In Indigenous communities in Mexico, traditions to celebrate the dead have been around for centuries.

(Nahua refers to the Nahuatl-speaking Indigenous people of Mexico and Central America, a group that includes the Mexica.) An feather-working artisan at work, as show in Book 9 of the Codex.

In ancient times, the Nahua people celebrated the birth of Huitzilopochtli with idols made of roasted and ground blue corn mixed with dark maguey honey.

He is an activist for the rights of Indigenous peoples, specifically the Nahua people, to whom we belong. He is a person who is very, very loved and known throughout the region for the work he has ...

Accompanying the text are 2,468 illustrations that show Nahuatl life and symbolize the Nahua people’s traditional way of combining stories with paintings and Europe’s style of Renaissance paintings, ...

But they might take on a new giggle-worthy meaning when you learn their backstory. Avocados originally came from Mexico and Central America, where the indigenous Nahua people found them.

The festival originated several thousand years ago with Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people, who considered mourning the dead disrespectful and viewed death as a natural phase in life’s long ...

For centuries, a rich manuscript documenting the culture and customs of the Nahua people sat archived in the Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy. Kevin Terraciano, the chair of UCLA’s history ...

The origins of Día de los Muertos extend back 3,000 years to the death rituals of the Nahua people of Mesoamerica. The Nahua, which includes the Aztecs, saw the universe in cyclical terms and ...