Huicholes form alliance to fight mining on sacred land

Monday, December 6, 2010

Huicholes form alliance to fight mining on sacred land
By Brenda Norrell
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Photo 1: Huicholes form alliances in Cancun. Copyright Brenda Norrell. Photo 2: Huicholes in Toluca, Mexico. Copyright Robert Free..

CANCUN -- A Canadian mining company is threatening the most sacred place of the Huicholes, where sacred water is found and where prayers are said for the balance of the world.

The Huicholes, who call themselves Wixarika, make pilgrimages to their ceremonial place in the Sierra Madres across the Chihuahua desert to Leunar, their sacred mountain where the sun first rose. A Canadian mining company, First Majestic Silver Corporation, plans to exploit and mine this area. The company is planning to use cyanide to mine the sacred region. This disastrous mining will destroy the ecosystem and the sacred places of the Wixarika.

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