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Honoring First Peoples, calling on our spiritual traditions

“It is important to call on the spiritual traditions in our rich ancestry for guidance on how to re-harness our power...”
—Rev. Joanne Rodríguez, HTI Executive Director, “Beloved Community!”

 

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Home Among the Clouds
Home Among the Clouds

A new short film by Kogi screenwriter Jacinto Zarabata and the Tairona Heritage Trust for the Sierra Nevada of Colombia

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Home Among the Clouds
Home Among the Clouds

A new short film by Kogi screenwriter Jacinto Zarabata and the Tairona Heritage Trust for the Sierra Nevada of Colombia

“Making History Together”
“Making History Together”

An HTI Open Plaza virtual tour of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino

Insurrectionist Wisdoms
Insurrectionist Wisdoms

Dr. Neomi De Anda talks to 2023 HTI Book Prize winner Dr. Marlene M. Ferreras, whose work looks toward a North American indigenized pastoral theology

Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology
Toward a North American Indigenized Pastoral Theology

Dr. Marlene Mayra Ferreras presents an adaptation of her 2023 HTI Book Prize lecture

The Land, Indigenous Communities, and Their Church
The Land, Indigenous Communities, and Their Church

Scholars Rebecca Mendoza and Anthony Trujillo discuss the work of the Terralogian and what it means to decolonize religious practices

GOOD DOCS
GOOD DOCS

Selections from the award-winning collection of documentaries that do good in the world

Catholic and Indigenous
Catholic and Indigenous

Theologian Jonathan Hamilton-Diabo, anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget discuss reconciliation, Indigenous Peoples, and the Catholic Church

Will New Mexico Sing Their Spanish in Heaven?
Will New Mexico Sing Their Spanish in Heaven?

Christian Silva on embodiment, prayer, and Spanish-nuevomexicano

Intervenxions
Intervenxions

Selections from the online publication of The Latinx Project at NYU

Penitential Pilgrimage
Penitential Pilgrimage

Anthropologists Dr. Valentina Napolitano and Dr. Kristin Norget on Pope Francis, reconciliation, and the state

The Tip of the Pyramid
The Tip of the Pyramid

El Librotraficante Tony Diaz presents excerpts from his new book on Cultivating Community Cultural Capital

Thinking from Latin America
Thinking from Latin America

Stephen Di Trolio Coakley and Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno discuss liberation philosophy and anti-fetishism

Pensar desde Latinoamérica
Pensar desde Latinoamérica

Stephen Di Trolio Coakley y el Dr. Rafael Vizcaíno hablan sobre la filosofía de liberación y el anti-fetichismo

The Needle and the Thread
The Needle and the Thread

Victor Mancilla and Jim Nikas on their forthcoming film about the Jumano-Apache people and 17th-century Franciscan nun Sor María de Ágreda

Xitlali Zaragoza, Curandera
Xitlali Zaragoza, Curandera

Reyes Ramírez presents a story excerpt from his debut collection The Book of Wanderers

Return to Padre
Return to Padre

Journalist and anthropologist Cecilia Ballí tells a legal and personal history of South Texas

Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada
Calavera Images and José Guadalupe Posada

Jim Nikas digs up how the 19th-century Mexican graphic artist popularized the skull imagery associated with Día de Los Muertos

A Coyolxauhqui Imperative
A Coyolxauhqui Imperative

César “CJ” Baldelomar ruminates on writing, memory, and death

Christianity, Empire and the Spirit
Christianity, Empire and the Spirit

Dr. Neomi De Anda talks to Dr. Néstor Medina about his book on (re)configuring faith and the cultural

Symbols of Latinidades in the 2020 Election
Symbols of Latinidades in the 2020 Election

Dr. Michael DeAnda decodes signs of the times

Embroidery at the Hearth of Faith
Embroidery at the Hearth of Faith

Poet Natalia Treviño cross-stitches the sacred and the ordinary

Revelation in Aztlán
Revelation in Aztlán

Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo and Dr. Néstor Medina discuss scriptures, utopias, and the Chicano Movement

Transoccidentalism
Transoccidentalism

Dr. Oscar García-Johnson and Dr. Kay Higuera Smith look beyond the west-side story

Choosing the Jesus Way
Choosing the Jesus Way

Dr. Sophia Magallanes and Dr. Angela Tarango discuss Native American Pentecostals and the fight for the “indigenous principle”

Central Americans in Diaspora: Identity, Education, and Visibility
Central Americans in Diaspora: Identity, Education, and Visibility

Dr. Lauren Frances Guerra sees points of light beyond El Norte

Fish Out of Water
Fish Out of Water

Dr. Angela Tarango on telling the stories of others

Millennial Latinxs Reconnect with Ancestral Wisdom
Millennial Latinxs Reconnect with Ancestral Wisdom

Dr. Lauren Frances Guerra and Stephen R. DiTrolio Coakley get to the roots of the matter

A White Scholar in a Brown Body
A White Scholar in a Brown Body

Dr. Mariana Alessandri on seeing Anzaldúa and Kierkegaard through serpent and eagle eyes

Header: Curandera at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 16 July 2011. Photo: Larry Lamsa
Divider: Taíno petroglyphs (drawings or carvings on rocks near rivers or in caves), Gorge of Foulon in Sainte-Suzanne, Haiti. Source: Taíno Museum
Footer: Kaqchikel Maya celebrating the beginning of bʼakʼtun 14 at Iximche, Guatemala, 21 December 2012. Photo: Tom Fortunato