jan./Feb. 2011 Last Year Alone, at least five opponents of Canadian mining projects were assassinated in Latin America: three in El Salvador, one in Guatemala, and one in Mexico. Critics of mining operations there and elsewhere were wounded and maimed in attacks while many, along with their family members,...
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May 2, 2011 • For more than 1,000 years, the Wixárika (we-SHA-re-ka) people have made pilgrimages from their ceremonial centers in the Sierra Madre Mountains across the Chihuahua desert to Leunar, the sacred mountain where the sun first rose. The Wixárika (also known as Huichol) pilgrims traverse over 300 miles to reach Leunar, stopping to give offerings and prayers...
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Apr 28, 2011 • By Tracy L. Barnett Translation by Yvonne Negrin Feb. 18, 2011 MIRANDO CITY, TEXAS – It was an unforgettable meeting of cultures: Lakota and Navajo, Chippewa and Cree, Coahuiltecan and Chichimecan and more, joining hearts and minds wth their Wixaritari brothers in a hogan in South Texas. “Never in my life did I imagine that...
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Apr 26, 2011 • By Tracy L. Barnett The Esperanza Project December 30, 2010 REAL DE CATORCE, San Luis Potosí, México – Rodolfo Cosio prays he’s not the last generation of a dying tradition. As a jicarero, he is one of the keepers of the ancient pilgrimage of the Wixaritari or Huichol people of western Mexico. Each year...
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Apr 25, 2011 • By Tracy L. Barnett The Esperanza Project, Dec. 13, 2010 CANCUN – “Arriving at the ocean is very important; you can’t just walk up to it like it’s a common thing,” Antonio told us as we bumped along through the night on our way to Isla Blanca. “We consider the sea to be sacred; we...
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