USA to recognize ONLY Nahuatl as the official language of Mexico
Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
the USA to honor Nahuatl as the sole official language of Mexico and to conduct
official USA business with Mexico in the Nahuatl language only. Here is a copy
of the bill:
S.40
To declare the Nahuatl language as only official language of Mexico.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
August 8, 2003
Senator Feingold introduced the following bill:
A BILL
Parts which follow:
The National Nahuatl Language Recognition Act
.The purpose of the National Nahuatl Language Recognition Act is to
formally recognize the Nahuatl language as the official
language of the people of Mexico
. Section 1 To officially recognize that the Nahuatl speakers were in Mexico
for thousands of years before the Spaniards came.
Section 2 To offically recognize the use of Nahautl speakers to develop modern
Mexico
Section 3 To recognize the Spanish language as the language of the conquerors
that stole every ounce of wealth from native Mexicans, leaving them in abject
poverty unable to care for themselves so that they have to sneak into other
Anglo countries to live a decent life.
If you haven't gotten it yet, Nahuatl was never, I repeat never, a
foreign language in Mexico. For the past thousands of years it
has been spoken continuously in Mexico. 1 in 10 Mexicans speak
across the land(1 in 4 according to some sources I've read), and yet
there is a fear that paralyzes those who do not accept this fact. My wife is
one of those '1 in 10'. Nahuatl should become the
official language at the federal level for Mexico. As the bill states above,
Nahuatl has national
presence, from Tijuana to Chiapas.. Yes, emigration from Tenochtitlan has
swelled the population, but this gives us added impetus to
standardize and collectivize a standard Nahuatl, which is found to
be in existence nationwide. The dominant culture may be Hispanick in
nature, but this does not negate the fact that a Native Aztec culture has
had a continual presence here and that it is open to ALL Mexican residents
who utilize their time to learn and acquire the ancient language of
the Aztecs. Mexico currently suffers from a deficit of humanistic culture
on the global stage, and one way to mitigate this problem is to throw
dollars at groups aimed at developing a rich language with current
ghetto status in our borders to one of prestige as it is found in the
world.
eli...@free.fr
And wich languaje will be the "real" and official language of the Gringo
nation ?
Sioux ?
Pawnee ?
Apache ?
On 14 Aug 2003 01:49:22 GMT, Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
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Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
<<And wich languaje will be the "real" and official language of the Gringo
nation ?
Sioux ?
Pawnee ?
Apache ?>>
None of those tribes created the USA. The Anglos created the USA.
However, it was the Nahuatl speakers who created what is now Mexico.
faitau Tusi Pa'ia
Frankie Boy
At least I'm a gringo married to a Mexican....I can speak...
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Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
<<At least I'm a gringo married to a Mexican....I can speak...>>
You speak Nahuatl? Good for you. I truly belive that for Mexico to return to
the greatness they once acheived under the Aztecs, they must return to their
heritage and not forget their roots. That would mean re-introducing the Nahuatl
back into Mexico as it once was. Mexico has known nothinbg biut poverty, misery
and despair while using Spanish as their official language. It hasn't worked.
Tenochtitlan
The city they were entering was the largest and most amazing they had ever
seen.
According to Spanish records of the period,it was larger than Salamanca and
Constantinople. It had 300,000 inhabitants. Strange it was indeed, for it was
built on artificial islands inside of a lagoon, joined to the land by wooden
bridges. The Aztecs called these islands chinampas and made them constructing
large rafts out of bamboo and wood and covering them with earth. On these
floating islands they built their homes and planted tress and
flowers. Some of the chinampas were large enough for planting corn and other
crops. Each man had a movable home for himself and his family, which could be
propelled with the aid of long poles by several men.
If a temporary foothold was wanted, the owners of the chinampas would tie
them to the real islands that existed in the center of the lagoon. For
quickermode of transportation, the people went to and from in small boats
through the numerous canals, much as one does in Venice.
faitau Tusi Pa'ia
eli...@free.fr
You know, mexicans do not live only in Mexico. They travel, they migrate,
and not only to your beautiful country but awful society, in some aspects
worst than the mexican one.
So...
Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
Are you trying to say Mexicans are desperate to sneak into Anglo countries?
faitau Tusi Pa'ia
Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
<<About gringoland, we are only geting back what once belonged to us>>
And what did belong to you? Disneyland? LA harbor? The Coliseum? The california
aqueduct? Or were you referring to land stolen from the Indians by Hispanicks?
<<and we are giving anglos a bit of culture and history, but it is to long to
explain and of course I know it will be almost impossible for you to
understand.>>
give it a try.
