Declarationthemedicinetribe.nl/blog · July 2026 In January 2019, representatives of the Shipibo-Conibo, Kichwa and other Indigenous nations gathered in Pucallpa, Peru, and wrote something down. They called it the Yarinacocha Declaration. It is not a political manifesto. It is not a fundraising campaign. It is a statement from people who have protected one of the most biodiverse places on Earth for countless generations, while watching it disappear around them. One sentence has stayed with me...

What we are building I have been sitting with what to say here. Part one was about what I saw in the field. Part two was about where I decided to stand in it. This one is about what that actually looks like when you put it into practice. Not as a mission statement. As specific things, built. The first thing I did was ask myself what I actually know. After ten years of dieta, after sitting in more ceremonies than I can count, after learning alongside Roberth and Miguel and other teachers in...

I said I was still deciding what my place in this field should be. I am not deciding anymore. Here is where I landed, why, and what I am asking for now. The cup goes back to Roberth. Back to Miguel. Back to the people who actually hold this lineage, who carry it in their blood and their language and their land. They are the ones who should stand at the front of the ceremony. They are the ones the reward should return to, so it can go back to their community, back to Pahoyan, back to the...