Mexica Movement
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The
Name and origin
The name
The organization is named after the
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).[1] 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.[2]
See also
- Manifest Destiny
Further reading
- Arturo Chang. 2021. "Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico." American Journal of Political Science.
References
- ISBN 9780520078758.
- ^ Samuel Tecpaocelotl Castillo, ""Nican Tlaca" Is An Incorrect Term", Mexica History, 06/01/16