Cultural Revitalization & Education
Our Cultural Revitalization & Education Bundle is focused on traditional knowledge sharing through art, culture, songs, storytelling, workshops & community advocacy & archiving.
This consists of the following programs.
Ancestral Womb Wellness Gathering
Youth Xinachtli Workshops
Ximalli/Calpoalli ~Culture Fund
Campo Santo
Ancestral Womb Wellness Gathering
Our Ancestral Womb Wellness Gatherings were birthed out of wanting to heal one another first, and then sharing with others. Our gatherings honor Indigenous knowledge keepers to decolonize, reclaim, and reaffirm Indigenous teachings that heal our families.
Over the years we have seen the need for healing of our everyone in our communities leading us to focus on the health of our community womb and how everyone’s healing impacts each individual.
Youth Xinachtli Program
Youth from our extended communities have the opportunity to learn about our indigenous teachings and culture through workshops focused on plants and art. They learn practical skills and also spiritual values that show them how to be a good relative to people and how to take care of Mother Earth. In addition, they build companionship with another and take on leadership qualities that build on their confidence and help guide them in school and their families.
Ximalli/Calpoalli ~ Culture Fund
Our mental health, spirits and bodies need community and ceremony to help us reconnect & bring us back to ourselves while enduring various struggles common in our communities. Our prayers and relations now expand beyond a birthing person to our partners/husbands, children and elders who need support as well. We have decided to take on the spiritual responsibilities shared from our elders in Teotihuacan and in Arizona to spread the much needed healing and continue our cultural traditions.
We gather in small groups in outdoor settings to put down prayers and continue helping our community through different calls for support. We’ve provided postpartum ceremonies, birther blessings, Miccailhuitl/Day of the Dead ceremony to acknowledge those that have passed on while in isolation; plus seasonal ceremonies to honor transitions & the earth. We’ve also received requests for Xilonen (Female coming of age ceremonies) and teachings of the Mitohtiliztli Huehuetlalli (danza azteca/aztec dancing) which is open to all nations and lineages.
Campo Santo Project
The Campo Santo Project is focused on a 6.9 acre property that is currently promised by the City of Phoenix to be deeded to the Cihuapacli Collective. This open land includes the Campo Santo Mexicano Cemetery which dates back to the 1890’s, when the land was still Mexico. This cemetery is home to families of farmers and ranchers that lived in the area and worked the land. Over the past 44 years, this land has been protected from the pressures of development by devoted community members such as Timoteo Diaz and organizations such as Pioneers' Cemetery Association.
The Cihuapactli Collective has been working with Diaz and PCA to push efforts toward completion of the transaction for the deed so they can properly fence the cemetery and provide visual recognition with a walkway so relatives can visit their ancestors. During this phase, the CC has been collecting stories from Diaz and PCA along with descendants of the cemetery to uphold the legacies of those buried. They hope more stories will surface in the community so the cemetery can have proper acknowledgement and its history will be accounted for.
Please visit our Campo Santo Project page for more information.
