Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Aztatl>Re: [NetworkAztlan_News] Update: my South Valley struggle for liberation

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Companero Aztatl ~Sounds like you are in a bizarre situation. Hard to pin down with boots on the ground. I would say you might be better off moving into an area that is more hospitable for you. We should be aware enough not to universalize our personal experience. It seem like the local folk have you 'profiled'. I don't drink alcohol so I will toast you back with a cup of hot canela.

With all the Email addresses here I hope you get some tangible feedback in relation to a possible relocation. We know that wherever we go there we are. Make sure that any issues you have that hamper your spiritual growth are not unresolved and just create another situation where you need to resolve inherent contradictions.

Venceremos! We Will Win!

Peta_de_Aztlan
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Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Update: my South Valley struggle for liberation

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From: Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Subject: Update: South Valley struggle for independence
To: aztatlxikano@gmail.com


This here is an update on the situation where I live. Friends have urged me to look for another place to move into. It would be the easy thing to do but after awhile a similar situation would soon develope at the new place. So with your help I think I shall remain and seek to adjust the living situation here. All across this country peace activists, and labor and community organizers are being harrassed for our stance on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The internet is a good organizing tool. This is why in Egypt and Libya attempts have been made to control the airways. I have enjoyed the support of many friends across the country.
 
"please, please save the football
 tactics for the grid iron"  Charlie Chan
 
Jan. 22, 2011  No water to the apartment 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.  I informed the landlord but have yet to hear on cause.
 
Feb. 4, 2011 to Feb. 7, 2011  No water to the apartment. Thanks for the help from neighbors I accumulated 10 gallons plus a 7 gallon container of water. 
 
New neighbor moved in across the street. Second day there he and his friends were making fun of me, cat calling and whistling the way some men do to gain a woman's attention. A week later a neighbor who lives down the street called Animal Protection on the new neighbor because she said she observed the man grab one of the puppies by the head and toss it from the front porch to land against the steel fence surrounding the yard. The dog cried from the pain. Animal protection appeared and warned the family. A month later I observed the same person grab a puppie from the scruff of the neck and toss it into the back seat of his truck. The gate was left open as it usually is so the poor animal wanted to go along for a ride. The small dogs go in and out of the yard at will. The street is a busy intersection. I have 3 rescued dogs from such abuse so I called Animal Protection. They in turn sent out Animal Control. 

Now the neighbour has his friends driving fast in front of my house, squealing tires and honking horns (strangers who race into and out of my driveway every day without stopping), staring at me daring me to respond.
 
Another neighbor who lives on Gatewood not far from my apartment also began showing up on Nashville in front of my house, racing down the street and honking his horn. He knows the animal abuser and he knows my political views. He lives off Geiger and Gatewood. Recently he accosted another neighbor of ours using abusive language because she is a community organizer. Some people who live across the street from him nearly ran me over last week. 

The neighbor is friends with the family who lives on a one block long city street that dead ends. The neighbors approached me about walking my dog on their private street. They said Geiger Street is not a public street and asked that I cease from using the street to walk my dog. The street is a public street. 
 
Another neighbor across the driveway from me is in collusion with the dog abuser as well. He is angry because when I first moved in he gave me a computer that was broken. I invested $625 to fix it. Two months later I signed onto a provider when my neighbor said we could each share the cost of the service. He paid half the cost. Then he asked for the pin code.  I refused because I do not give that out to anyone. This led to his friendship with the neighbor who was recently evicted for harrassing me and almost running me down with her car. This same neighbor is presently in collusion with the dog abuser.
 
Not many people know the full story of the eviction of the neighbor who for the six months harrassed, threatened and who also called me a Mexican faggot. Consequently I think that bits of this knowledge leads to rumor and gossip.
 
I think I am being harrassed currently for a number of reasons, including racism,
ageism and homophobia, although I am not gay (as if my sexual preference is ever anybody's business but mine). New Mexico remains a living contradiction due to deep seated historical differences between the European powers which entered the area of the United States to colonize, and the indigenous nations already living here for thousands of years previous. My standing as a Mexican grandfather who still chooses to wear his hair long and who cannot afford to own an automobile, one who walks our streets with a back pack filled with recently perchased groceries is an embarrassment to the community. Some people who do not appreciate nor acknowledge a mixed blood living amoung them would prefer that half breeds no longer existed. The jails and prisons are filled with persons of one color or another.
 
