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Journey from Aztlán

Keith Scott: The American Association of Anthropology doesn’t have finitive standards for anthropology education. For now, we need to draw from related disciplines within the social studies. Journey from Aztlán. Keith Scott:

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Journey from Aztlán

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  1. Keith Scott: The American Association of Anthropology doesn’t have finitive standards for anthropology education. For now, we need to draw from related disciplines within the social studies. Journey from Aztlán

  2. Keith Scott: 1. Territory of Alta California2. Sonora and Sinaloa3. Territory of Baja California4. Territory of Nuevo Mexico5. Chihuahua6. Coahuila and Texas7. Durango8. Nuevo León9. Jalisco10. Zacatecas11. San Luis Potosí12. Tamaulipas13. Territory of Colima14. Guanajuato15. Querétaro16. Veracruz17. Michoacán18. México19. Tlaxcala20. Puebla21. Oaxaca22. Soconusco23. Chiapas24. Tabasco25. Yucatán Keith Scott: Map of Mexico prior to Mexican American War, 1848 1. Territory of Alta California 2. Sonora and Sinaloa 4. Territory of Nuevo Mexico 5. Chihuahua 6. Coahuila and Texas

  3. Keith Scott: Drawing from a related discipline, the movement of these people are best understood within the realm of human, or cultural, geography. Around 800 A.D., or perhaps even as late as the 1200s, a group of people immigrated to the Valley of México from the legendary land of Aztlán—thought to be in northern México or the American Southwest, perhaps in the four corners area.

  4. Keith Scott:Linguistics is a discipline within anthropology The Aztec language, Nahuátl, and the language spoken by the Pueblo Indians are related. The Aztécs and the Pueblo may have a common ancestor in the Anasazi, a people who disappeared 7000 years ago. A million people, mostly in México, still speak Nahuátl, but that number is dropping. FYI...

  5. Keith Scott: Within the discipline of history, it’s fair to say that the Aztécs made a little bit on their way to the valley. But back to our wandering tribe….They were not usually welcomed wherever they went, and were derisively referred to as Chichimecs. At one time they were enslaved by another tribe. They called themselves Méxica. We know them as the Aztecs. They developed a reputation as fierce fighters.

  6. Keith Scott: The Aztecs were extremely motivated in the hereafter, owing to the harshness of their lives along the way to Mexico. Warfare was valued, and warriors who died in battle were immediately taken into heaven. A woman could also be taken immediately into heaven if she died in childbirth. Their religion developed, too, with a pantheon of gods led by the sun god, Huitzilipochtli, a warrior god Who required human sacrifice. Aztéc legend has it that Huitzilipochtli is the god who urged them on to the place where they would build Tenochtitlán.

  7. Keith Scott: The church did its best to transform pagan holidays and practices into Christian observances. Day of the Dead was subsumed by All Saints Day, though it still retains its original devotion and practice, for the most part. The religion emphasized the dark side of human experience. One early celebration, which has developed into the current celebration of Día de los Muertos can be traced to the festivities held during the Aztéc month of Miccailhuitontli, ritually presided over by the goddess Mictecacihuatl ("Lady of the Dead"), and dedicated to children and the dead.

  8. Keith Scott: The item in the corner is an Aztéc calendar, a complicated mathematical device that still isn’t completely understood. • Aztéc prophecies told them that they would find a new home and that there would be signs. Those signs included— • an eagle • a snake • a cactus An Aztéc Calendar

  9. On their journey they discovered an eagle, clutching a snake, perched upon a cactus on an island in a shallow lake in the Valley of México. It was a swampy mess, and they had to build their city by driving logs into the swamp to create foundations. Their produce gardens floated on masses of reeds and mud called chinampas.

  10. Keith Scott: The Spaniards thought Tenochtitlan was repugnant, so they built over it. Even today builders are still unearthing parts of the original city. Perhaps their disgust found its roots in such things as devotional walls of skulls, or pyramids designed so that sacrificed blood would actually flow off their four corners. There they built the city of Tenochtitlán, which is now called México City.

  11. Wall of Skulls: The Catédral Metropolitana was built by the Spaniards in the 1520's on top of the site of the Aztecs' Wall of Skulls, which was like an alter they put skulls of the sacrificed on.

  12. The image of eagle, cactus, and snake serves as Mexico’s Great Seal, which is displayed in the center of the Mexican flag.

  13. Keith Scott: • A hearth in geographical terms may be a homeland or place of significance revered by a particular culture. What other hearths can you think of? • Kosovo • Israel • Palestine • It does not have to be a place where the people live anymore. The Aztéc Empire disappeared -- but not the people. This current map shows modern-day México. The hearth of the Aztécs is now in the United States.

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