What in the heck is Aztlan?

Question

I've seen the word before on here and have no idea what it means.

Answer 1

The Nation of Aztlan (NOA), first organized in the early 1990s, is a California-based Hispanic nationalist organization that claims to represent the desires and aspirations of the Hispanic community. The organization calls for the United States to return "Aztlan" territory - Aztlan being the mythic homeland of the Mexican people, or Aztecs, which according to legend is found in the American Southwest or Northern Mexico. The group's nationalist message is blurred by frequent appeals anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, homophobia and other expressions of hatred.

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Under the euphuism 'Hispanic Homeland' and 'Nation of Aztlan,' activists from numerous organizations including Mexican American Legal Defense and La Raza (The Race) activists are attempting to annex large portions of SW United States to Mexico. "Republica del Norte," the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado, along with several current Mexican states, is "an inevitability" says Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico. He further states the new "Hispanic Homeland" should be brought into being "by any means necessary."

The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), and the National Immigration Forum (NIF) whose names imply grassroots organizations reflecting the will of American Hispanics, do not represent mainstream American Hispanic opinion. Rather, they speak only in their own best interests, favoring the mass immigration that gives them more constituents they can then profess to represent. Polls show that Hispanic-Americans, like all Americans, support stronger enforcement of our immigration laws.

A 'Hispanic Homeland' could be written off as the work of extremists were it not for wide-spread support by Mexicans. A June 2002 Zogby poll of Mexicans found that a substantial majority of Mexican citizens believe that southwestern America is rightfully the territory of Mexico and that Mexicans do not need the permission of the U.S. to enter. The poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "The territory of the United States' southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren't sure.
http://www.illegalaliens.us/aztlan.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkAP_M4ZAM

http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

http://www.azteca.net/aztec/aztlan.html

http://www.americanpatrol.com/MECHA/AZTLAN.html

http://www.adl.org/Learn/Aztlan/default.asp

Answer 2

Aztlan is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. "Azteca" is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan."

Answer 3

The mythical homeland of the Aztecs and related peoples. Possibly based on a real place somewhere in northern Mexico or the south-western USA, or possibly not. A matter of slight archealogical significance, magnified by political oportunists into a movement determined to carve a new nation by that name out of those regions of the USA and Mexico.

Answer 4

theoretically 30,000 years ago different bands of indigenous peoples crossed the Behring straits onto the continent of the Americas. for the next 20,000 years groups disperse throughout north, central, and south America, learned to cultivate the land, and create different forms of civilizations.

a group of warriors known as the Mexicas prospered well in the land of Tenochtitlan which is current day Mexico city. these people knew that their ancestors had come from a holy land of the north. the land known as Aztlan, which is present day the U.S. Southwest is regarding as the original land of the Aztecs!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

A Yahoo Search: define Aztlan

will get multiple answers.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Its Nahuatl for toilet no really its supposed to be a legend based that the entire US southwest was called Aztlan. You want to stay away from that word because its almost the equivalent of saying Aryan nation. Aztlan movement is very racist and very anti-white.

Answer 7

Its kind of like Oz, and you will not find it on any world map. It lives in the mind of Mexicans.

Answer 8

It is the legendary paradise home of the Aztecs.