SONG FOR THE NICAN TLACA CHILD
Yes my child, my beautiful child,
we are Nican Tlaca.
White people falsely call us “Indians”.
"Indians" are the people of India.
We are Nican Tlaca,
the people of this land,
the people of this whole continent.
We are
the people of this continent,
what the white people falsely call
“North and South America”, “the Americas”.
In our language we are Nican Tlaca
meaning the people of this land,
meaning the people of this continent.
The Full-blood
and the Mixed-blood (the so-called Mestizos)
are Nican Tlaca, we are one people, one nation.
We are Nican Tlaca.
Our continent is called Cem-ana-huac:
Cemanahuac.
We Nican Tlaca, all of us are one people,
we jointly own
all of the lands
of Cemanahuac.
We are one people.
Yes my child this is our land, all of the continent,
it is all ours.
This is not the land of the Europeans,
not the lands of white people.
The lands of the white people are in Europe.
Europe is their homeland.
They are here against our will,
we did not welcome them to steal our lands.
They came here to kill us, to steal all our lands,
to enslave our people, to steal our wealth.
They came to make us slaves,
to kill us, to steal all our lands,
they did many evils things to us,
and they will not leave our lands,
they will not leave
because they are making themselves rich
from stealing our wealth.
They are wealthy because they are stealing
our oil and gold, our ore and other valuable minerals.
They make great profit from our farmlands,
from our forests, from our rivers.
They make great profits from our continent.
All of them:
the Anglos, the Criollos, the other Europeans on our lands.
The Anglos, the English ones, falsely call us “illegals”.
The Criollos, the Spaniard ones, falsely call us “Hispanics and Latinos”.
They are trying to destroy us as a people.
They force us to be what we are not.
It is called genocide what they do.
Genocide is what they have been doing to us for 500 years.
They want to pretend that we don’t exist anymore.
They want to keep us forever as their slaves.
They want to forever keep us ignorant of truth,
ignorant of our true history, our true identity as Nican Tlaca.
They profit from our ignorance.
They have great homes on our lands,
great business buildings, great industries,
all from the wealth and lands they stole from us.
They are the wealthiest people on our continent
while they keep our people in poverty,
in misery, in a very bad dehumanized condition.
They have no shame, no guilt for what they have done to us.
They plan to never let us have our lands back.
They plan for us to be without our lands, without our wealth
for eternity.
We are a lost and ignorant people
because we have no true history told
of our great accomplishments, of our ownership of our lands.
We are made to feel like foreigners on our own land,
falsely made to feel inferior,
while they falsely make themselves feel superior.
They lie about history.
They lie about whose lands these are.
They lie about how they acquired our lands.
They used smallpox to kill our people.
They killed 70 to 100 million of our people
using smallpox as their weapon of choice.
They then enslaved the few of our people who survived.
They forced their ownership on our lands.
They forced their blood into some of our people.
They forced us to speak their languages, Spanish and English.
They forced their names, their religion, their culture on us.
They destroyed our cities and civilizations.
They destroyed our schools and universities.
They destroyed our warrior societies
and the temples where we studied and acknowledged
Our Creator, the Creator of the Universe.
This and many other crimes they did to us,
attempting to destroy us, to exterminate us.
They cut our hair and cut our connections to our heritage.
All of this is wrong.
It is genocide.
It is all evil, immoral,
not the way people should be,
not the way good people behave.
Yes my child, my lovely one,
we have no other land but this land,
only this land is our land,
only this continent is our nation.
We have nowhere else to go on this planet,
nowhere else to call our homeland.
But we are made to feel like fools, like orphans,
lost in the world that the whiteman has forced on us.
We are so damaged from 500 years of terror
from the Europeans.
We are so damaged from 500 years of ignorance
that we do not know how to behave.
We are kept ignorant of truth, of true justice.
We are taught to love all things European,
to want to be like Europeans,
because we do not know how to be ourselves.
We are taught to hate ourselves,
the lies of what "ourselves" is.
We are kept in self-hate,
taught to be in love with the gangs that kill our people,
taught to only want money and sex, only to be cowards,
and traitors to our people.
