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" 'If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the maíz.' That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old maíz culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of maíz/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States. The author argues that, given the restrictive immigration policies and popular resentment toward migrants, a continued connection to maíz culture challenges the social exclusion and discrimination that frames migrants as outsiders and gives them a sense of belonging not encapsulated in the idea of citizenship. The "hidden transcripts" of corn in everyday culture--art, song, stories, dance, and cuisine (maíz-based foods like the tortilla)--have nurtured, even across centuries of colonialism, the living maíz culture of ancient knowledge. "--

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation -- Cente Tlakatl Ke Cente Cintli - Paula Domingo Olivares -- Prologue -- Introduction: Okichike ka Centeotzintli -- Maíz Sagrado - Francisco Pos and Irma Tzirin Socop -- Chapter 1. Spiritual Colonization: A Totalizing Reframing Project -- Zazanil Xilotl Huehue Tlahtolli - Tata Cuaxtle Félix Evodio -- Chapter 2. Maíz Narratives and Counternarratives: When "Our Story" Begins -- ¡Qué Buenas las Gorditas Rellenas! - Maestra Angelbertha Cobb -- Chapter 3. The Aztlanahuac Maps -- Saramamalla (Ñukanchik Mamashina) - Luz María de la Torre -- Chapter 4. Maíz as Civilizational Impulse and the Tortilla as Symbol of Cultural Resistance -- The Elements to Create - María Molina Vai Sevoi -- Chapter 5. Primary Process and Principio: A Return to the Root -- En el Umbral de la Agonía del Maíz Azul - Verónica Castillo Hernández -- Chapter 6. Axis Mundi: From Aztlan to Maíz -- Epilogue: Resistance/Creation Culture and Seven Maíz-Based Values -- Ohoyo Osh Chisba - Alicia Seyler, Choctaw -- The Children of La Llorona -- Appendix 1. Nahua-Maya Expressions -- Appendix 2. Abbreviated Bibliocartography -- Appendix 3. The Aztlanahuac Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword: Love Note in the Key of Trauma / Patrisia Gonzales -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Ceremony of Memory, a Ceremony of Bloodletting -- On Forgiveness and Justice -- Disposables, Throwaways, and Undesirables -- From the Watts Rebellion to the Police Riots in East L.A. -- The Sleepy Lagoon Case, Zoot Suits, and Fingertips -- First Encounters of the Blue and Green Kind -- Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery -- The Lynchings of Mexicans and Indians -- The United States of War -- Running for Our Lives, Running for My Life -- The Legalization of Racial Profiling, the Border, and Operation Streamline -- Black Veterans, Southern Racism, and the Long History of Police Abuse / Rebekah Barber -- In Support of Black Resistance -- Neither Black nor White -- Merchants of Fear and Hate -- Guatemala: The Quetzal Cannot Live in Captivity -- Sister Dianna's Tortured Eyes -- María Guardado: She Didn't Know How Not to Suffer -- Torturers and Their Enablers -- Violence Against the Mind-Body-Spirit -- Spiritual Violence/Spiritual Genocide -- The End of Soul-Searching -- A Wall of Martyrs: Activists Killed by Law Enforcement -- Santa Dolores, heroína de muchos dolores -- Arizona's Violence Against the Mind-Body-Spirit -- Voices and Testimonios -- De Colores / Tara Trudell -- "Brokenheartedness" or Systematic Killings: Testimonios and Sequelae Violence / Michelle Rascon-Canales -- LAPD Continues Killing Chicanos in 2018 / Carlos Montes -- Because My Daughter Had to Be Born / Cesar Noriega -- "It Is Not a Question of Militancy, but of Survival": Police-State Violence During the L.A. Chicano Movement, 1967-1971 / David Cid -- Too Many Stolen Lives-This Must Stop / Travis Morales -- A Brown Beret Warrior Woman / Tanya Alvarez.