We Are Mexica
Tehuatzin ti Mexicatl Tehuatzin ti Mexicatl
"eres Mexicano"
"we are Mexica" MEXICA TIAHUI
THE PEOPLE ALWAYS MOVING FORWARD We the indigenous Mexican people of Minnesota wish to make known our extreme dissatisfaction with the actions of the Eurocentric controlled government of the United States of Mexico (Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos) in its recent employment of military force against the indigenous people in the state of Chiapas. We recognize the rights of our Mayan sisters and brothers, as well as that of other indigenous nations in this area to their land. We deplore the illegal efforts of the Mexican government in the expropriation of indigenous land, and the continuing spiritual, economic, and political exploitation of our indigenous brethren. The government of Mexico should immediately negotiate in good faith with the Maya and other indigenous nations and provide redress to their many longstanding and legitimate complaints. We also encourage the media to look beyond the recent actions of the Maya in defense of their homeland, and provide the public with the historical context of this struggle, a struggle that in regard to Mexico began in the year one reed (1519) with the Hispanic invasion of Mexico. To examine this struggle in any other context is, we believe, to ignore the terrible history of oppression that indigenous Mexican people face in the United States of Mexico. We further wish to state that we, as the descendants of the Ancient Mexican cultures and civilizations, have an INALIENABLE RIGHT to identify with our birthright, and do not wish to be characterized as different IN ANY REGARD TO THE "INDIAN" PEOPLE OF MEXICO. It is our assertion that the majority of the Mexican people both here and in Mexico are indigenous people, hence our anger at the treatment of our sisters and brothers whom are struggling to maintain their culture and ownership of their land. | |
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