Historical Research
[ mexika.org ] This is a fantastic video, presented in both Nawatl and Spanish, detailing the ritual known as the “Dance of the Tekwanes.” In Nawatl, Tekwane
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November 9, 2017 // 0 Comments
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] Afrocentric “scholars” are notorious for promoting a false version of world history, in which all civilizations were birthed by black people.
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November 2, 2017 // 1 Comment
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] Did you know that Mexico is home to 62 Indigenous languages? This makes Mexico one of the most linguistically diverse countries on the planet! The
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October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] The origin and antiquity of the words “Chicana” and “Chicano” has been debated from the halls of academia to the streets of the barrio. The advent
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October 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
BOOKS: Friedlander, Judith 1975 Being Indian in Hueyapan: a study of forced identity in contemporary Mexico. St. Martin’s Press, New York. Galinier, Jacques, Lucy
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September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments
[ Kurly Tlapoyawa ] Kurly Tlapoyawa originally presented this lecture at the 2017 Northeastern Group of Nahuatl Scholars conference at Yale University. [Update 2/18/2019:
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June 15, 2017 // 3 Comments
Archaeologists announced this week that the remains of an Aztec ball court and a temple erected to the god of the wind, Ehécatl, have been found on a street behind the
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June 11, 2017 // 0 Comments
For more than two decades, leading Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma directed the excavations of the main Aztec temple, located in the ancient capital of
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April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
The candidate for political office stood in a plaza, naked, bracing himself against the punches and kicks. The crowd roared, pulsing around him like a beating heart. People
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March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico’s native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of salmonella
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February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments