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Aztlán

Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Astatlan or westernized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlán", from which was derived the word Aztec. Aztlán is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period, and while they each cite varying lists of the different tribal groups who participated in the migration from Aztlán to central Mexico, the Mexica who later founded Mexico-Tenochtitlan are mentioned in all of the accounts.

For other uses, see Aztlán (disambiguation).

Historians have speculated about the possible location of Aztlán and tend to place it either in northwestern Mexico or the Southwestern United States,[1] although whether Aztlán represents a real location or is purely mythological is a matter of debate.

Etymology[edit]

The name Aztlán was mentioned in the colonial Crónica Mexicáyotl about the 16th century, giving it the meanings "place of herons" or "place of egrets".[11] Although it is not possible as a Nahuatl morphological form Astatlan is possible an hispanicization case due is very similar to the Spanish words hasta, "until" or "up to" and tan, "so" or "as" and was possibly borrowed during writing process monitored by colonial Spanish authorities. Other proposals with Nahuatl morphology include "place of whiteness"[11] and "at the place in the vicinity of tools", sharing the āz- element of words such as teponāztli, "drum" (from tepontli, "log").[11][12]

Brown Berets

(Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán")

MEChA

Plan Espiritual de Aztlán

Raza Unida Party

which calls for self-determination for the Chicano nation in Aztlán up to and including the right to secession.[15]

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

In popular culture[edit]

In literature[edit]

"Aztlán" has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwestern United States or Mexico after their governments suffer a collapse or major setback; examples appear in such works as the novels Heart of Aztlán (1976), by Rudolfo Anaya; Warday (1984), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka; The Peace War (1984), by Vernor Vinge; The House of the Scorpion (2002), by Nancy Farmer; and World War Z (2006), by Max Brooks; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun, in which the Mexican government was usurped by the Aztechnology Corporation (1989). In Gary Jennings' novel Aztec (1980), the protagonist resides in Aztlán for a while, later facilitating contact between Aztlán and the Aztec Triple Alliance just before Hernán Cortés' arrival.


"Strange Rumblings in Aztlán" is an article written by Hunter S. Thompson that appeared in the April 29, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. The article is about the death of civil rights activist Ruben Salazar in East Los Angeles during a Vietnam War protest.

List of mythological places

(1807) [1787]. The history of Mexico. Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts, and ancient paintings of the Indians. Illustrated by charts, and other copper plates. To which are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico, 2 vols. Translated from the original Italian, by Charles Cullen, Esq. (2nd ed.). London: J. Johnson. OCLC 54014738.

Clavigero, Francesco Saverio

Jáuregui, Jesús (2004). . Arqueología Mexicana (in Spanish). 12 (67). México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Editorial Raíces: 56–61. ISSN 0188-8218. OCLC 29789840. Archived from the original on 2006-01-03.

"Mexcaltitán-Aztlán: un nuevo mito"

Lint-Sagarena, Roberto (2001). "Aztlán". In Carrasco, David L. (ed.). . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-0-19-514255-6. OCLC 872326807.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures :The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America vol.1

(1988). The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan. New Aspects of Antiquity series. Doris Heyden (trans.). New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-39024-X. OCLC 17968786.

Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo

(1843). History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes (online reproduction, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). New York: Harper and Brothers. OCLC 2458166.

Prescott, William H.

(2006). Against the Day. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 1-59420-120-X. OCLC 71173932.

Pynchon, Thomas

(1984). "The Aztlán Migrations of Nahuatl Chronicles: Myth or History?" (PDF online facsimile). Ethnohistory. 31 (3). Columbus, OH: American Society for Ethnohistory: 153–186. doi:10.2307/482619. ISSN 0014-1801. JSTOR 482619. OCLC 145142543.

Smith, Michael E.

(2003). The Aztecs (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-631-23015-7. OCLC 48579073.

Smith, Michael E.

Vollemaere, Antoon Leon (2000). (PDF). Gender and Archaeology Across the Millennia: Long Vistas and Multiple Viewpoints. Sixth Gender and Archaeology Conference, October 6–7, 2000 (online collection of papers presented ed.). Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology and Women's Studies. Archived from the original (PDF online publication) on 2008-04-14. Retrieved 2007-12-28.

"Chimalma, first lady of the Aztecan migration in 1064"

Wilcox, David R.; (Spring 2002). "The beginnings of anthropological archaeology in the North American Southwest: from Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference" (unpaginated online reproduction by Gale/Cengage Learning). Journal of the Southwest. 44 (2). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, on behalf of The Southwest Center, U. of Arizona: 121–234. ISSN 0894-8410. OCLC 79456398.

Don D. Fowler

Sanderson, Susana, "Tenotchtitlan and Templo Mayor", California State University, Chico.

Aztlan Listserv (hosted by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.)

League of Revolutionary Struggle, "The Struggle for Chicano Liberation" (an examination of Aztlan and the Chicano national movement from a Marxist point of view)

Los Angeles artist protesting walls in Berlin, Palestine and Aztlán