Dia de Los Muertos | How a made up holiday trick or treated itself into our hearts

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As Mexican American it has always bothered me how I have no childhood recollection of Dia de Los Muertos. I grew up participating in all of the usual cultural beats that comprise the Mexican American experience: posadas, tamales, girls turning 15, massive drunken backyard bbqs for a one year old, harassment from cholos, people who like the raiders or the Dallas Cowboys…..like way way too much. But Dia de Los Muertos? Never heard of her.

Seriously, not until I was in my 20s had I ever even heard of such an event, and it wasn’t until I was married with kids that the holiday really started to get noticed. But where in the heck did it come from? And how come I’ve never heard of it even though it’s supposedly a….3000 year old Aztec tradition?! How?

Let’s explore this mystery together, because everything isn’t as it seems or is sold to the public.

Thanks for watching!

-CCP Management

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Sources for your consideration:

Indigenous Festivity dedicated to the dead by UNESCO @ UNESCO.org (2008)

History of Dia de Los Muertos by Chief’s Message @ Los AngelesPD online (October, 2003)

Is Día de los muertos the same as All Souls Day? by Joel Schorn @ US Catholic (Nov 4, 2011)

What is the tradition of All Saint’s Day in Spain? by People Global Relocation @ PGR (Oct, 29, 2021)

The shapeshifting Nature of Días de Los Muertos and its role in Chicanx [sic] culture by Lara Medina @ PBS SoCal (May 29, 2019)

Traditions and Change: the transformation of Días de los muertos in the United States by Rebekah Mejorado @ Smithsonian American Art Museum blog (Oct 27, 2022)

The day of the dead wouldn’t be complete without Jose Guadalupe Posada by Ana Pacheco @ History of Santa Fe New Mexico (2020)

Dia de los muertos @ Galería de la raza (Nov 2, 1972)

Skulls, ofrendas, and marigolds: heres how day of the dead is celebrated in Mexico by Tiffany Acosta @ Azcentral (Sept 6, 2023)

Is day of the dead more indigenous or catholic? Friars Durán and Sahagún vs. wikepedia by Ruben C. Cordova @ Glasstire (Oct 31, 2019)

Day of the Dead in the USA: the migration and transformation of a cultural phenomenon by Regina M Marchi (June 6, 2009)



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