A Promise Kept: Locals Revive Dance Dedicated to Patron Saint of Captives 

Photos and text by Denise Tessier

Moises Gonzales says as a child, family and friends would gather for barbecue after Catholic Church on Sunday, and Gonzales’ grandfather “always told a story I thought was fiction.” The story told by his grandfather basically was this: “I was born in La Madera and we were Indians; we were Comanche. Then we became Apaches, and we’d hunt buffalo and bring back all these captives.” Gonzales says he never understood why his grandfather said these things. “I never processed it.” He has since learned that what his grandfather said was true.