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{{Short description|American/Mexican indigenous rights organization}}
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The '''[[Mexica]] Movement''' is an "Indigenous rights educational organization" based in [[Los Angeles, California]]. Their organization views Mexicans of [[Native Mexican]] and [[Amerindian]] descent, as one people who are falsely divided by European-imposed borders. Their ultimate objective is the non-violent, democratic "liberation" of the [[Western Hemisphere]] from European-descendants. The organization seeks to create a future nation called [[Cemanahuac]]. The group views "White" people as Europeans who are [[squatting]] on [[Indigenous peoples|Indigenous]] lands, and who must be repatriated back to Europe.  The group rejects the "[[Aztlán#Use by the Chicano movement|Aztlán ideology]]" as being too limited, seeking instead to unite the entire American continents under Indigenous control.

==Name and origin==
The name [[Mexica]] is derived from the Nahuatl word ''Mēxihcah'' ({{IPA|nah|meːˈʃiʔkaʔ}}), the name the [[Aztec]]s used for themselves.{{CN|date=May 2025}}

The organization is named after the [[Mexica]] (a.k.a. [[Aztec]]) civilization. This civilization is seen as the best chance from which the continent's indigenous-descent peoples can reconstruct themselves as a nation, similar to the way that modern Italians unified their nation under Roman-Italic identity and the Tuscan dialect.{{CN|date=May 2025}}

Nican Tlaca (literally meaning "Man Here") was first used in an ethnic context in the book ''We People Here'' by John Lockhart (who was the first person to create Nican Tlaca as an identity).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lockhart|first1=John|title=We people here : Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico|date=1993|publisher=Berkeley, University of California Press|isbn=9780520078758|pages=335}}</ref> Nican Tlaca is grammatically incorrect. Contemporary native Nahuatl speakers are dumbfounded by it since it is incomplete. In ancient text, it was used as a pronoun, not as an ethnic group as the Mexica Movement claim.<ref>Samuel Tecpaocelotl Castillo, [http://tecpaocelotl.livejournal.com/37423.html ""Nican Tlaca" Is An Incorrect Term"], ''Mexica History'', 06/01/16</ref>

==See also==
*[[Indigenismo]]
**[[Indigenismo in Mexico]]
**[[Indigenismo in the United States]]
*[[Manifest Destiny]]

==Further reading==

* Arturo Chang. 2021. "[[doi:10.1111/ajps.12660|Restoring Anáhuac: Indigenous Genealogies and Hemispheric Republicanism in Postcolonial Mexico.]]" ''American Journal of Political Science''.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://mexicamovement.blogspot.com/ Olin Tezcatlipoca blog]

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