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In 1970 an American Indian and Chicano college was started in northern California with the name Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl College.
Cortés was well received because he was thought to be Quetzalcoatl and the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spaniards was legitimized.
It was to the Spaniards’ advantage to use the Indians’ belief in Quetzalcoatl’s return.
Quetzal is a Nahuatl word referring to a bird found in Central America, and coatl means “snake,” so Quetzalcoatl means a “feathered serpent,” and this god is often called the Plumed Serpent.
Quetzalcoatl is one of the better-known Aztec gods and has been greatly idealized by the moderns, including Chicanos.