Mexica Movement
Name and origin
The name Mexica is derived from the Nahuatl word Mēxihcah (Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkaʔ]), the name the Aztecs used for themselves.
The organization is named after the Mexica (a.k.a. Aztec) civilization. This civilization is seen as the best chance from which the continent's indigenous-descent peoples can reconstruct themselves as a nation, similar to the way that modern Italians unified their nation under Roman-Italic identity and the Tuscan dialect.
Nican Tlaca (literally meaning "Man Here") was first used in an ethnic context in the book We People Here by John Lockhart (who was the first person to create Nican Tlaca as an identity). Nican Tlaca is grammatically incorrect. Contemporary native Nahuatl speakers are dumbfounded by it since it is incomplete. In ancient text, it was used as a pronoun, not as an ethnic group as the Mexica Movement claim.
See also
Further reading
- Arturo Chang. 2021. "Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico." American Journal of Political Science.
References
- ^ Lockhart, John (1993). We people here : Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico. Berkeley, University of California Press. p. 335. ISBN 9780520078758.
- ^ Samuel Tecpaocelotl Castillo, ""Nican Tlaca" Is An Incorrect Term", Mexica History, 06/01/16