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  • Community songs | Chilili, 2007
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  • A statue of San Juan Neponuceno sits in a sunny afternoon window of the adobe walls inside the community church, which was built in the 1700s. San Juan Neponuceno is the patron saint of the community.
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  • The Matachine dancers get dressed in the parking lot before their first performance of the weekend. "It's just a tradition, it's a tradition that our ancestors left us from a long time ago. The Matachines come and they dance to the patron saint in respect." said life long resident Ernest Gutierrez...-----------..STORY SUMMARY: ..Small communities around New Mexico come together each year on traditional feast days. The East Mountains community of Chilili New Mexico celebrated the feast of San Juan Neponuceno on Aug. 3. For generations, a day of dancing, praying and feasting has brought the community of Chilili together. The residents do it for blessings, for fun, for each other. A mix of Spanish, Mexican, American Indian and Catholic traditions contribute to the feast of San Juan Neponuceno, the East Mountains village's patron saint.
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  • Steven St. John overlooks the San Juan River atop a hill in Upper Fruitland, a chapter on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico, June 2010. (Scanned from 6x6 color negative, Nov. 4, 2010.)
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