The Hispanic community is growing, and to us, it's a proud thing, you know, kind.

America's a more cultural melting pot, right?

We should experience a little bit of everything, a little bit of everything, but why not?

Look at all the people.

Hi, my name is Jaco Intapia.

We're here to dance for Virgen de Guadalupe, a Mexican tradition that goes from many, many years ago.

We are dancing chinelos.

Chinelos is a tradition that comes from Morelos, and it's a thing we do every year to honor the Virgin for all of our blessings and our wealth.

Yeah, this started around 2003.

We started the procession.

Yearly, it's a feast that we celebrate to the Virgin of Guadalupe every 12th of December.

A family is chosen and volunteers to be the one that would, you know, celebrate the flowers and all the tradition for it, and each year, somebody's picked.

Five in the morning, everybody comes to the church to sing happy birthday to her.

They have a small celebration at the church.

We sing happy birthday to her.

After that, they go to the house, whoever has the Virgin of Guadalupe, starts decorating the truck with the flowers and everything, do the decorations for her, you know, get her ready for the afternoon parade.

They also offer mariachis, band music all day until the time of the procession.

We bring this tradition from Mexico, obviously, you know, the old tradition.

I've been doing it for over 10 years.

Same thing, same dance, you know, religiously.

You know what?

Every year, I tell everybody to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

As you see, we have our Mexican traditions, our Aztec heroes, our Viejan de Guadalupe at the back, chinelos, this is our outfits, and it comes from the conquerors of Spain back in the years, and we are chinelos from Mexico.

We gather here at St. Nicholas, St. Mary Parish to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

We celebrate this throughout the world, but it has very special significance for Hispanic communities here in the United States.

I used to have the other costume, which was a white one, but my grandfather passed away, so he's been doing this for so many years with my grandmother.

So I felt like, you know, when someone special passed away, so I took my costume and put it on his grave so he could have a little piece of me, you know.

So I kept just the hat, and that's why I keep dancing with the same hat.

But I got to get a new costume, a white one, obviously.

Viejan de Guadalupe is a tradition to honor and gratitude to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

We always want to thank her for everything we have, and it's been a tradition, and we're grateful for her.