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With traditional dances, rodeos and bonfires, Mexicans celebrate cowboy culture in the village of La Mision, just south of the US border. The two-day festival honors the area's blend of cultures through history, from its indigenous roots to the founding of a Spanish mission in the village by Dominican missionaries in 1787. "For me, being a cowboy is like being an artist, a painter, a composer," says Villagardo Moreno, one of the founders of the event, held annually since 1979.

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00:00For me, being a vaquero is like being an artist,
00:28a painter, a writer of music, because apparently it's something very simple,
00:35but given my experience, I realize that riding a horse is art.
00:46Since I was very little, I liked the vaquero environment.
00:49I started to come here to the mission at the age of 12,
00:52so, yes, I've been able to live the experience of riding with the horses,
00:57they've been allowed to ride them, and it's very nice.
01:00I love the horses.
01:02So, to live with them, it's a lot of fun.
01:07I enjoy it.
01:08I enjoy it for you, I just like you, I just want to ride my ride,
01:19We are celebrating the foundation of this village.
01:27First, it was inhabited by the Kumiay family, native from Baja California.
01:34Then, the explorers came, and Dominicos came here and founded a mission
01:45to evangelize the natives who live here.
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