{"id":7887,"date":"2024-10-22T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T18:29:19","slug":"voices-from-the-stacks-los-bailadores-zapatistas-and-the-latino-native-american-cultural-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2024\/10\/22\/voices-from-the-stacks-los-bailadores-zapatistas-and-the-latino-native-american-cultural-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Stacks: Los Bailadores Zapatistas and the Latino Native American Cultural Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following is written by Olson Graduate Research Assistant Anne Moore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Latino-Native American Alumni Alliance (LANA3) gathered on campus to celebrate more than 50 years of the Latino Native American Cultural Center (LNACC) at the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1971, three students\u2014Rusty Barcel\u00f3, Ruth Pushetonequa, and Tony Zavala\u2014founded the the Chicano Indian American Cultural Center, later renamed the Latino Native American Cultural Center (LNACC). In it\u2019s five-decade history LNACC has hosted events like cookouts, powwows, and dances; published literary magazines and newsletters; held rallies, boycotts, and protests; and sponsored a variety of other educational and social programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Libraries\u2019 Special Collections and Archives recently acquired new materials from LNACC, including four beautiful dresses handmade by students in Los Bailadores Zapatistas, a baile folkl\u00f3rico troupe on campus. Baile folkl\u00f3rico encompasses many different types of traditional folk dance stemming from various regions of Mexico and cultural traditions, often with Indigenous and Spanish influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Bailadores Zapatista\u2019s was formed at University of Iowa in the mid-1970s and aimed to \u201cincrease the education level and understanding of mestizo dancing and music, and to share our mestizo culture with the university and community population.\u201d Los Bailadores performed on campus and throughout Iowa and the Midwest, often accompanied by the singing group El Conjunto Chicano. They visited other campuses and performed at community events and festivals. In 1978 they attended the National Ballet Folkl\u00f3rico festival in Kansas, and six students traveled to Mexico that summer to learn traditional dances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celina Espinoza, the groups instructor, taught the other members how to sew costumes, which are representative of traditional dance attire worn in different regions of Mexico. The group performed dances from the states of Jalisco and Veracruz, as well as from northern regions of Mexico and what is now the Southwestern United States.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Los Bailadores Zapatistas was just one of several groups affiliated with LNACC that brought Chicano art, music, and culture to audiences on the University of Iowa campus and beyond. To learn more about Los Bailadores and the Latino Native American Cultural Center, visit us in person or online at the Iowa Digital Library,<\/a> and check out our past blog posts on LNACC<\/a>. You can also find the full finding aid to this collection <\/a>online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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