Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lazaro Arvizu is known as "el general" among Aztec dancers. He's dedicated his life to promoting the spiritual Indigenous practice ...

SEATTLE — As fear and uncertainty grow for many immigrant communities, one group in Washington is using culture as a form of resistance. For Esmael Xiutecpatl Lopez, growing up in Skagit County was ...

Danza Azteca, also known as Danza Mexica, is a cultural dance tradition practiced throughout the country. Its origins date back thousands of years to ancient Meso-American ceremonies of Mexico and ...

Danza Azteca On a Friday evening, the sound of huehuetl drums, ayoyotes (rattling ankle bands with rows of wooden shells), and ayacachtli (a handheld rattle made from gourds) beat steadily in Alberta ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KGO) -- A Bay Area Aztec group is dedicating this danza to Gabriel Trujillo, a UC Berkeley student killed last week in Mexico while doing plant research. Manuel Garcia said Gabriel ...

The Genesis Foundation for Fitness and Tennis delivered more than 300 pairs of tennis shoes to Anderson Elementary School — and they didn’t just drop them off. Volunteers made sure every student was ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — The sounds and moves of ancient Mexican culture are beating in Acadiana. At Moore Park in Lafayette, you’ll often find hundreds of soccer players; but, on Tuesdays and Fridays, you’ll ...

LA PUENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- At a studio in La Puente, Sergio Juarez is calling forth the ancient traditions of his ancestors. While dancers form a circle moving to the beat of the drums, Juarez is the ...

Alvarado is the leader of Calpulli Ocelocihuatl, one of roughly half-a-dozen Aztec dance groups active in San Jose. Other Aztec dance groups – some whose histories stretch back more than half a ...

Danza Azteca Citlaltonac Indigenous Group and Nonprofit Organization is broadening its creative horizons. The Indigenous Coachella ceremonial group has long been on a mission to provide safe, sacred ...

Twenty-two Indigenous dancers move as one in a circle with a man dancing in the middle. They call him “el general.” Lazaro Arvizu has dedicated his life to promoting Danza Azteca, a spiritual ...