<<Gringo education system, cinema and television has made, with, thanks God,
great exceptions, a country full of suckers....>>
then why are you Hispanicks so goddamned desperate to sneak into the USA?!
faitau Tusi Pa'ia
Leusogafofomaaitulagi Fonoimoana
<<About gringoland, we are only geting back what once belonged to us>>
This Comanche says you are full of crap. That they kicked Hispanick ass and
drove you fools out of the southwest. That the land never belonged to
Hispanicks. read this:
Don't Burn My Flag, by David Yeagley, University of Oklahoma
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 23, 2001
"F—K YOU, this is still Mexico," says a popular LED-illuminated sign
appearing in car windows on California highways.
The sign refers to the fact that much of the American Southwest belonged to
Mexico until the U.S. siezed it in 1846.
Now some Mexicans want the land back. As a Comanche Indian, I have a problem
with that.
We Comanches pushed the Spaniards out of Texas and eastern New Mexico over 200
years ago. Neither Spaniards nor Mexicans ever managed to return.
Comanches used to ride across the Rio Grande every fall to attack Mexican
villages, killing, scalping, plundering and carrying off captives and
livestock.
"Upwards of ten thousand head of horses and mules have already been carried
off," wrote one English eyewitness. "…everywhere the people have been killed
or captured… ranchos barricaded, and the inhabitants afraid to venture out of
their doors."
The truth is, Mexicans were helpless against us. So where did they get this
idea that they used to own our land?
One of their arguments is that the American Southwest is really "Aztlan," the
original Aztec homeland. They say that some distant ancestors of the Aztecs
wandered through here in prehistoric times.
Well, even if that's true, what does it prove?
According to the CIA World Factbook 2000, 30 percent of Mexicans are Indian, 60
percent mestizo (part Indian, part Spanish) 9 percent white and 1 percent
other.
Of that 90 percent who are fully or partly Indian, some no doubt have Aztec
ancestors. But how many? And which ones? Nobody knows. Spaniards and Indians
have been intermarrying for almost 500 years in Mexico and the Aztecs were just
one tribe out of many.
No matter. Aztec is in. On the website of the Nation of Aztlan, members of the
so-called Revolutionary Council are listed with Aztec names such as Cuahtemoc
and Moctezuma.
All this reminds of my trip to Mexico in 1993. I was one of thirty American
Indian Ambassadors sent down under a Kellogg fellowship program for Indian
leadership training.
It was a fascinating trip. But, to this day, I'm still wondering what the point
of it was.
The group leaders – most of whom were white – kept telling us we had to
build solidarity with Mexico's "indigenous" people. But we couldn't see the
purpose. We were American Indians. What did we have to do with Mexico?
One day in Cuerna Vaca we listened to an elderly gent with few teeth, who was
introduced as a shaman, but resembled a homeless man from New York's lower East
Side.
While he extolled unity of all indigenous peoples everywhere, the black bark
incense he kept burning drove me out of the room coughing and choking.
In Mexico City, we saw a troupe of "Aztec" dancers. I'm afraid we didn't
connect with them either. Actually, we felt kind of sorry for them. No one was
watching their dance, and, to be honest, it wasn't that great. A lot of
slow-motion arm waving, and not much legwork or rhythm. They'd never cut it at
a Comanche pow-wow.
Someone told me this troupe had learned these "authentic" Aztec dances from
American Indians somewhere up in Texas. Hmmm.
Don't get me wrong. I like Mexican people just fine. But I sure don't like
Mexicans calling my land "Aztlan" and saying it belongs to them.
Another thing I don't like is people burning the American flag, as a mob of
violent Mexican demonstrators did Last Fourth of July outside a veterans'
cemetery in Los Angeles.
"Mexicans have every right to be here," said Augustine Cebeda of the militant
Brown Berets de Aztlan. "This land was stolen from us."
Well, I guess the Mexicans can try to take it back if they want. But we
Comanches remember how they fared the last time around. It wasn't anything to
brag about.
If push comes to shove, I'll be standing with the Anglos this time. One thing
whites and Indians have in common: We respect the American flag.
Go to any pow-wow, and watch how those Indians honor the flag. At the annual
Red Earth festival here in Oklahoma City, the vets step in first, in uniform,
carrying Old Glory proudly, its pole surmounted by the head of a real bald
eagle.
It's enough to send chills down your spine.
Those Mexican radicals can call themselves "Aztecs" if they want. But they're
not going to connect with me by burning bark incense.
And they're sure not going to connect with me by burning my flag.
H. Reader
"Frankie Boy" <targe...@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Why the hell are you posting here, froggie???
>
> At least I'm a gringo married to a Mexican....I can speak...
But without much intelligence, apparently.