Mexihcatl Education (facebook)
In English it’s Mexican.
In Spanish, Mexicano.
In Nahuatl, Meh-shee-cah.
The Mexica were not an isolated people, but part of a larger Native American continuum built upon earlier civilizations. Identifying as Mexica Native American today is not a denial of history, but a reclamation of Indigenous roots beyond colonial labels. Mexica is Mexican—decolonized.
We are Mexica Native Americans. Never immigrants! Never illegalls!
We are the original people of this continent.
the accent is on the first syllable MEH-she-cah. it's what gave Mexico ([Me- is meztli (the moon), Xi-(lake or navel)- ca (place)] it's name. the reclamation signifies the connection with what happens in the night as we sleep- and that is DREAMING. we are holding on to our dreams as we move forward with discovering and creating our own identities beyond terms like "Latino", "Hispanic", and "Indian" which have all been imposed on us by europeans. If you know your national names, hold on to them: MAYA, PURAPECHA ,RARAMURI et. al... And there was no such thing as Aztec... they called themselves AZTECATL meaning they were from AZTLAN. they would also identify with the city/states in which they lived. the spanish could pronounce the "TL" at the end of words and so recorded many words improperly. By the time they got here, the Aztecatl were absorbed into the groups of the cities that they invaded.
