10/20/2021
The 💕Huichol Center’s 💕irreplaceable indigenous archive is under threat these days, y’all.
The Center needs help preserving its valuable ethnographic archive from destruction by drug cartels that are now overwhelming the area where the archive resides. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍This from the Center: This is a database of ancient wisdom, fifty years in the making, with over 5,000 irreplaceable items, collected by the Nobel Prize-nominated project, The Huichol Center for Cultural Survival and Traditional Arts (a U.S. 501-c-3.)
The immediate need is to digitally record and catalogue each item and to relocate the entire archive from its current location in Huejuquilla El Alto, Jalisco to San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
Safeguarding the tenets of an ancient tribe in the modern world whose lineage dates back to pre-Columbian times is of the utmost urgency before its shamanic wisdom, plant knowledge, spectacular native arts, language, music and so much more become a casualty of cartel violence.
Why Preserve Ancient Wisdom?
The indigenous Huichol people of Mexico are custodians of a cultural worldview that is fast disappearing from the face of the earth. According to anthropologist Wade Davis, because indigenous cultures are some of the strongest models we have for how to live in harmony with the earth and each other, the loss of these cultures may have consequences that won’t be understood until it is too late to reverse them. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍You can donate at : https://donorbox.org/the-huichol-center-for-cultural-survival-and-traditional-arts. 🤍Photo by