Want to know how to say more than tlazocamati (thank you) in the language of the Aztecs? David Vasquez's Saturday-morning classes at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana are the sole spot ...
David Vazquez, center, hosted a Nahuatl exhibition in 2017 at the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana. (Courtesy of Episcopal Church of the Messiah) Francisco Barragan had been grieving his ...
For the first time, public schools in Mexico City are offering Nahuatl as an elective subject. The government of Mexico City, ...
The descendant of the ancient Aztec language is one of many endangered indigenous languages. Although there may still be a million speakers of Nahuatl, it is not being transmitted to a new generation.
Eduardo de la Cruz intones a ritual prayer to bless seeds of corn in a UCLA professor’s backyard one Friday afternoon. Earlier that day, a group of UCLA students dug little holes in a patch of soft ...
"The smoking stars gather against it and the one who cares for flowers is about to be destroyed." This was the way one Aztec poem foretold the crushing of empire and culture that would come at the ...