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today I learned that the Nahuatl word “coyotl” means simultaneously “coyote”, “yellow”, and “mixed race/mixed culture”

Knowing you're native Mexican and wanting to reconnect with your native roots to preserve your cultural identity vs being a no sabo 2nd gen American kid FIGHT

Ahuitzotl

Origin: Aztec and Mayan people (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Western edges of Honduras, Western edges of El Salvador, Nicaragua) The Ahuitzotl looks like a small dog with streaks on its head, small ears and a hand at the tip of its tail. The Ahuitzotl submerges itself in a lake or stream and begin to wail like a small child or a frightened woman. A passerby would hear the sound and would rush to the rescue of the 'victim'. Once approached the water the victim would be strangled by the creature's infamous tail-hand and then the creature would tear out the victim's eyes, nails and teeth and eat them. The Ahuitzotl would then toss the lifeless body onto the riverbank and restart its wailing

I have tíos I never got to know. primos I never got to know. abuelos I never got to know. I have family that is mine, but is not mine. And I can’t dwell on it, or it’ll break me.

being a reconnecting native is very difficult, I feel like especially if you’re like hispanic indigenous, i’m mexican native american and i’m trying to reconnect and find what tribe i’m from but tracking down my lineage on both sides is so hard, i feel stuck and like i don’t know where to start :/

Reconnecting Chicana

tlaxcaltec on my father’s side, raised in an all-white household. firmly messianic jew.

I got beaded earrings for hanukkah!!

Stone Statue from Tlaxcala, Mexico dated between 1000-1500 on display at the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Austria

The nose jewellery on the figure indicates his extremley elevated rank. Similar figures were excavated from Tula, once the capital of the Toltec Empire and home of the legendary ruler Quetzalcoatl. The Aztecs, Tlaxcaltecs and other Mesoamerican states revered and collected objects from the Toltecs and copied the Toltec style in their own art.

Photographs taken by myself 2022

none of these returned ANYTHING pertaining to me :/