RECOMMENDATION #1 FOR DECOLONIZATION

We are in a time where our people are in ruins from 500 years of European terrorism and genocidal attacks on our people. We are being forced to "assimilate" (exterminate ourselves). We have been culturally castrated and we have no easy way to reproduce ourselves in our own heritage in a way that is authentic. Europeans have made it almost impossible for us to regain, reconstruct, and live again in our Nican Tlaca cultures and civilizations.

Our beautiful cities and civilizations were an extremely complex heritage that most of our people don't even know that we had. But those of us who learn from the writings of the Mexica Movement Nican Tlaca Nation understand that Nican Tlaca education for liberation is a difficult task. So we need to begin with little steps that lead us to bigger steps.

Our reading list is a book of enlightening books, but they are a difficult read. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the discipline of doing all the reading that is necessary to decolonize our minds.  But there are little things we can do that go hand in hand with the reading that will help us to assert ourselves, to lay down a foundation for a Nican Tlaca culture that will resist colonization's efforts to destroy us. We need to be assertive in all things that promote Nican Tlaca education for liberation.

We can change our European names to Nican Tlaca names and we can let our hair grow long. But those two things will take time. Here is something you can do without too much trouble. More on the names and hair later.

Nican Tlaca Chantli

An Indigenous Home

Not Hispanic or Latino

NOPAL AS A SYMBOL OF WHO WE ARE 

This putting of a nopal, a cactus (which is Indigenous to this continent), in front of our home, is A DECLARATION OF OUR IDENTITY, a rejection of European colonialism and genocide.

I think this can be done for homes or apartments EASILY.  Even a small nopal, or an image of a nopal in wood or ceramic on the door in a tasteful art style should work.

Nican Tlaca, literally translates as "We people here" but it translates with a meaning of, "We the people of this continent".  This is in the Nahuatl language of Mexico but can be said in any of our original languages to refer to all of our people of Cemanahuac ("Western Hemisphere" or the false name forced on our lands of "The Americas, North and South America").  We are one people without borders, without divisions.  All shades of Full-blood and Mixed-blood ("Mestizos") are one people, one nation.

Don't get stuck in the Post-1492 colonialist and genocidal mind.  USE YOUR IMAGINATION: In the last 500 years, without European invasion-occupation of our continent, it is possible that we would have united all of our cities, civilizations, cultures, into one Nican Tlaca Cemanahuac nation to defend ourselves against European invasions.

Also, remember that the ONLY REASON we were defeated by the Europeans was the use of smallpox as a biological weapon of mass destruction.  The use of this weapon was not "an accident", it was totally intentional.  It was totally mean to be used as a weapon to cleanse our people off of the valuable property that is our nation.  They killed 70 to 100 million (95%) of our population in the whole of our continent.

The 5% of us who survived were enslaved, culturally castrated so that we could not reproduce our heritage through our own schools and universities. We were raped and forced to take on the European names and the Christian religion.

Hispanic refers to the people, the language, the culture, the things of Spain. Look at dictionaries prior to 1980, after that time the Miami Cuban gusanos changed the meaning in the dictionaries as a form of reinforcing colonization on Mexican Nican Tlaca as a form of denying us any Nican Tlaca connection to our Pre-1492 past of cities and civilizations and great accomplishments in human history.

Speaking Spanish doesn't make us Hispanic or Spaniards, not any more than African descent people in the "USA" are Britanic or English or white for speaking English. African descent people in the "USA" in their majority have some European blood from the time when they were raped as slaves. That rape-caused DNA does not make them Europeans nor does it deny them their African heritage. That raped blood is just a scar.

The same goes for us. We carry the raped DNA of the Spaniards only as a scar. It does not define us. It does not deny us our Nican Tlaca blood, nor does it deny us our Nican Tlaca identity and our heritage that is in the cities and civilizations of this continent, so matter how light we are in color.

Most of our people speak Spanish (and a lot don't) and have colonialism's enslavement Spanish names, but that does not make us Hispanic. We are Nican Tlaca, Indigenous people, not Spanish or European, or "white" as a people.

Latino refers to the southern Europeans who are culturally and racially part of the Latin culture of the Romans in Europe.

In its original intent, it refers to the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Italians, Rumanians, and Catalans who speak languages that are derived from the Latin language of the Romans.

Latino, as it is used today, refers to the Europeans Latins of Spain, Portugal, and France who came to our continent and forced colonization and genocide on our continent, on our people.  It refers to the people and the culture of the Latins of Europe who now control those parts of our continent where the Latin languages are spoken.  

This Latino concept is accurate when referring to the white supremacists colonialists who control those "Latin" areas of Cemanahuac, but it is fraudulent to refer to the Nican Tlaca as Latino (or Hispanic) since it denies us our true Nican Tlaca identity and it is a form of genocide that denies us our true history, culture, and identity. So, no to Latin, Latino, or Latinx!

Chantli is the actual word for house or home, not calli.

Calli means structure:  acalli (water structure: boat); teocalli (sacred structure: a sacred building). Calli in the our Mexica calendar system shows a teocalli (temple), not a house where someone lives). This is a common error found in most books, like "Aztec": Our people who were the people of Tenochtitlan, the Mexica, never called themselves "Aztecs",  

Same goes for Quetzal as in Quetzalcoatl, which does NOT mean "Feathered Serpent".  Quetzal means precious or beautiful. Ihuitl means feather.  Coatl is a homonyms that can mean either serpent or twin. Or it can have alternating or simoultaneous meaning of serpent and twin, depending on the context. 

Tlazocahmati (thank you),