 I am Xikano and Coahuila. And both at the same time. I feel that the blood and thoughts of both nations coarse through my innards.
A Spotted Eagle chant and a teswin y tequila toast to you all...

aztatl
 
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ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011 http://youtu.be/4Z9WVZddH9w (Please RT)
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@starZship That's why they're DICs. I want to understand why people let themselves become so vulnerable. Go Deeper/
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RT @wikileaks: WikiLeaks goes after the Saudi Royal Family http://is.gd/xtJOy4
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@DalaiLama I see the magic key is love for others ~this creates ripples and waves of love from within outward.
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VIA @DalaiLama: .....the more courage we have, the more relaxed and serene we'll be.
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#CALIFORNIA Well-dressed students march on Sacramento ~oppose $1.4 billion cuts to higher education: http://bit.ly/eDpbwB
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#EGYPT ~2/26/2011~ Factbox: Proposed changes to Egypt's constitution: http://reut.rs/fAiZUL
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#MEXICO Targets drug cartel cell accused of agent's killing: http://bit.ly/edIWt7 #DrugWar
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@starZship Yes, we need to go deeper. Why do some peoples seem to attract a dictator and others do not? Parental need?
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#MEXICO 4 die in daylight shooting in Mexico ~March 1, 2011: http://bit.ly/f5JLKH ~an on-going war
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#PAKISTAN 2/24/2011 Suspected drone strikes kill at least seven in Pakistan http://bit.ly/foanCn #drone
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True, Ghadaffy is insane, but the idea of US Military trying to do a surgical drone strike on Ghadaffy is even more insane.
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#LIBYA RT @venanalysis: Venezuelan Government Rejects Possible Intervention in Libya http://tinyurl.com/6ayxzd4 #VENEZUELA
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@donnapoteclark Sharing is caring. It is a truism that knowledge is power ~we also need to investigate our sources too.
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#KENYA VIDEO 5:00 ~2/24/2011~ Urban Refugees: Access to Education http://youtu.be/eg3-nuyipCk #HELP
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Why are so many of the answers on the U.S. citizenship test wrong? By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica: http://slate.me/gScbAm
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#Libya rebels, regime loyalists in standoff: http://wapo.st/eDHk4H ~Battle for Tripoli
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#IRAQ September 2007 shooting in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide, now known as Xe, left at least 17 people dead
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#IRAQ Briton jailed in Iraq for killings ~spared death penalty ~jailed 20 years: http://bit.ly/h9RGpB
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#YEMEN 'to declare unity government' ~Beleagured president to make announcement "within next 24 hours" http://bit.ly/gIZ0SD
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#OMAN Looting reported amid Oman protests: http://bit.ly/fOBILc VIA @AJEnglish
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3/01/2011 Gaddafi's friend turns foe: Libya's former interior minister ~supports revolution ~leads growing rebel army: http://bit.ly/gMNFzv
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#REVOLUTION #READ ~2/24/2011~ In the Middle East protests, a seismic shift by Fareed Zakaria: http://bit.ly/h6IDGL
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@Masriyah25 In othe words, we cannot just get rid of certain foul leaders, we must also develop and raise consciousness.
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@Masriyah25 Why did all these fascist fools stay in power? Repression yes, but people often suffer until they reach a breakout point.
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@Masriyah25 No argument against learning a new language or improving our language skills in general. #LATISM
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VIDEO 2:23 ~2/25/2011~ Wisconsin Assembly GOP Stifles Debate: http://bit.ly/gLrkTj
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Money Mondays: The best investment: Another language ~by Elianne Ramos: http://bit.ly/dQyAiO VIA @ergeekgoddess #LATISM
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@Masriyah25 Leaders reflect their people's in different ways ~like a cultural-national personality ~look at Hitler!
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'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Star Jane Russell Dies: http://bit.ly/eU5AyI ~Rest In Peace!
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RT @Laura_Molina: Johnny Depp goes native for Tonto: http://bit.ly/eOhtPC ~Hope he knows Indians are from India!
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Exclusive Interview With Gadhafi's Sons: http://abcn.ws/gaTLiD ~Link VIA @FreeLibya
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@Masriyah25 We could be preying for him! He will get his just desserts. Karma always catches up. Ill delusional man.
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@Raul_Ramos Yes, I understood it some in Spanish but when possible we need to go bi-lingual. We want more!!!! #LATISM
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@Masriyah25 I admit I do not pray for Ghadaffy ~his life has its lessons for all of us ~who let him stay in power so long??!!
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Why does the US Govt via H. Clinton post as a mortal authority as it engages in immoral wars as in Afghanisnam?
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Second thoughts ~Forgive me for wishing the demise of Ghadaffy or anyone to the point of death, but his stubbornness irks me.
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#LIBYA U.S., Europe move to help Libya uprising; Gadhafi digs in: http://bit.ly/ijklc3 ~He needs to be buried!
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#Immigrants more inclined to use tablet computers, study shows: http://bit.ly/i3U9v1
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#Immigration Reform: The view from the faith side ~Broken Immigration System: http://bit.ly/g2ayy1
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#IMMIGRANT Canada third in global study on welcoming immigrants: http://bit.ly/fYHz12
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#IMMIGRANT Raucous week for Arizona immigration law hearing: http://bit.ly/dSAbbv
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#IMMIGRANT Fading hope for immigrants ~Arizona bill brings unfathomable propositions to table: http://bit.ly/i8ljQj
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Lawsuit: Company Sought to Hire Illegal Immigrants: http://abcn.ws/hY3i1l
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Rennison Castillo Gets Apology and $400,000 After Government Wrongly Tries to Deport Him: http://bit.ly/fcNQoV #ICE
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#IMMIGRANT Georgia panel advances Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration: http://bit.ly/flzVKP #AmnestyNow
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VIA @APassion4Jazz: "It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
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RT @TheAngryindian: Protests Spread to Oman http://goo.gl/fb/vF3RF
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#LIBYA International Pressure on Qaddafi Intensifies: http://nyti.ms/gX5OAj
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RT @wikileaks: Lies, lovers and Mercenaries in Kenya's politics: http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2006/03/06NAIROBI1077.html
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RT @wikileaks: The WikiLeaks News & Views Blog for Monday, Day 93 http://is.gd/V2HkLB
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#LIBYA Pix: Opponents of Ghadaffy chanted slogans in the center of Zawiya, Libya, on Sunday: http://nyti.ms/dPZ3Yz
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RT @indigenous_news: Judge Dismisses Sinixt Petition. Sunshine Logging Cleared To log @ Perry Ridge wilderness preserve http://is.gd/7CPcxI
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#OMAN Protests intensify as Sultan struggles to appease demonstrators: http://bit.ly/eNr9Bp
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Monday, February 28, 2011

