BEDTIME STORIES
When we read our children bedtime stories
they should be inspirational for them as Nican Tlaca.
We should be now writing our stories of liberation
so that when they grow up they will be warriors for our people.
They should not be fed the stories of the Europeans
with the hopes and fears and dreams of Europeans.
They should be given stories of heroes who fought
against white supremacy, against colonialism, against evil.
We should be creating those stories now, everyone of us,
from what we learn of our history, from what our children need to learn.
We cannot just read the poisons of colonialism to our children
no matter how harmless they may be, they turn our children against us.
Our children must learn of our great civilizations in ways that are clear
and give them pride and joy in our great accomplishments.
Our children should learn of our heroes who are great role models
for them to want to grow up to be, for them to teach their children.
We cannot teach our children what we don’t know, what we don’t understand,
so now is also the time for you to study, to write, to be creative about education.
We need to teach ourselves as we teach our children their bedtime stories,
as we show them what a pride and honor it is to be Nican Tlaca of Cemanahuac.
Director of Mexica Movement, Nican Tlaca Nation
(Read in this order, please)
1 Daily Life of the Aztecs by Jacques Soustelle
2 Mexico by Michael Coe
3 Maya by Michael Coe
4 American Holocaust by David E. Stannard
5 American Indian Contributions to the World by
Emory Dean Keoke & Kay Marie Porterfield
Lectures of Olin Tezcatlipoca