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Juan Uyunkar
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Shaman Bared From Using Ayahuasca
Following Woman's Death
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By Francine Dubé
National Post Friday, April 25, 2003
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MANITOWANING, Ont. - An Ecuadorean shaman and his son pleaded guilty yesterday to administering a noxious substance to an old native woman during a healing ceremony in which she died.
Juan Uyunkar, 49, and his son Edgar Uyunkar, 22, of the Shuar Nation in Ecuador were in Canada at the invitation of the local health centre in Wikwemikong, a remote First Nations community on Manitoulin Island between Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.
The visit by the shaman was part of a holistic healing ceremony and "cultural exchange" in the autumn of 2001. Participants were urged to drink copious amounts of a liquid brewed from tobacco and water and the Natem, or Ayahuasca plant, a hallucinogen banned in Canada ... ...

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