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"Tiawanaku. Poemas de la madre Coqa (2019) de Juditzin Santopietro constituye un viaje poético por algunas regiones de Sudamérica con un énfasis en el alti-plano peruano-boliviano. Los poemas exponen la experiencia de una travesía por el mundo andino en la cual se actualizan rasgos históricos a un ritmo cuidadoso, similar al deleite del consumo de la coca. Con una mirada desromanti-zada, el yo poético penetra en el imaginario altoandino, sus rituales, su trabajo y su vitalidad. Santopietro logra intensidad y belleza en sus versos al recoger con destreza la tensión emocional situada entre la fascinación, la observación y la interpretación poética de la geografía y su gente."Ethel Barja, Poeta Peruana

This essay is an analysis of the social and cultural elements of a ceremony held by an indigenous migrant community in New York City. The ceremony under study is the annual festivity and dances in honor of Santiago Apostol by the Nahua people from Teopantlán, Puebla (Mexico). In approaching this ceremony, I use the category ‘comunalidad’ put in practice by the indigenous leader and thinker (ayuujk/mixe) Floriberto Díaz Gómez in his book Escrito. Comunalidad, energía viva del pensamiento mixe. Ayuujktsënää ́yën – ayuujkwënmää ́ny – ayuujk mëk ́äjtën. In this research, I approach native subjects who are able to revitalize the dances and rituals to honor the patron saint, who protects the land belonging to people in Mexico. However, I argue that the revitalization of this dances and rituals is carried out to recreate and reproduce community by the subject in the new space it inhabits: the periphery of the urban spaces. Hence, the indigenous migrant people in the United States of America are reproducing their social and cultural spaces. Throughout the study, I illustrate how the religious and cultural practices become mechanisms through which these territories are constituted to exercise the "comunalidad", even if they do not possess the land in this country. In this case study, the new cultural territory is created along the districts of New York City. This space is characterized by the reproduction of rituals and ceremonies to venerate patron saints, the use of native ingredients in the foodways and the practice of traditional medicine in daily life. Moreover, the territory is constituted by private spaces and the hierarchical social organization stablished to hold ceremonies. The cultural complex of the Santiago Apostol dance also allows us to understand contemporary indigenous migration to New York City as a result of an economical displacement in the context of NAFTA.