We have been made to be non-thinkers, to stay ignorant,
to want to stay ignorant, to only follow sports,
to think of the ignorance and stupidity
that comes to us from TV.
We have been taught to only listen to non-think music,
music to numb us, music to waste our lives away.
We are taught to crave all the promotions of materialism
of the capitalist world, of the colonialist world,
of the white controlled world.
We are doomed and damned to stay this way
forever.
All seems hopeless for our people,
but that is not true.
There is hope.
We will change the world of our people my little one,
you will grow up to change all of this
to bring our people back to their rightful place
within the rest of humanity.
You and your children will know honor, will know dignity,
will know freedom from European colonialism.
There will be no more white supremacy in the future of our people.
Today, Europeans pretend that our land is their land.
Europeans pretend as if we have no rights to our lands,
no right to complain,
no right to think,
no right to demand our lands back.
But this is our home, our lands.
This is our homeland.
And we are under occupation,
our lands are controlled by Europeans,
our people are enslaved to the white race.
But this continent is our nation.
We are one people, one nation.
We are divided by their borders on our lands.
We are divided by the rapes of centuries.
We are cut off from our history of great civilizations.
We are cut off from our ancestors.
We are cut off from our culture.
We are cut off
from the embrace of our motherland, our continent.
We are cut off from our full humanity
of being a free people.
We are cut off from
prospering from the wealth of our continent.
But that will change, those evils
will not be part of the future of our people.
You my child will be part of the education and liberation
of our people.
Yes my child, my little one,
my loved one, we live in bad times,
but these times of colonialism will pass,
you will grow up to be a teacher of truth,
a warrior-defender of our people.
Men and women warriors will teach truth
and demand justice, will achieve justice
and liberation for our people.
Yes my child, future warrior of our people,
this whole continent is our homeland, our nation.
The white people have Europe as their lands, their homeland.
The African people have Africa.
The Asians have Asia.
We only have these lands,
this continent for all our people:
we are one people,
full-blood and mixed-blood;
with no borders on our lands.
We are the only people of our Nican Tlaca nation,
we are the only true people of this continent,
the only true owners.
We are the only ones who can say who can
stay and who can go on our lands.
We have no other lands in the world
but our lands, our continent here.
The European natives on our lands
have Europe as their homeland.
We are in dark times, in times of ignorance,
in times of disgrace and dishonor.
But that will change.
We, you, our people will change all things
for the better
so that our people can live free.
Yes my child, you will learn and learn
all your life.
You will learn truth,
you will learn to demand truth,
to demand justice
because this is our land,
this is our continent.
We have no other homeland.
The European natives on our continent,
the "white people",
have Europe
as their homeland.
The African-descent people have Africa
as their homeland.
Asians have their homelands
in Asia.
Only we can say who stays and who goes
from our lands, from our continent.
We will not be doomed
to forever be an occupied people,
slaves of the European natives on our lands.
We will not be
a free bank for the Europeans to make wealth from our lands,
a toilet for Europeans to destroy our environment,
and we will not allow ourselves to be
a people doomed to forever serve
the needs of European natives on our lands.
We only have these lands,
this beautiful continent
to call our home, our nation.
We have the right to demand our lands back.
We have the right to demand freedom from Europeans.
We have the right to demand the end of European occupation;
the end of European natives
squatting on our lands
and stealing the wealth of our continent.
Yes my good child, my beautiful child,
my little hummingbird, huitzilin.
Huitzilin means hummingbird in Nahuatl,
one of the languages of our ancestors.
We prized the beauty of the hummingbird.
But you are also my magnificent butterfly, papalotl,
Papalotl mean butterfly in Nahuatl.
Before the Europeans invaded our continent,
we were a great people
of grand ancient civilizations,
of beautiful cities,
with our own scientists and doctors,
universities and observatories.
Don’t believe their lies that we were savages,
that we had no accomplishments,
that we were all about human sacrifices,
all about primitive behavior.
Those are the lies that the European natives on our lands
tell themselves to feel good about their crimes,
to feel good about keeping us as their slaves.
The truth is that we were more advanced than Europe
in many ways.
Our cities were bigger than the cities of Europe.
Our civilizations were older than those of Europe.
