ABSTRACT
At the north end of the room, in front of a large picture window, a blanket with an image of 'La Virgen' of Guadalupe was draped over the television set. The Comanche songs were organized into four-line stanzas sung in Spanish with an Indian chorus in between that was distinct to the Sarracino sisters. Each year millions of devotees, mainly Indigenous, visit the Cerro de Tepeyac, considered by many as the holiest of religious sites in the Americas. To many, la Virgen de Guadalupe is considered the patron saint of Native American peoples. Yet, when one goes to the Santuario for the purpose of completing a promise or to petition the Santo Nino or to Tepeyac to petition la Virgen, it is difficult if not impossible to rationalize whether it is an Indigenous or a Catholic ritual one is performing.
