{"id":138410,"date":"2025-08-12T01:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138410\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:32:18","slug":"nycs-newyorktlan-festival-highlights-indigenous-traditions-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/138410\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s NewYorkTlan Festival Highlights Indigenous Traditions and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the South Bronx on Sunday, August 10, the annual NewYorkTlan festival brought together indigenous communities from across New York City for a day of food, music and tradition. <\/p>\n

Organized by Red de Pueblos Transnacionales<\/a>, a network of indigenous and rural immigrant groups in New York City, the event featured dances, musical performances, storytelling and vendors offering goods like tamales, aguas frescas, handmade jewelry, embroidered clothing and herbs. The festival was created in 2014 to celebrate indigenous identities often overshadowed by homogenized representations of Latin American culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to create an event that prioritizes indigenous voices, languages and traditions,\u201d said Marco Castillo, one of the founders of Red de Pueblos Transnacionales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This year, amid the steep increase in deportations<\/a> and ICE raids under the Trump administration, the gathering was moved indoors and made invitation-only.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this time of terror and hate,\u201d Castillo said, \u201cit\u2019s important to remember that many of these cultures have been here for longer than the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iakowi:he\u2019ne\u2019 Oakes, founder and director of the North American Indigenous Center of New York<\/a>, attended NewYorkTlan to take part in the festival and help foster connections between groups. For Oakes, the event offers something vital:<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York can be a cold and difficult place to be,\u201d she said. \u201c[At NewYorkTlan] people can reaffirm their traditional cultures and each other \u2026 and celebrate the colorful, beautiful things that come with community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Representing the highlands of the state of Guerrero, known as Monta\u00f1a Alta, Eufemia Neri performs at August 10th\u2019s NewYorkTlan festival in the Bronx. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cPecitos Danzantes,\u201d a Brooklyn-based teen dance group, performs a traditional dance of Mexico\u2019s Indigenous Tecuanes people. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"High school students from Brooklyn perform traditional Mexican dances. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"Women and teen girls line up in preparation for the \u201cMuestra de Vestimentas Tradicionales,\u201d a presentation of traditional indigenous clothing from across Central America. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"Women and teen girls line up in preparation for the \u201cMuestra de Vestimentas Tradicionales,\u201d a presentation of traditional indigenous clothing from across Central America. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"A family from Guatemala performs at the NewYorkTlan festival. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"Vendors sell handmade cheese gorditas and quesadillas. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"A group of women from Honduras and Mexico display a table of handmade pi\u00f1atas. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cPecitos Danzantes,\u201d a Brooklyn-based teen dance group, performs a traditional dance of Mexico\u2019s Indigenous Tecuanes people. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n

\"\"A vendor sells handmade sachets of dried sage from the Comc\u00e1ac nation in Sonora, Mexico. Photo: Corrie Aune for Documented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the South Bronx on Sunday, August 10, the annual NewYorkTlan festival brought together indigenous communities from across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":138411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,82902,82900,82901,82904,82906,405,403,5226,5225,82898,5228,5227,82903,82899,82905,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-138410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-eufemia-neri","10":"tag-iakowihene-oakes","11":"tag-marco-castillo","12":"tag-montana-alta","13":"tag-muestra-de-vestimentas-tradicionales","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-newyorktlan-festival","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-pecitos-danzantes","22":"tag-south-bronx","23":"tag-tecuanes-people","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115013219200733531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}