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Opening Paths: A Panel with Wixarika Professionals

Wixarika Research Center
| March 2025

The Wixarika Research Center cordially invites the public to our annual webinar to raise money for our scholarship program for Wixarika undergraduate students. Since 2018, we have supported more than 60 students from different programs of study and communities. This panel brings together three Wixarika youth who benefited from our scholarship program: Carlos Carrillo, Hermelindo López, and Alma Robles. The conversation will be moderated by Juan Aurelio Carrillo Ríos from the Autonomous University of Nayarit. Live translation to English will provided by WRC's Diana Negrín.

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Spring 2025 Scholarship Fundraiser

Alejandro Ut+wa Cosío
| March 2025

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Tamaatsi Páritsika students build a stone wall around their new campus 2024

Fall / Winter Newsletter 2024

Wixárika Research Center
| November 2024
We are excited to bring you our fall newsletter with some highlights from our last several months of work. Founded in 2001 by Juan and Yvonne Negrín, the Wixarika Research Center has dedicated more than twenty years to the preservation, digitization, and dissemination of the extensive archive that the Negrins collected over four decades.
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Anguiano y Ramírez 2024

The Women Artists of the Wixarika or Huichol People of Mexico

Marina Anguiano y Claudia Hernández Ramírez
| January 2024

The Huichol or Wixárika people are one of the 68 original populations that make up the multicultural nation called Mexico. Various foreign and Mexican researchers have considered the Huichol or Wixaritári an artist society. At the beginning they made ritual and utilitarian objects of great plastic beauty, which during the last 70 years have not ceased to have these functions. However, currently they have also undergone a commercialization process.

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Mexican human rights and Wixárika delegates observe the passing of egg cargo from the new industrial plants. Photography by Author, 2022.

Why Land and Ecology Matter for Global Psychedelics

Diana Negrín da Silva, PhD
| February 2024
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.’
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Mesquite pod. Photograph © Yolitzma Rebollar 2023 All rights reserved.

Newsletter "Meeting of the Alliance for the Regeneration of the Altiplano-Wirikuta"

Wixárika Research Center
| August 2023
From July 12th through July 14th, 2023, a third face-to-face meeting was held in the Las Margaritas ejido with the participation of various organizations and with the purpose of promoting the ecological, economic, and social well-being of the Altiplano Potosi, also known as Wirikuta to the Wixárika people. The Wixárika Research Center oversaw general coordination, that included invitations to Wixárika communities and inhabitants of the Altiplano region, as well as some delegates Sonora and Jalisco who were invited to participate to share their environmental work.  
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Wirikuta - Fotografía ©Juaquin Urrutia 2021

Water and Power in Wirikuta

Diana Negrín
| September 2021
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.
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Featured Artwork

The Transcendental Vision of Tatutsí Xuweri Timaiwe’eme (Our Great-Grandfather Who Was Self-Created and Found Knowing Everything)

The Transcendental Vision of Tatutsí Xuweri Timaiwe’eme (Our Great-Grandfather Who Was Self-Created and Found Knowing Everything)

"In the early times many things had to come out of Tatutsi Timaiweme (our Great-grandfather who was created and found knowing everything), so that this world could live from his memory, Life comes from there; it is in that way that we recognize the world."

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