- Ritual
- Xilonen（シロネン、女子成人儀礼）
- Region and community
- 米国California州Central Coast／White Hawk-Iztatutliの先住系・Chicano共同体女子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation
- Legal age of majority
- United States18–21 years, by stateUnited States · 47 states and Washington, D.C., use 18. Alabama and Nebraska use 19, and Mississippi uses 21. Mississippi permits certain property contracts from 18. · Law and supporting sources 1 · Law and supporting sources 2
About the rite
At Xilonen on California’s Central Coast, young women prepare for about two years with guidance from a madrina. Public descriptions include a women’s sweat lodge, songs, gift-giving, and several days of dance. Families and community members recognize participants as moving from girlhood into young womanhood.
The organizing community documents an annual contemporary practice. It is presented as a living Indigenous and Chicano ceremony, without claiming that every element has continued unchanged from a historical Aztec form.
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