Indigenous Community Members & Traditional Practitioners

Chacruna is a nonprofit psychedelic education and advocacy platform based in the United States with global reach through online publishing, courses, conferences, and multilingual programming. Its work centers on psychedelic plant medicines, ethics, cultural justice, reciprocity, and Indigenous knowledge, with content and activities aimed at researchers, clinicians, educators, policy audiences, and the broader public. The organization says it bridges ceremony and science and makes academic knowledge more accessible through public-facing education. Chacruna plays an explicit role in psychedelic justice and policy-adjacent advocacy by foregrounding cultural context, equity, and protection of sacred plants and traditions. Current documented initiatives include the Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas, which supports community-led Indigenous projects, the Psychedelic Culture conference, the bilingual Chacruna Latinoamérica platform, and courses on diversity, culture, social justice, ceremony, ethics, and reciprocity. These activities make it a potential partner for researchers, clinicians, funders, and policy groups seeking cultural consultation, educational programming, and community-centered collaboration.

Indigenous-led governance forum focused on ayahuasca traditional knowledge protection, leadership coordination, and benefit-sharing discussions across participating peoples of the Americas.

Indigenous federation representing Huni Kui communities across Acre and neighboring territories, focused on self-determination, biocultural protection, and safeguarding ancestral knowledge linked to plant-medicine traditions.

ICEERS is a Spain-based nonprofit focused on the globalization of Indigenous plant medicines, with work spanning education, research, legal support, and community services. Its website describes three connected areas of work: mitigating harms and consequences, co-creating collaborative pathways, and international monitoring and research. The organization serves people navigating psychoactive plant use, health professionals, and Indigenous and community partners across multiple countries. In psychedelic and drug policy work, ICEERS combines harm reduction, public education, and policy advocacy rather than operating as a patient-access organization. Its current public-facing services include free integration and crisis support through El Faro, a drug-interaction information service, educational resources, and legal defense support for people facing prosecution related to traditional medicines. ICEERS also reports work with Indigenous partners and claims its efforts have informed court rulings and public policy, making it relevant to researchers, clinicians, funders, policy groups, and community stakeholders seeking evidence, safety, and rights-based collaboration.

Conservation and reciprocity fund supporting Indigenous and local communities in medicine-plant stewardship, including iboga and peyote-related biocultural initiatives.

Indigenous-led conservation initiative focused on peyote habitat protection, Native church support, and long-term stewardship of culturally significant medicine plants.

Indigenous reciprocity and stewardship initiative centered on relationship-based accountability between psychedelic sectors and Indigenous communities.

US nonprofit focused on Indigenous-led peyote conservation, church support, and reciprocal stewardship programs with Native American communities.

Inter-organizational Indigenous council composed of Native American Church bodies that issues public positions on peyote sacramental protection and legitimacy of Indigenous church governance.

Indigenous Native American Church organization advocating for protection of peyote sacramental use, chapter governance, and religious freedom in the United States.

Indigenous-led Kamentsa organization in Colombia focused on biocultural conservation, language and elder knowledge preservation, and regenerative stewardship linked to Yage (Ayahuasca) traditions and territorial sovereignty.

Wixárika Indigenous authority coalition defending Wirikuta sacred sites and peyote stewardship, including legal and governance advocacy related to land protection.

Indigenous federation of yage practitioners from the Colombian Amazon representing community authorities and traditional medicine governance in policy, stewardship, and cultural continuity efforts.

Indigenous Yawanawa association in the Brazilian Amazon that protects cultural and spiritual heritage, rainforest territories, and community-led initiatives rooted in ancestral knowledge.

Indigenous-led Amazonian initiative founded by Yorenka Tasorentsi (Chief Benki Piyako) that advances forest regeneration, traditional medicine knowledge protection, and intercultural education.