San Cristóbal de las Casas

Dia de los Muertos: A Complicated History and Unique Celebration of the Mexican Identity The history of Mexico’s most popular celebration, “Dia De Los Muertos” or “Day of the Dead, (English and Spanish will be used interchangeably in the paper), is complex and combines Indigenous culture with Catholicism in Mexico, to create a unique celebration of life and death, which is evident the rituals, foods and arts. The festival blends two different ideologies, yet in ways similar, to create an…

later watered down, especially sections most important for indigenous rights. The expanded autonomy over their land and natural resources that they had been promised were taken away. In addition, the government decided to not honor its signing of the San Andres Accords, one of the documents that gave the indigenous rights.2 These failures lead to the world’s focus to move on to other indigenous movements that looked more successful like Evo Morales’ Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia.1 To this…