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Alex Lucitante: Ancestral Science [ENG]
Update: 2025-11-20
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Alex Lucitante (Cofán Indigenous People, Colombia and Ecuador) knows that many Indigenous peoples have been compelled to speak the language of the law in order to be heard. Yet he insists on another language as well: the ancestral science of yagé, which has guided his people for millennia and sustains their relationship with their territory.
The Cofán, known as the People of Yagé, have woven their history around this sacred vine. Alex descends from a lineage that has safeguarded this knowledge and protected it deep within the forest. His mission is to ensure that this science does not fade—to keep it at the center of territorial defense and to help future generations remember that yagé is alive, and that she, too, speaks.
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