Aztlanahuac: Mesoamerica in North America

Virtual Map Exhibit Tour

Case L-M
 
The Book of the Sun Tonatiuh
By Cecilio Orozco, retired professor, Calif State Univesity, Fresno
 
Professor Orozco has been researching for more than 20 years what he calls “
El Camino de Aztlan.” In his book he posits that there is petroglyph evidence
in Utah of what later became the “Aztec Calendar.”
 
Explorers, Slavers & Traders
By Joseph P.Sanchez
 
The only modern scholar in the United States who has utilized several of the
maps in this exhibit in a discussion of “mythical places.”
 
Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland
Edited by Rodolfo Anaya & Francisco Lomeli
 
Only one of the essays here, by John Chavez, treats the issue of location of
the origins/migrations of the Azteca/Mexica, concluding it is not possible to
know it because the early chroniclers placed it in California, New Mexico and
Florida.
 
The Chaco Meridian
By  Steve Lasken
 
Has postulated that the Anazasi migrated vis astronomy (Chaco, Aztec &
Paquime), as opposed to the traditional search for food and water. He also found
Culiacan to be on the same meridian (unaware that it figures in the Aztec/Mexica
migration stories), positing that followup research needs to be done to see if
there is any significance to its location.
 
Ancient Footprints of Colorado
By Alfredo Figueroa
 
Figueroa, a community scholar and activist, has long posited that the origin
of the Aztec/Mexica was in the lower Colorado basin.
 
Nahui Mitl
By Tlakaele
 
Tlakaele has dedicated his life to finding evidence throughout the continent
of an ancient Toltec Four Arrows migration. Much evidence can be found in
petroglyphs throughout the continent, also noting that place names such as Tulare
and Tularosa are Nahuatl in origin, not Spanish or English. He was present at
indigenous summits that discussed the Treaty of Guadalupe and the 1847
Disturnel map.
 
Do We Belong?
By Daniela Conde, Cynthia Gonzalez & Rosario Luis
 
These three students in the Gonzales/Rodriguez Sacred Geography (Spring 2003)
class examined these maps, chronicles and codices. They and their students
also participated in the gathering of oral histories for evidence of indigenous
origins within their own families.
 
Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (If there's a shortage of space, this one
is optional)
By Roberto Rodriguez
 
Author posits in this 1998 book that part of becoming human necessitates
belonging. A section of the 1847 Disturnell Map – with the Hopi and Aztec sites –
is used as evidence that people of Mexican origin are not aliens to what is
today the United States.
 
Aztecas del Norte
Jack Forbes
 
In this ground breaking work, written in 1965, but published in 1973, Forbes,
one of the nation’s preeminent American Indian scholars, posits that people
of Mexican origin are anashinabe or aboriginal to the continent. He was part of
the Native American Movement in Southern California that first put forth that
idea in 1961, also calling the U.S. Southwest as Aztlan and referring to the
Nahuatl barrio of Analco (Santa Fe, NM) as the birthplace of the Chicano.
 
Cantos al Sexto Sol
Edited by Cecilio Camarillo Garcia, Roberto Rodriguez & Patrisia Gonzales
 
Over 100 poets/writers from throughout the country respond to the theme of
this book: “Going Back to Where We Came from.” It’s part of a (forthcoming)
two-volume set: Codex Aztlanahuac, that examines the subject of this exhibit.

Will be virtually airing on Monday, May 17, 2004...