Dr Osiris G. Cerqueda

Indigenous Scholar

Dr Osiris García Cerqueda is an Indigenous Mazatec author, historian and sociologist from Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, Mexico.

From a very young age, he has dedicated himself to the study of the history of his community and the practice of the ancestral ritual with

psilocybin mushrooms, of which Maria Sabina was renowned. In recent years, reciprocity and restorative justice are the basis of his work of conducting a needs assessment in his community and developing activities to strengthen the Mazatec bioculture.