On Being A Chicano de Aztlán @Peta_de_Aztlan

On Being A Chicano de Aztlán @Peta_de_Aztlan

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Let us use the power of 'the word' in order to better define and comprehend connected reality. We must learn how to make 'the word' meaningful for us, so that is makes common sense for us, so that is serves us in our lives. It is the sacred right of the corporate slave to define himself in relation to his own liberation, not blindly accept the definitions of the corporate master.


There are different kinds of definitions for a given word. A lexical definition of a word is used in a standard dictionary or profession; a stipulative definition of a word is one we assign a novel meaning to for our own usage, local idiom  or slang; and a scientific definition that could be subject to various meanings.


To begin with, I am first and foremost a humane being of the dominant race of human beings, the modern life species known taxonomically as Homo sapiens. There are no separate distinct races of Black, Brown, Yellow or White. Concepts and terms around races of people are social ideas, social inventions and social constructions.


Social racism is conditioned into the whole social system with institutional and further embedded by cultural racism. For many, racism seems to be as natural as breathing. Racism is still utilized by repressive ruling circles to keep the masses divided and conquered along false racial lines. Wars have been fought and people have been killed because of being a member of one social race or another. It will take long generations to weed it out of our collective psyche.


Nevertheless, we are all human beings of the same humane family.

