At Chacruna: The First Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference (Yubaka Hayrá) in Acre Demonstrates Political, Cultural and Spiritual Resistance

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Daiara Tukano, MA 

Yubaka Hayrá, the first indigenous ayahuasca conference, was held December 14 –17, 2017 in Puyanawa Village, in the municipality of Mâncio Lima, in the State of Acre, Brazil. The event brought together 15 peoples from the region to discuss the relations surrounding the use of ayahuasca today worldwide. Ayahuasca is a traditional medicine for approximately one hundred indigenous groups in the Amazon basin, dispersed across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela[; most of them from the Arawak, Pano, and Tukano linguistic families... continue reading.

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