Our New Anahuac

XochiKwikatl-Cuitlapalli Teotlatoliztlli
XochiKwikatl. Flor Y Canto. Our ancestors equated the acquisition of knowledge with the beauty of nature and sacredness, with flower and song. Because nature is a part of the creator, the process of acquiring knowledge was considered sacred.
Cuitlapalli Teotlatoliztilli. The masses of our people were referred to in [...]

Citlalli Citlalmina Anahuac of the Mexica Movement speaks about some deficiencies in Chicana feminism.  Thanks to Nahui Huitzilopochtli for sharing this. Briefly, Citlalli, argues:
Feminism doesn’t confront colonialism.
Feminism fights white men, but we shouldn’t be fighting our men.  We should be developing them.
Our pre-Cuahutemoc culture valued women, therefore our strategy for equality should be restorative.
Please [...]

Special thanks to Mazatzin, Assessor of the Ancient Culture of Anauak (an overly humble title in my opinion), for this guest post.
He asked me to include his contact information:
(323)830-7479
zemazatzin @ hotmail.com
www.aztekayolokalli.com
 
Happy New Year to all, in this European colonial calendar count. It is a new year because we are measuring it from exactly 365.25 days [...]

The media does not seem to shy away from reminding us that our young Latina girls have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the county.
About one million teenage girls in the United States, or one in three, gets pregnant before they turn 20.
More than 80 percent of those pregnancies are unintended and unintentional, and one [...]

Sometimes I write in order to gather my thoughts before moving on something.  Sometimes I send them out as letters.  In this case, I used this for both.  This is a truncated version of a letter that I had sent out previously.  If I can find the original version, I’ll post that too.
In the past [...]

From Wikipedia
The sample text below is an excerpt from a statement issued in Nahuatl by Emiliano Zapata in 1918 in order to convince the Nahua towns in the area of Tlaxcala to join the Revolution against the regime of Venustiano Carranza.[104] The orthography employed in the letter is improvised, and does not distinguish long vowels [...]

I could not have been prouder of and happier for Xavier Herrera, Danza Azteca Teokalli and all who participated in today’s Chiaui Nahui festival at Ripley House in Houston’s east end.  A little conjunto music, some rock conciente, ballet folklorico and art all came together in a beautiful way.  Words, and maybe even my little [...]

I think that one of the most difficult things for our people to grasp is the long-term danger of the use of such words as Latino and Hispanic.  These terms were born of an attitude of white supremacy among  Spanish and Portuguese speakers. It is shocking for some to realize that there are Hispanic [...]

This book is worth a read if you can find it.