Example sentences for: aztlán

How can you use “aztlán” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to an Aztec legend, Aztlán was the place from which the Mexica Aztecas came, known as the place of emergence, in some codices identified as the “seven-cave place.”

  • Not infrequently the return address on an envelope will be Califas, Aztlán.

  • In the late 1960s Chicanas who joined the Brown Berets de Aztlán, a political pseudomilitary youth group, often dressed as Adelitas, wearing rebozos (shawls) and bandoliers crisscrossed over their chests.

  • In 1970, a journal was started at the University of California, Los Angeles, titled Aztlán: Chicano Journal of the Social Sciences and the Arts, which is still published today.

  • Aztlán takes a prominent place in murals, folk art, and folklore, and it continues to appear in Chicano literature today, as it has for over thirty years, in poetry, short stories, novels, and essay anthologies.


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