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Aztlan (as'tlan, from Nahuatl) is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the
main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. "Azteca" is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan."

What is Aztlan? The Legend.
       Aztlan is a fabled land in Mexico and South American cultures.  In Nahuatl legends seven tribes
lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the place of the seven caves."  Each cave represented a different Nahua
group: the Xochimilca, Tlahuica, Acolhua, Tlaxcalan, Tepaneca, Chalca, and Mexica.  Because of the
common linguistic origin, those groups are also known as "Nahuatlaca" (Nahua people).  These
tribes subsequently left the caves and settled near the land known as Aztlan or Aztatlan.
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Conquest of
Aztlan.
Artist rendition of the
seven caves of
Chicomoztoc,
from Historia
Tolteca-Chichimeca
Some legends describe Aztlan as a paradise.  Others such as the Aubin
Codex states that the Aztecs were subject to a tyrant elite known as the
Azteca Chicomoztoca.  Guided by their priest, the Aztec fled and while in
travel, their god Huitzilopochtli forbade them to call themselves Azteca
anymore, stating they should be known from then forth as Mexica.

This migration to Tenochtitlan is said to have taken place on May 24,
1064, the first Aztec solar year began on this day.  Each of the seven
groups are credited with founding a different major city-state in Central
Mexico.

Per Aztec legends, the Mexica were the last tribe to emigrate having
been driven out by the Anaszi (Comanche/Shoshoni) tribes.  It took
them 302 years to reach their destination of their ancestral homeland,
the present-day Valley of Mexico.  As all other land was already taken,
they were forced to squat on the edge of Lake Texcoco.
It was not until after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and the reporting by Fray Diego Duran in 1581
and others that Aztlan was claimed to be far in the north and an Eden-like paradise, free of disease
and death. These stories helped fuel Spanish expeditions to the location of what is now known as
Gooseneck State Park in Utah.

Primary Sources Speaking Of Aztlan
The primary sources for Aztlan are the following:
Boturini Codex
Codex Telleriano-Remensis
Aubin Codex
History of Tlaxcala
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca

Aztlan Used By Chicano Movement
The concept of Aztlan as a place of origin of the pre-Columbian Mexican civilization has become a
symbol for various Mexican nationalist and indigenous movements.

The name Aztlan was first taken up by a group of Chicano independence activists led by Oscar Zeta
Acosta during the Chicano movement of 1960-1970's.  This name was used to refer to the lands of
Northern Mexico which they claimed to have been stolen or currently occupied by the American
Empire as a result of the Mexican-American War. This claim combined with the claim by some
historical linguists and anthropologists stating the original homeland of the Aztecan peoples to be
located in the southwestern United States.  Aztlan in this sense became a symbol of mestizo
activists siting it as a reason for believing they had and have a legal and primordial right to the land,
and ignoring the fact that the United States of America purchased the land they claim to be Aztlan.

Groups who have used the name "Aztlan" in this manner include:
Plan Espiritual de Aztlan
MEChA
Nation of Aztlan (NOA)

In Fiction Or Is It?

Aztlan has been used in a number of speculative fictional works which state of the emerge of Aztlan
in the southwest US or Mexico after the Central US Government suffers collapse or major setback.  
Such works can be found in the following:
Novels:  Warday
              The Peace War
           World War Z
           The Forest of Time (Michael Flynn)
           House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)
           Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
           Aztec (Gary Jennings)

Role-Play Game
            Shadowrun
FLAG OF AZTLAN
The Nation of Aztlan (NOA), first organized in the early
1990's, is a California-based Hispanic nationalist
organization that claims to represent the desires and
aspirations of the Hispanic community.  The
organization calls for the United States to return
"Aztlan" territory- Aztlan being the mythic homeland of
the Mexican people, or Aztecs, which according to
legend is found in the American Southwest or
Northern Mexico.  The group's nationalist message is
blurred by frequent appeals anti-Semitism,
anti-Zionism, homophobia and other expressions of
hatred.

(www.adl.org)
"Our duty is to take back what is ours, even if it means carrying out
total genocide" (Quote)

"I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond
the territory enclosed by its borders." (1997 President Zedillo)

"Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlan must take it upon
themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the
community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous
consciousness to continue to struggle for the self-determination of
the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan" (MEChA
Constitution of National Organization)

"We have recognized that the Mexican population is 100 million in
Mexico and the 23 million who live in the United States... We are a
united nation." (Mexican Immigration Commissioner Juan
Hernandez)

In a June 2002 Zogby poll, 58% of Mexican citizens believe that the
southwestern United States of America is rightfully territory of
Mexico and that Mexicans do not need the permission of the U.S. to
enter.
AZTLAN
MOTTO

 We reject all European divisions of our continent.

