{"id":7818,"date":"2020-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solkes.com\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2020-10-28T07:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:38:40","slug":"we-are-all-indigenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solkes.com\/en\/leaving-a-mark\/2020\/10\/we-are-all-indigenia\/","title":{"rendered":"We are all Indigenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\" style=\"color: #138a8d;\">A<\/span>ll Latin American, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, come from different cultures. We re a mixture of cultures, of knowledge, nationalities, we are mixed- raced. And, we are mixed \u2013 raced because when the colonization took place and after it, Europeans meshed with natives. How ever, there are native cultures that resisted change, that did not allow the influence of capitalism, by the need to consume more and more, by wars, by the prostitution of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><strong>M\u00e9xico<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><a style=\"color: #138a8d;\" href=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/en\/a-converstaion-withh-guido-floyd\/\">Mexico<\/a><\/span><\/strong> wasn&#8217;t the exception to this cultural and world blend. It is the the fifth largest country in the Americas, the fourteenth largest country in the world, the eleventh most populous with 118 million people, Spanish is their official language and recognize 67 indigenous languages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8908\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8908\" src=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_03-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_03-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_03-299x480.jpg 299w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_03.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of this native cultures is the Wix\u00e1rika. They have resisted, they have kept all ties to their traditions. They are indigenous people of Mexico, living in the in the central western part of the country, mainly in the states of <span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #138a8d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jalisco.gob.mx\">Jalisco<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nayaritenamora.mx\"><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Nayarit<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and parts of <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><a style=\"color: #138a8d;\" href=\"http:\/\/visitdurango.mx\/#!\/\">Durango<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitmexico.com\/estados\/zacatecas\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Zacatecas<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Furthermore, each of its communities is autonomous, they have their own civil and religious authorities.<\/p>\n<p>For the Wix\u00e1rika, the civilian authority is governed by totohuani and it is renewed on a yearly basis. Additionally, the maraakates o maraakanes, priests, are responsible for keeping and maintaining their traditions.<\/p>\n<p>They, have kept their central activity which is based upon their religious tradition. It centers in the gathering and consumption of the h\u00edkuri. They maintain an oral history, passed on from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><strong>Capitalist ambitions<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Until here, everything seems ok. But, as expected so much harmony and beauty could not last forever. Capitalist ambition has decided that they want to take away their territory, make them go away, take away what belongs to them since centuries ago just to fill their pockets with money.<\/p>\n<p>In order to sell this lands they have to get rid of the people. \u201cThat is what the mexican government is doing: they displace people, kill and incarcerate them, deny them basic health care. In two years, this government has put 8 million indigenous people behind bars\u201d, <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Beatriz Paz<\/span><\/strong>, the co founder of Indigenia, explained outraged. At the moment there are 56 indigenous groups; between them, the mixed \u2013 raced and migrants, well this makes Mexico a world cultural power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_left\">\n<h4><strong>\u201cIt has 80% of the cactus diversity of the world, silver, amber and the h\u00edkuri, peyote, that although it grows in some parts of North America, is let&#8217;s say, endemic of this region.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be exact, eight years ago, a group of Canadian mining companies that have subsidiaries in Mexico have wanted and realized more than eleven thousand tests to buy this lands. And, this is extremely delicate because they only live in four states of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Rituals<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Every two months they have sacred rituals and once a year they make a pilgrimage to the dessert to eat h\u00edkuri, peyote, everyone in the community goes.<\/p>\n<p>When they make the pilgrimage they do it from all four states and go to a fifth state where the Wirikuta desert is located, it is a federal reserve, it is protected by the UNESCO and it is recognized as a sacred natural and human heritage site .<\/p>\n<p>So, seeing all that was happening and really worried because of this problem, a group of close and social invested friends created <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><a style=\"color: #138a8d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Indigenia\/\">INDIGENIA<\/a><\/span><\/strong> in 2012. It is a is a trans disciplinary agency that develops models, tools and spaces for cultural interaction between indigenous and global societies. The fist campaign they developed was &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Wix\u00e1rika Mundus. The flight of the blue deer<\/span><\/strong>&#8221; and the idea is to take water to the Wix\u00e1rika community in San Jos\u00e9 del Baj\u00edo en Jalisco.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7833\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7833\" src=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1.jpg 996w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_01-1-320x193.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People who live in San Jos\u00e9 del Baj\u00edo are craftsman that wish to extend their cultural heritage and knowledge as well as having drinkable water. \u201cWith <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">INDIGENIA<\/span><\/strong> I have dedicated myself to generate and share material, imparted some Zin production workshops and talks in cultural and educational centers\u201d, Paz tells me proudly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_left\">\n<h4><strong>\u201c They speak to the fire, to the volcanoes in the middle of the country, with the littoral region, with the northern part of the desert. This means that they have a very strong connection to the land.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Wix\u00e1rika culture, is one of the most secretive and airtight cultures in Mexico, since the Spanish conquest they have maintained isolated in their lands and have not permitted colonization in any form&#8230; \u201calmost a decade ago, a reporter from the USA went in and started taking pictures without any permission, they didn&#8217;t take the camera, or the watch or anything but they killed him because he took pictures without permission and they are a very airtight community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">The consequences<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This mining companies want to buy this land and that means that this ancestral community will no longer have access to the place they have used for pilgrimage during the last thousand years. Where they contacted their forefathers, with future generations and all nature elements.<\/p>\n<p>Given what was taking place, they began coming out. They began asking for help and began talking to others about their culture.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7839\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7839\" src=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1.jpg 996w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_07-1-320x193.