Santa María Acapulco is an indigenous community or pame xi'ói approximately 8.000 inhabitants, which is composed 22 populations located in Santa Catarina, a town in southeastern San Luis Potosi is located on the eastern limits of the call middle, in the Sierra Gorda, near the border with the state of Querétaro.
The Santa María Acapulco population lives in extreme poverty, is a major migration of young people to the sugar mills of the Huasteca or to crops in the United States due to lack of water, both drinking and for agricultural production. Also, electricity comprises only 20% of communities. There are some elementary schools, two secondary schools and one high school.
Fortunately, despite their material poverty, the indigenous inhabitants of this region are considered as a group and a geographic area as one of the last strongholds pame current culture as for its traditional isolation have preserved much of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage of xi'ói (language, ceremonial music, traditions and religious beliefs craft production, festivities, vernacular architecture, etc.).
COOPERATIVE
From pre-Columbian times xi'ói men and women have taken advantage of the palm for several uses in the manufacture of utensils, for roofing their houses, for the manufacture of furniture, etc. Today, too, this material is used to manufacture beautiful crafts of various kinds.
Since 2007, several local women have joined in a cooperative autonomous objects for the production of palm in the hope of having more recursoscon which maintain and educate their children.
The cooperative is legally formed. In it there were 49 women and a man who, traditional methods, work palm in various ways (in weaving mats, knots in tissues, tissues back pair), to manufacture beautiful baskets, hats, mats, animals, vases, fruit bowls , baskets, dolls, from a wide variety of objects and utensils. The cooperative intends, over time, generate projects for agricultural and social development that can benefit the whole population of the area.
Each piece made by a member of the community has a fixed price. This is specified on a label sewn to each object and which bears the name and surname of one of the weavers in the cooperative, which represents the value that it considers that it is their job.
The sale outside the community of Santa María Acapulco is done by volunteers. No middlemen.
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