We had many accomplishments that we should be proud of,
but we do not know these things.
We need to learn the beauty of all of what is our history
and our heritage of great accomplishments and genius.
We had astronomers dedicated to watching the stars and the sun;
writers to tell the history of our people,
poets and singers
to tell of our heroes, to tell of our relationship
with Our Creator.
Our Creator is
the one who is the true Mother-Father of us all,
the Creator of The Universe.
Our Creator is nothing like the make believe white gods of the Europeans:
Jesus, the old white man God, Mary, the saints, angels, and devils.
Our Creator is seen in the reality all around us.
Our Creator is seen in the space of the universe,
in the matter that makes stars and planets,
in the movements of star, planets, and the life of the universe.
Our Creator is not a "belief".
Our Creator can be see all around us as Our Mother the Earth
that holds us, feeds us, gives humanity birth in the universe.
Our Creator can be see as Our Father in the Sky,
the sky that warms us in the day,
that holds the earth in its hands,
that is the mover of all of life in the universe.
Yes my good child, my beautiful child,
my little jaguar, ocelotl.
Ocelotl is the word for jaguar
in our Nahuatl language.
You are also my little eagle, cuauhtli.
Cuauhtli is the word for eagle.
Ocelotl and Cuauhtli are the metaphors,
another way of saying warriors,
the honorable warriors for our people.
We had our own warriors when we were free.
We have no warriors now.
We live as if we are slaves.
The soldiers of Mexico serve the Criollos.
Criollos are the few European natives that control Mexico.
The same goes for what is called “South America”
and the rest of our continent.
My beautiful child, my love,
you who are the future of our people,
we are a people without warriors,
a people without defenders.
European natives take advantage of that fact.
They created that fact by massacring our warriors
when they had no weapons.
They created the fact that we have no warriors,
no defenders of our people.
They want to continue leaving us defenseless.
We will soon have our warrior societies
of men and women.
You will be part of the future warriors of our people,
the defenders of our people,
the ones who confront our enemies,
the ones who confront the traitors.
Yes my beautiful turquoised child, my xihuitl.
Xihuitl means turquoise in Nahuatl.
you are part of the future teachers of our people,
you are part of the future warriors for our people.
In our past, before the Europeans,
we had astronomers mark the movements of stars,
to count the days of star movements
in order to make calendars, to understand time.
Today we must mark the time
with how much we learn and how much we teach,
with how well we are becoming warriors for our people.
In the past before the Europeans invaded
and committed their crimes on us, and enslaved us,
we were living in a time where
our government that was fair and our people were
very much in love with Our Creator.
In that past time, mathematics was important to us:
to count our people, to count the corn, to measure land.
We had also had architects and engineers to design our buildings,
to build our cities, to make roads and bridges.
We had artists to make our statues, to paint our pictures,
to make our pottery, to design our clothes.
We had laws and lawyers, judges and courts
to keep justice, to make new laws.
We had all of this with a great love for books.
and libraries to put them in; schools and universities;
and so much, so much more.
So yes, my beautiful child,
be good, be studious, be honorable,
think not of selfish things
but think of what is good for all our people;
think all your life of gaining knowledge and honor
and not of gaining wealth or materials things.
Our ancestors will be smiling on you
when you become part of
the education for the liberation of our people.
Our ancestors will be proud of you
when they see you defending our people
by promoting truth, demanding justice, demanding liberation.
Yes, we have a beautiful past
and a beautiful liberated future waiting for us,
but for now
we must do everything we can to end
colonialism and white supremacy in our lives.
We must work for this liberation
with all our thoughts,
in all our work, in all our moments, in all of the years
that Our Creator has given us to live.
Olin Tezcatlipoca,
Olin Tezcatlipoca Copyright © 2019
Olin Tezcatlipoca,
Founder and Director of Mexica Movement Nican Tlaca Nation
Nelyollotl Toltecatl,
Director of Mexica Movement Nican Tlaca Nation
Yaocuicatl Chimalyaotl
Co-Director Mexica Movement Nican Tlaca Nation
Introduction To The Materials of The Mexica Movement:
Lectures of Olin Tezcatlipoca