"President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken decisive steps toward the restitution of ancestral lands to the Wixárika people in a historic process that seeks to repair decades of dispossession and agrarian conflict in the border region between Jalisco and Nayarit.

The Wixárika, sometimes known as the Huichol, are an Indigenous group primarily from the state of Jalisco. They mainly live in the municipalities of Mezquitic, Bolaños, and to a lesser extent, Huejuquilla. According to official figures, this area is home to approximately 14,300 Wixárikas.

"Bianca América Enríquez López o Tanima, as her grandparents called her in Wixarika, was born in Bajío del Tule, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán. Tanima grew up experiencing the community assemblies and that inspired her first concerns over the rights of Indigenous peoples. With Perimetral, Tanima shares her personal story and her new role in the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples where she was named a delegate." 

With all of their wealth, the voices of  Rubí Tsanda Huerta, Nadia Ñuu Savi, Susi Bentzulul, Sitlali Xaurima Chino and Zara Monrroy, here together, are just a small example of the expansiveness, diversity and beauty of a literature that is many literatures at once. 

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