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They got divided into three groups: \u201cone of them said: if we want to survive we have to tell others about us so that they can help us even if this means losing a bit of our identity; others said: ok, we&#8217;ll do it but just a bit; and the third group said: we would rather die before leaving our territory and selling out.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_04-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7836\" src=\"http:\/\/ypa.solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2010_04-1-300x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group of indigenous people that work with the organization are from the second group, they want to show the world about their culture but they do not want to loose their identity in the process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<h4><strong>\u201cFor us, it is very important to maintain and preserve this culture not only because they are a part of who we are as a country but because we consider the h\u00edkuri as a part of the world heritage.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8902\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8902\" src=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_02-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_02-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_02-299x480.jpg 299w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_02.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a very important thing because they have been such a culturally airtight community and since all of this problems began many have found a way out in the programs that we have.<\/p>\n<p>For them the h\u00edkuri represents three things, anthropologists have been able to see the connection of evolution with it&#8230; a deer and that represents the hunting society; a corn that represents the agricultural society.<\/p>\n<p>A cactus that gets you high and represents the gathering community, but it is the three of them and in the analysis of their rituals it is noted that they consider the h\u00edkuri those three things.<\/p>\n<p>It has to be noted that not everyone in the community knows has to cut them, they are the \u201cpeyoteros\u201d and this is important because this is a slow growing cactus that only grows in the desert&#8230; and if they cut it wrong it won&#8217;t grow back.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of one of our partners in the foundation, died from dysentery.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, 8 people died in this community, it is a lot given that there are only three families and there are no more than 45 people.<\/p>\n<p>This is extremely dangerous when we say they are an ancestral culture, thousand-year-old and that their only survival method is through people and if eight die, that means a lot of future generations. The Indigenia team came together because of the necessity of the water and because they enjoyed working side by side with the indigenous community.<\/p>\n<p>If this mining companies reach their objective, an entire civilization would come to an end as well as the sustainability of the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_right\">\n<h4><strong>\u201cThe h\u00edkuri, is at the center of this culture and everything revolves around it&#8230; meaning that this culture in unthinkable without the h\u00edkuri.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This region is deserted and to achieve desoxidation and everything they have to place under the land, they would go through the phreatic zone and the water of all the region would be polluted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we chose to help them. They are in extreme need due to the pressure form the mining industries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration with other artist is essential in order to achieve the goal of the foundation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8906\" style=\"width: 996px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8906\" src=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"996\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_05.jpg 996w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_05-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_05-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_05-320x193.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Someone that works with an artistic discipline is identified, they have to be good, they must have certain level.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards they receive an information package with images from this culture in order to absorb and identify with them. \u201cThey give us the art piece, we sell it and the profit goes to the community. First and foremost, to the investigation of water, how to obtain it and have better access to it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">Indigenia<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The first campaign, that <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><a style=\"color: #138a8d;\" href=\"http:\/\/indigenia.org\">Indigenia<\/a><\/span><\/strong> did is for the water. Local artist would showcase their art pieces, inspired on this culture as well as original Wix\u00e1rika art. All of the profits will go to the creation of a water recollection network.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8904\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8904\" src=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_06-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_06-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_06-299x480.jpg 299w, https:\/\/solkes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/indigenia-2010_06.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatriz Paz \u00a9 Solkes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first campaign, had the aim of promoting the art of Tut\u00fa T\u00e9mai (Juan de la Cruz Bautista), member of the Wix\u00e1rika community in San Jos\u00e9 del Baj\u00edo. Tutu&#8217;s community is experiencing very serious problems because of the pressures from capitalist groups. This groups want to take their land away from them, extreme poverty and the drought.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap dropcap2\" style=\"color: #138a8d;\">T<\/span>he Wix\u00e1rika are fighting to defend their community and their land, once more the government wants to impose a big scale project. Obviously, they will be affected, nobody has cared or taken in consideration how this will affect the members of those <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">indigenous people<\/span><\/strong>. They, as indigenous communities, <strong><span style=\"color: #138a8d;\">have a different concept of Mother Earth<\/span><\/strong>. For them, rivers are veins and animals are brothers. <span style=\"color: #138a8d;\"><strong>The only thing that they want is to defend their culture and life<\/strong><\/span>. What they want as an organization is to help this community, defend their heritage, make their voices heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Latin American, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, come from different cultures. We re a mixture of cultures, of knowledge, nationalities, we are mixed- raced. And, we are mixed \u2013 raced because when the colonization took place and after it, Europeans meshed with natives. How ever, there are native cultures that resisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":7833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[622,626,621,628,623,629,624,630,620,631,625,627,632],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leaving-a-mark","tag-ancestry","tag-culture-en","tag-future","tag-history-en","tag-indigenia","tag-jalisco-en","tag-mexico","tag-nayarit","tag-past","tag-ritual-en","tag-traditions-en","tag-wixarika-culture-en","tag-wixarika-mundus-el-vuelo-del-venado-azul-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We are all Indigenia - Solkes Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All Latin American, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, come from different cultures. 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