PRAYERS CHOLOANI

After our peoples enslavement and colonization, at the hands of the Castilian empire in the mid 1500’s, and after the imposition of the scalplock bans and laws in which would disband the warrior societies, make illegal the genethliac warrior braid, forbid the practice of our language, our customs, tradtional dances, traditional songs, and any form of our original and traditional expression of spirituality and way of life under the threat of imprisonment and death. There was a small diaspora of our people, members of the disbanded warrior societies and their families whom were not willing to bend the knee to the viceroyalty of new spain and to the european monarchy, whom refused to accept the christian god of their captors, whom refused to be assimilated into european colonial culture. Refused to live as slaves and citizens of this foreign military occupation, and colonial empire, this diaspora of our people were persecuted and labeled hostiles, and filled the gallows and the