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"Utaztlan"?! (Insider Report).
Since the 1960s, radical Chicano activists (with financial and moral support from major tax-exempt foundations) have championed the notion that the southwestern United States is actually "Aztlan," the mythical homeland of the Aztec Indians. Believers in the Aztlan myth insist on the indivisibility of "la Raza" (the Mexican race) and the need to abolish the U.S./Mexico border. One of their preferred slogans is, "We didn't cross the border -- the border crossed us."
In recent years, the Mexican government has taken up this refrain by claiming to represent Mexicans in the U.S. -- not just illegal immigrants but American citizens of Mexican ancestry. There have also been more than a few hints that the Mexican government agrees with militant Chicano groups that Mexico should reclaim "Aztlan" through ...
- Editor's note.(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies September 22, 2007 700+ words
...articles in the past year: Abu Rabia, Ben-Gurion University; Ana Maria Anguas-Wong, San Francisco State University; Armando Solorzano, University of Utah; Bart Soenens, Catholic University of Leuven; Berit Brandth, Norwegian university of Science and...
- BEACH, SPANISH CLASS, FIREFIGHTERS, CAKE
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 15, 2009 700+ words
...culture of Costa Rica. Supervising University of Utah faculty members, Christina Gringeri (College of Social Work) and Armando Solorzano (Ethnic Studies and Family and Consumer Studies), help students draw connections between what they are learning in Costa...
- KIDS, PUPPETS, AZTECS CONVERGE ON ALBANY.(Weekend)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 25, 1990 700+ words
Byline: Winifred Yu Staff writer Aztec Indians and life-sized puppets will descend...the Empire State Plaza Stage in which Aztec Indians, adorned in colorful costumes and...Mexico City, where only about 2,000 Aztec Indians remain. According to Wanda Chew...
- The fun and folly of rain.(Opinion & Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin July 14, 2002 700+ words
...Incidentally, the presence of Waterous Clinic somewhere in Little Baguio, San Juan, is just coincidental. Rain dance It was the Aztec Indians of Mexico that were said to be the first indigenous people to perform a rain dance. Some soldiers in the expeditionary forces...
- U.S. in focus: Part one. (Facts).
- Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic January 21, 2002 700+ words
...country in England NEW JERSEY Named for Jersey, an 1787 The Garden State island in the English Channel NEW MEXICO For the Aztec Indians war 1912 The Land of Enchantment god, Mexitil NEW YORK Honors England's Duke of 1788 The Empire State York NORTH CAROLINA...
- It's no illusion ... hallucinogens: a trip to nowhere.
- Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication January 1, 1991 700+ words
...hallucinogens but maybe you weren't certain what they really do or how they fit into the drug picture or where they come from. The Aztec Indians in ancient Mexico who used them though they expanded their minds and gave them insight during religious rituals. In ore...
- AREA PLAGUED BY MOSQUITOES LIGHTNING BEETLES ARE POSITIVE RESULT OF RECENT...
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) June 29, 1989 700+ words
...decoration and for lighting purposes. In China and Japan, lightning bugs are caught and put into tiny cages for decoration in homes and gardens. In ancient times, Aztec Indians used a larger species of tropical lightning beetles in lanterns.
- Time trip.
- Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication October 4, 2002 700+ words
...men and 20 horses aboard his ships. According to the firsthand account written by Spaniard Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the Aztec Indians thought horses had two heads: "The Indians thought at the time that the horse and rider were one creature, for they had...
Source: HighBeam Research, "Utaztlan"?! (Insider Report).