Example sentences for: aztlán

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

  • Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.

  • The affiliation with Aztlán also reaffirms the Chicanos’ identity as mestizos (people of mixed ancestry), as members of the indigenous population of the New World.

  • In the late 1960s Chicanos starting calling the southwestern United States, or that portion of Mexico lost to the United States during the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848, Aztlán, in reference to the legend of the wandering Mexica.

  • 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.

  • Chicano writers explore the various meanings of Aztlán in an anthology edited by Rudolfo Anaya and Francisco Lomelí titled Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland.


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