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We the people of the land, have been Americans for at least 20,000 years. We are taught that we have been killed off, but we are still here. Marriage, some of it forced, brought us into the Latin mix, but we survived and our genes survived.

Some say that New York City’s Indigenous people are gone. But the spirit of the first people has always been here and the spirits of the land, the land of many hills, Mannahatta, will always be here.

Pachamama Day

Saturday, August 1, 2020
ANDES
This Indigenous Inca nature festival of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and parts of Chile and Argentina honors Mother Earth to bring a good growing season

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Our Lady of Guadalupe

Saturday, December 12, 2020
MEXICO CITY, Mexico ~ There is a pilgrimage of about 10 million people to the basilica that houses the cloak of the Marian apparition who fused Aztec and Spanish traditions into the icon of Mexican identity on December 12, 1531

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Indigenous Festivals in NYC

Indigenous New York City

New York City was built on Lenape or Delaware land. The Lenape village was in what is now Inwood. The Lenape trading post was at Manhattan’s southern tip under what is now the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Broadway was the trail between the village and trading post. That is why it meanders diagonally across Manhattan’s street grid. The sacred elm tree or Council Elm was where Bowling Green Park is today.

Indigenous New Yorkers

Indigenous People

Indigenous people represent a continuum of cultures from Alaska and the Canadian arctic to Tierra del Fuego at the bottom of South America.

Indigenous peoples have a balanced symbiotic relationship with the land almost like guardians of the earth. Killing the people, kills the land; and killing the land kills the people. Preserving Indigenous ways is really self-preservation.

Benito Juárez

Saturday, March 21, 2020
SAN PABLO GUELATAO, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Indigenous founding father of the modern Mexican state was born on March 21, 1806. There is a statue of Juárez in the northwest corner of Bryant Park.

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Indigenous Bahia Brazilian (Joa Souza/Dreamstime)
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In the beginning we are all Indigenous somewhere.
In the end, we are all children of the earth, sun, moon and stars.

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