"Kupuri" is a word from the ancient language of the Mexican Wixárika Indians, meaning 'the power to follow your heart path to completion.'

Indigenous peoples around the world are crying out for the recognition of their identities, ways of life and rights to traditional lands, territories and natural resources. Yet their rights are continuously being violated. Indigenous peoples are now inarguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world today.

Worldwide indigenous and tribal peoples are facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples. Not only are they also confronted with the dispossession of their lands, resources, and traditional knowledge, but physical persecution as well.