Those of us with a higher level of liberated consciousness are more highly evolved along spiritual pathways. We have become humane, that is, we have true care, concern and loving compassion for all living beings. We are not limited by superficial labels, the classification of categories or the greater or lesser concentration of melanin in our skin color. At birth we are born innocent and ignorant as humane beings. It is objective social conditions that change our self-concept, cultural outlook and world view. Much of what we view as racism is actually a kind of cultural superiority complex.


In relation to my ethnic/racial identity I am a Chicano of Aztlan. Chicano was a popular term first used widely by Chicano activists in the early Chicano Movement of Aztlán in the late 1960s and early 1970s.


I stipulate that a Chicano is a multi-cultural indigenous native and U.S. citizen of Mexican descent. His self-identity is neither fully Mexican nor fully American. He exists in a kaleidoscope of clashing cultures in the USA. A Chicano is of a lost tribe who has been abandoned by his Mother Country of Mexico yet is still not fully accepted into American society. In a way, he is an alienated alien who usually does not immerse himself in Mexican culture nor is he comfortable in only White American culture. It's complicated!


As a Chicano of Aztlán I think of the U.S. southwest as Aztlán in recognition of the ancient name for these lands.


Aztlán (from Nahuatl: Aztlān, pronounced [ˈastɬaːn]) is the mythical ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. Aztec is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan".

Some Chicanos consider all of United States as Aztlán. Many Native tribes and Native rights activists refer to North America as Turtle Island.


The ideal here is that we who are of the original indigenous native peoples of these lands have the natural right to call these lands whatever term or terms we choose, not the European conquerors.

Keep in mind the origin of the term 'Americas'. Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.


Who has the natural and historical right to name America if not its original natives? How can descendants of original natives of Aztlán ever be considered foreign illegal aliens in their own homeland? Whether I am a U.S. citizen or not does not matter. If my bloodline is of the original peoples of Aztán I cannot possibly be an illegal foreigner in my homeland! It is my birthright to be here now!


Thus, I use the power of the word to define these lands as Aztán, not America. I use the term 'America' instead of Aztlán in conversation so as not to confuse or lose people, especially decent Americans.


Sometimes I spell America as 'Amerika' with a 'k' in remembrance of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). Be sure, White racism is still alive and well. We need to be reminded from time to time.


Racism is widespread inside the USA as a social sickness and mental-disorder. To different degrees social racism is still the norm in Amerika on a conscious level, a subtle semi-conscious level or remains deeply hidden on a sub-conscious level. Social racism still exists among all racial/ethnic groups in the USA and clings to no one color, no matter who is President.


Some non-White people because of an inferiority complex want to be or act like White people and are always seeking the acceptance and approval of the great White mind. It is a form of self-hatred to want to be other than what you are by nature.


For the typical American the above is a lot to wrap the mind around. Social racism remains one of the great divisors in Amerika, along with other great divisions, especially one's economic-class status. We are still in a class society, class struggle continues, sometimes breaking out into class warfare and we do not yet have liberty and justice for all.


As a Chicano of Aztlán I can relate to the term Latinos to describe La Raza Cosmica ~ all those who consider themselves Chicanos, Mexicans, Hispanics or Native peoples of the Americas. Any social term for such a diverse and multi-faceted people is going to be vague and inadequate. It is what it is.


As humane beings we must embrace all of humanity as all of us being of the same family. At the same time we need to also embrace our cultural differences, those qualities and elements of us that make the promises for America and the world more fascinating.


Our world is changing now more than ever. Times are changing all the time. We must be receptive and welcome new creative changes in our lives and upon our global landscape. There are great changes happening all over the world. The winds of liberation are encircling the entire globe. Today there are great sandstorms for democracy and justice sweeping all across Arabia and North Africa.


No matter what we call ourselves on an individual level, let us remember that we are one family upon one planet we call Mother Earth. Always our basic survival needs must come to the forefront of our revolutionary consciousness: food, clothing, shelter, medical care and quality education. We establish governments to create a central structure to help administer to our needs.


When those man-made governments no longer serve our vital interests and refuse to bring about required reforms we have a sacred right to alter or abolish those governments. In the end, a true democracy must be the sacred will of the people in power and with control over their own future destiny.  Venceremos!


