both on Christmas Eve and on the evening preceding the feast day for a pueblo’s patron saint. “Taos is the most beautiful,” Deborah said. “That to me epitomized the whole vespers.

Followers trail behind, carrying candles, and searching for a home to eventually take them in on Christmas Eve. Â The Taos Pueblo gets into the act, too, with a colorful Christmas Eve Procession that ...

This Christmas, Taos Pueblo tribal members will be enacting the Deer Dance, a ceremonial that is deeply tied to its ancient Native religion. It will be conducted on Christmas Day, beginning in ...