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MEXICA:
Mexica (Meh-shee-kah)
is the original Nahuatl (the so-called Aztec language) way of pronouncing
Mexican, Mexicano, and Chicano and Chicana. The Mexica was the last
of our great Anahuac civilizations (1325 to 1521). Mexica is the only
one of our cultures and civilizations which has enough surviving material
from which we can reconstruct our Anahuac nation. The Mexica were victims
of an ethnocide that left no one today who can authentically call themselves
Mexica, much like in Italy there is no one who can authentically call
themselves Roman. Therefore, the rest of us who have lost all of our
civilization identity and culture or tribal identity and culture, and
even those of us who have a civilization or tribal identity, can and
should embrace Mexica identity as a collective identity for all of us
that we use in order to reconstruct our Anahuac nation and as a means
of Liberation. Mexica does not negate Maya or Huichol or Comanche or
Shoshone or any of our other Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) civilizations
or cultures. Mexica is our point of unity and our means of reconstructing
our entire nation.
ANAHUAC:
Anahuac (Ah-nah-wak)
is the true name of our nation. We are all part of the Anahuac civilization
that gave us the Olmeca, Zapoteca, Teotihuacan-Toltec, Maya and Mexica
civilizations. The Mexica part of our Anahuac heritage is how we can
reconstruct ourselves as a Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) nation, as the Anahuac
Nation. We have historic, cultural, linguistic, and racial factors that
make us one Anahuac nation, which includes all of our civilizations
and cultures. The Mexica heritage gives us a history, language, theology,
and study base from which we can rebuild all of our Anahuac heritage.
We are a beautiful mosaic of civilizations and cultures throughout this
whole continent that Europeans call "America". But this is
not "America", this is Anahuac.
NICAN
TLACA: Nican Tlaca
is our Nahuatl (Mexica) language way of saying "We the people here",
in reference to all of us who are Indigenous to Cemanahuac (what Europeans
call "the Western Hemisphere") and more specific to Anahuac
which is the northern part of Cemanahuac (which is falsely called "North
America"). Nican Tlaca refers to all of the people of our race
in the "Western Hemisphere". We are not Indians or indios
because those are the people of a nation called India. We are also not
"Native American" because we are not related to Amerigo Vespucci,
nor do we accept the concept of "Native" because it is always
used in a derogatory manner. Notice how there are no "Native"
Europeans.
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