Comments on: Police harass Huicholes during annual pilgrimage

By: JOY!

JOY! — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:16:01 +0000

I filmed an interview about this highway with a Huichol friend in April 2008, I would like to do a followup for Banderasnews.com that includes this extremely comprehensive, thoroughly excellent story.

I am also interested in writing other articles that will help the Huichol, can you direct me to what might be most beneficial?

By: David Scott

David Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:55:53 +0000

I was a member of the Peyote Church in Taos, New Mexico, at the age of six. I took part in Native American Peyote ceremonies. I was the only child at the ceremonies and my mother the only woman. We were the only non-Native Americans that I can remember being there. Check out my stories on growing up in New Mexico during the seventies here: http://dryotamrcnhppkd.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-is-unfortunate-that-we-will-be-able.html

By: Yvonne Negrin

Yvonne Negrin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:31:26 +0000

Hello -
My name is Yvonne and as you may know my husband, Juan Negrin, and I have worked closely with the wixarika people for 40 years. You can find more information regarding the work we have done on our website: http://www.wixarika.org in the section “about us”.
Juan is presently in Guadalajara and working closely with Carlos who is a colleague of ours since the 1980’s. I’m glad to see you posting this information since most of the news we have been posting on our website is in Spanish. I am creating a link to your blog so that our English readers can read about this unfortunate event in Wirikuta. I also wanted to take the opportunity to correct the spelling of our compadre Dionisio’s name in wixarika. It is spelled Uxayucauye.

Once again thank you for posting accurate and important information about what is really going on in the sierras. We need all the help we can get!

Yvonne