Research Links:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Homo+sapiens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlán

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Island_(North_America)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
c/s

 
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Venceremos! We Will Win!
Peta_de_Aztlan
Sacramento, California
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F.Kennedy ~ c/s


Sunday, February 27, 2011

Hermano Henry: THE NAHUATL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE OF THE ANASAZI AND AZTECS FROM UTAH


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Henry Villalobos <aztecs5463@yahoo.com> wrote:

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From: Henry Villalobos <aztecs5463@yahoo.com>
To: info@freePeltiernow.org
Cc: LAkotaHarden@yahoo.com; janeenantoine@mac.com; lenny <lenfoster67@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 5:42:17 AM
Subject: THE NAHUATL NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGE OF THE ANASAZI AND AZTECS FROM UTAH

Nahuatl, belongs to the Uto-Aztecan North American Indian languages. Some Nahuatl words are: Kalli=house, Tlazocamatli=thank you, Tonatiuh=sun, Meztli=moon, Azteka from Aztekatl(meaning from Aztlan in Utah U.S.A., Tlatoa=speak, lkniuhtli=friend, Nehuatl=I, Tehuatl=you, Niltze=hi, Amo=no, Kema=yes, Pisti=black, lchcati=white, Xoxocti=green, Asolti=blue, Chilti=red, Costi=yellow, Axocoti=purple, Cihuatl=woman, Tlacatl=man, Nantlil=mother, Tahtll=father, Lkniuh=brother, Hueltiuh=sister, Cuacualti=beautiful, Papakiliztli=happy, Yollotl=heart, Ltacatl=food, Cintlaolli=corn, Atl=water, Atoyaatl=river, Mixtli=cloud, Ehekatl=wind, Kiauitl=rein, Tletl=fire, Ayauhcozamalotl=rainbow, Cicitlaltin=stars, llhuitl=day, Yoal=night, Axan=today, Coyotl=coyote, Tochtli=rabbit, Coatl=snake, Cuetzpali=lizard, Totol=bird, Cahuayoh=horse, Mazatl=deer, Ozelotl=jaguar, Miztli=lion, Zorrah=fox, Cuetlachtli=wolf, Cuauhtli=eagle, Moxi=vulture, Cuauhtlotli=marsh, Titlatoa Nahuatl?=do you speak Nahuatl?, Kema, Nitlatoa Nahuatl=yes, I speak Nahuatl, Amo, Nitlato Nahuatl=no, I do not speak Nahuatl, Ken Motoka=what is your name?, Nehuatl Notoka=my name is, Kanin Tichanti?=where do you live?, Nehuatl Nichanti=I live, Kenin Otimo Uika=how are you doing?, Hue Kaulli=very good, Kualli=good, Chalchiuitl=jade, Teoxihuitl=turquoise, Canauhtli=duck, Miztli=cat, Papalotl=butterfly, Cuiatl=frog, Ce=one, Ome=two, Yeyi=three, Nahui=four, Macuil=five, Chicuacen=six, Chicome=seven, Chicuei=eight, Chihnahui=nine, Matlactli=ten.
 
IN THE SPIRIT OF ARCHIE FIRE LAME DEER, BOBBY GARCIA, DALLAS THUNDERSHIELD, AMELIA GUZMAN, MARIA GUZMAN MARIN
 
By: Henry Guzman Villalobos (Aztec Native American Indian) Freelance Writer/Researcher/Founder and President of Native American Indians of the Americas Committee.    Hayward, California U.S.A.
 
CC: American Indian Movement (AIM), Native American Nations, Media, General Public,
 

Companero Henry ~ I wish you had or took the time to blog your stuff in a regular blog. I am Monitor with Network-Aztlan News Group on Yahoo but get little feedback and it is mainly only a few people who post there. Check out ~
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/

We are at the stage where we need to reach out to a larger audience, evolve beyond ethnic/racial politics yet not ever forget our roots, which you remind us of in these times.

Check out ~ http://aztlannet-news-blog.blogspot.com/


http://aztlannet-news-blog.blogspot.com/2011/02/re-azteka-mexika-aztec-mexica-native.html

Let us know if you want to be a contributor. Get a Twitter Account. Maybe a Facebook Account. You are here for a reason, responding to your calling. Stay strong with wisdom! More to come and more will be revealed so long as we stay in harmony with Creator. Namaste.
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Don Peta-de-Aztlan
Sacramento, California
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