Text: The founding of Tataltepec
Texto: La fundación de Tataltepec
Object Details
| Subject Language | Chatino, Tataltepec de Valdés |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119704 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | Text: The founding of Tataltepec |
| Language Community | Tataltepec Chatino |
| Country(ies) | Mexico |
| Place Created | Tataltepec de Valdés, Oaxaca, México |
| Date Created | 2011-07-20 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Flavia Mateo tells a story of the founding of Tataltepec by a rich merchant woman from the Valley of Oaxaca named María who passed by the site of Tataltepec and noticed that it was good land, and suggested that the Chatinos of Cerro Agua Fría settle the plain. This story also explains the splitting up of the Tataltepec-Chatino-speaking people from the Zenzontepec-Chatino-speaking people to the north, since those people remained in the north having decided not to settle in the area of Tataltepec. This María is also the person who suggests that the Chatinos plant prickly pear cactuses to raise cochineal. It is because of this that Our Lady of the Assumption was chosen as the patroness of the town when the church was first built. [Tataltepec was known as Santa María Asunción Tataltepec before being re-named in honor of revolutionary hero Antonio de Valdés]. Flavia Mateo was told this story by her father Leonor Mateo. |
| Genres | Narrative History |
| Source Note | |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Sullivant, J. Ryan (Researcher) Mateo Mejía, Flavia (Speaker) Cortés Jiménez, Celiflora (Translator) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
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