For more than 3000 years, the Mesoamerican culture area was witness to the rise (and fall) of more than eight great civilizations: Olmec, Maya, “Totonac," Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, and Aztec. The "Golden Age," or Classic Period, of these civilizations occurred between AD 150 and AD 900, but our interest here, will extend back in time to the very earliest Mesoamerican cultures, as well. #Mesoamerica #Olmec #Maya #Totonac #Teotihuacan #Zapotec #Mixtec #Toltec #Aztec
RT by @axios: Indigenous advocacy @IllumiNative group has launched a video campaign to raise awareness of the diversity of Native people, including U.S. Latinos with Indigenous roots #native #indigenous #maya #aztec #Huichol #Totonac https://www.axios.com/2022/12/01/native-american-latino-heritage https://nitter.net/RussContreras/status/1598391955607719938#m
Campaign aims to explore Latinos' Indigenous roots

The number of Latinos who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native jumped 115% in the last U.S. Census.

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Yesterday I learned about Tosepan Titataniske (@[email protected], http://www.tosepan.com; their name is Nahuatl for "together we will succeed") through a Nahuatl-related project I'm working on.

#Tosepan is a union of agricultural cooperatives in the highlands of Puebla, formed in 1980 from the Indigenous Cooperative Movement that started there in 1977. It now comprises some 1,400 producers from around 70 #Nahua and #Totonac communities.

A short video on their work: https://vimeo.com/95085017

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