TheMexica Movement is an "Indigenous rights educational organization" based inLos Angeles, California. Their organization views Mexicans ofNative Mexican andAmerindian descent, as one people who are falsely divided by European-imposed borders. Their ultimate objective is the non-violent, democratic "liberation" of theWestern Hemisphere from European-descendants. The organization seeks to create a future nation calledCemanahuac. The group views "White" people as Europeans who aresquatting onIndigenous lands, and who must be repatriated back to Europe. The group rejects the "Aztlán ideology" as being too limited, seeking instead to unite the entire American continents under Indigenous control.
The nameMexica is derived from the Nahuatl wordMēxihcah (Nahuatl pronunciation:[meːˈʃiʔkaʔ]), the name theAztecs used for themselves.[citation needed]
The organization is named after theMexica (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.[citation needed]
Nican Tlaca (literally meaning "Man Here") was first used in an ethnic context in the bookWe People Here by John Lockhart (who was the first person to create Nican Tlaca as an identity).[1] 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.[2]