View of  Tlahuitoltepec in the Mixe mountains
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Tlahui


Santa MarÌa Tlahuitoltepec Mixe

PROEMIO AND INTRODUCCION:

Somos otro grupo indÌgena de MÈxico formando asÌ un n™mero considerable de la poblaciÛn total del paÌs, que se conservan al margen del proceso de desarrollo, no solo por las condiciones de el aislamiento geogr·fico sino por m™ltiples factores del orden cultural, polÌtico y social.

Los Tlahuitoltepecanos somos luchadores por la defensa de nuestro pueblo, aportamos y ayudamos a nuestra comunidad para toda ocasiÛn, se conserva ya desde aÒos inmemorables la paz mutua entre nuestros hermanos indÌgenas y la sociedad que nos rodea, propiciando asÌ la armonÌa, la convivencia social colectiva y la fraternidad.

Adem·s de tener constante contacto con la madre naturaleza puesto que es nuestra parte constitutiva. La concepciÛn del tiempo, la existencia, asÌ como tambiÈn la totalidad del mundo y su representaciÛn simbÛlica, se experimentan y se viven intensamente. En conjunto est·n la naturaleza de la pr·ctica de las artes y oficios, los festividades, el sacrificio Mixe, el idioma como lengua nativa, la cosmovisiÛn Mixe, las autoridades y los trajes tÌpicos; existen, son reales y verdaderos, porque en medio de esto est· la sensaciÛn de vivirla, como un momento eterno, de hasta romper las condiciones actuales, unirse con lo absoluto, como ilusiÛn o no.

En Tlahuitoltepec, ha sido ™til la familia de todos los tiempos, para darle sentido inmediato y una finalidad futura a la vida, es decir, como pueblo tendemos a ubicarnos en la filosÛfica de la historia, a la experiencia vivencial colectiva y personal.
Con el propÛsito de invitarlos, por mantener vivos nuestra gente y nuestro pueblo, desde estas tierras tenemos la oportunidad de intercambiar lo que pensamos, tenemos, hacemos y ofrecemos. En nuestros corazones, en nuestra mente y por consiguiente nuestro pueblo, despuÈs de una larga lucha por mantenernos vivos, podamos suspirar, conmovernos y compartir, porque todos somos espejo de las realidades de unos y otros; porque tambiÈn finalmente todos somos seres humanos nacidos por igual, pero seremos nosotros los Mixes los jam·s vencidos.

(The following English translation is computer generated, therefore is not very good)

we Are another native group of Mexico forming thus a considerable number of the total population of the country, that are conserved al margin of the process of development, not alone by the conditions of the geographical isolation but by multiple factors of the social, political, and cultural order.

The Tlahuitoltepecanos we are fighters by the defense of our town, we contribute and we help to our community for every occasion, from years is conserved already inmemorables the mutual peace among our native brothers and the company that surrounds ourselves, favoring thus the harmony, the collective social contact and the fraternity.

Besides having constant contact with the mother nature since is ours splits constituent. The conception of the time, the existence, as well as also the totality of the world and its symbolic representation, experience and live itself intensely. As a group are the nature of the practice of the arts and crafts, the festivities, the sacrifice Mixe, the language as native tongue, the cosmovisiÛn Mixe, the authorities and the typical suits; exist, are real and true, because in the middle of this is the sensation to live it, as an eternal moment, of until breaking the present conditions, to be united with the absolute thing, as illusion or not.

In Tlahuitoltepec, has been useful the family of every time, to give him felt immediate and a future purpose to the life, that is to say, as town we tend to locate us in the philosophical one of the history, to the experience vivencial collective and personal. For the purpose of inviting them, by maintaining living our people and our town, since these lands we have the opportunity of exchanging what we think, we have, we do and we offer. In our hearts, in our mind and consequently our town, after a long fight by maintain living, we can sigh, to touch us and to share, because all we are mirror of the realities of some and other; because also finally all we are born human beings equally, but will be we the Mixes the never maintaining used.


Fiesta Parade 
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Fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe

An English couple were invited to spend a couple of days in a village called Tlahuitoltepec in the Mixe mountains, 4 hours from Oaxaca City. This is their first hand account of this festival, the people and the village. "they all speak an indigenous language called Mixe in the village - although Spanish is also spoken it is very much as a second language"


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