We reject the artificial border divisions of our people.

We reject the White Supremacist ideology
that claims Europeans are permanently endowed with the right
to define us and classify us to their liking.

We include "First Nation" and "Native American"

and "South American" Nican Tlaca (Indigenous  People).

We say, "No to occupation!"

We say, "This is still our continent!"
We say, "Europeans are the illegals--since 1492!"
MEXICA-MOVEMENT
Within the following sections you will find the disturbing brainwashing teachings
of the Mexica-Movement.  Such teachings pose a great risk to the United States
and her legal citizens.

(LFRA does not condone any of the teachings within this section and only offers it to show the true
depth of the disturbing mindset of these groups/organizations.)
The Mexica Movement is the name of a self proclaimed activist group founded within the United
States who assert their ancestry from Indigenous people of North America as the basis for
"liberating" the North American continent of all people of European descent.  

The Mexica-Movement was founded in 1993 originally as the Chicano Mexicano Mexica
Empowerment Committee (CMMEC) by the poet and writer Olin Tezcatlipoca.  It is currently based out
of Los Angeles, California.

This organization considers Mexicans, Central Americans, Native Americans and "First Nation"
Canadians as one people who have been falsely and forceably divided by European-imposed borders.  
They also state that European descent people have committed massive genocide and falsely
occupied the Western Hemisphere since 1492.  

Their ultimate desire and objective is the "liberation" of the North American continent from those of
European descent and to create a future nation known as Anahauc.  Anahauc will be comprised of
North and Central America, fused together to form a single super-state, under the democratic control
of indigenous people.  
This organization views all "White" people as "Europeans" who squat on indigenous lands.
 This liberation is expected to take place over multiple generations and involves
marshaling  massive media and educational resources in order to change the way people
understand the history of the continent and its people.

The majority of the group's members are United States born.

This organization rejects the "Aztlan ideology" as being to limited, seeking instead to unite
the entire North American continent under indigenous control.  

They host an extensive library of information which they frequently use during their regular
teach-ins at East Los Angeles College, as well as various lectures to university crowds
nationwide.  Their main position is to support land ownership rights of indigenous people of
North America, while denouncing all of the current government of the Americas as
legitimate, calling them all "colonial" and "European-imposed."  
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The Mexica Movement asserts firmly that the entire continent of North America, which they refer to as "Anahauc" belongs
collectively to the indigenous people of North America.  The entire Western Hemisphere they refer to as Cemanahuac.  Any of
European decent are considered "Illegal Aliens" who have been trespassing for over 500 years.  As one Mexica Movement
advocate summarized of the Organizations position, "America is a murder machine..We want the whole continent...All you guys
belong in Europe."

The Movement asserts that since 1492, Europeans and their descendants have committed a genocide which has killed 95% of the
indigenous people (a claim hotly debated by historians), stole their lands and mineral resources, destroyed their cities and towns,
denied them access to indigenous cultural knowledge, and terrorized the indigenous people with intense racism.  This they claim
allowed Europe and European-descent people to prosper materially and develop themselves at the expense of indigenous people.

All current borders are regarded as "colonial" and rejected by the Organization.  They claim the only "True" border for Europeans is
that of the Atlantic Ocean seaboard.  Yet they maintain that the indigenous people have the right to move freely among their own
people of the continent, with whom they share bloodlines, culture.

This Movement rejects English and Spanish languages except in use to educate the public and gain new members.  They advocate
the use of Nahuatl as their chosen language.

The group supports the preservation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as a legal framework to protect both Indigenous
and European people's rights during the multi-generational process of liberation.  The movement consciously seeks to promote
indigenous demographic increases which will lend themselves to a stronger population counterweight to European-descent
population.  Given this new majority status, the organization seeks to have "White Supremacist European Settlers" become the
first to be deported back to Europe.  This is to be followed by having a civilized negotiation to repatriate the remaining white
population back into Europe.  

In addition, Christianity and faith would need to be altered, with Christianity being "Eurocentrism" by their thinking.  Upon their
website under the "Anahuac Theology" section is a breakdown of their acceptable "Faith".   

The Mexica Movement insists people with at least partial indigenous ancestry should play indigenous people in movies and
European background actors be stopped from playing any indigenous roles.

References

Press Release "Illegals"
Mexica-Movement Website
Mexica-Movement Genocide
Mexica-Movement Identity
Mexica-Movement Anahuac Theology
WND Report