Chontales from Tabasco Many chontales from Tabasco don't celebrate Xmas with a family dinner, not only becouse they are poor, xmas is not a popular celebration. Chontales goes to the catholic church and they dance "El viejito" whole night till morning. "El viejito" is an ancient dance and is dedicated to all ancients god from there. People stay awake becouse they say they are waiting the born of little Jesus.

For reaching a dream is important build tools Must of us we have dreams and sometimes that dreams can not be reached. We need build the correct tools and find out the rigth people, people who help us to achieve that dreams. Two of my dreams are learning English fluently and give my parents the things they didn't afford. ¿What are my tools in those cases? Maybe the first one is my way to study for myself and the second one is learning how to build and decorate a house in order to give them a nice home.

Chontales from Tabasco: El cayuco In the past in the area where chontales have lived there were more water than roads, the cayuco was the perfect resource for transporting people and products. Mayan people traveled many kilometers using them. Today this small boat help Chontales from Tabasco for fishing but is not a transport of daily use. Besides there are no big trees in the land and goverment ban cut trees. People who know build cayucos now work in other thing, also there are bussines who affect them becouse they build cayucos made of industrial materials. There is a tradition in Nacajuca, in the Fest, girls decorate their cayucos and people decide which is the most beatiful cayuco.

Maize For hundred of years the maize has been the most important feed among Mayas-Chontales. Chontal life would be no possible without this seed. There are two way to use the maize in our communities: Tortillas and pozol, tortillas are for compaign our meals and pozol is aur main drink. A person who works in his land can stay working until late and only drink pozol and he won't weak after her job. In religious celebrations people offer to God plants of corns and during the celebration people eat huliche that is a meal with turkey and the soup is made base of corn.

Chontales from Tabasco - Music Hi! I'm Pechel and i writing about my culture. Today's theme is music. Traditional musicians are named "Tamborileros" Instruments are wooden drums, pitos (a flute), turtle shells and there is a fourth instrument: El tunkul (Man on kness is playing it). People invite musicians to her houses in religious partyies. On Christmas they playing their instruments all morning wainting for Jesus birth. Usually they start cultural events. In many towns there is a teacher that teach to the children to play drums, they hope the traditions keeps.

Chontales from Tabasco - Dances Hi! My name is Pechel and i'll be writing some entries about my culture. I'm living in a maya-chontal town named Tucta in Tabasco, Mexico. We speak a native language knew as Yokot'an. Chontales of Tabasco likes old dances. El baila Viejo (Dance of the old men) represents de request for rain and good crops. The musicians play pitos (A kind of flute) and drums of various sizes. Dancers use wooden mask, dress in white and while they are dancing they shout happily.