Background

   Let's get some background information: This is a Chicano History web site. It is meant primarily for those of Mexican and "Central American"  descent who want want clarification who we truly are (which is Indigenous/Native). And for the many people who know, and are in the process of Reconstituting our people. It is also for non-Indigenous people who want to learn about us. We encourage you to do so.

   We Chicanos-Mexicans-Central Americans have been taught ever-so-cleverly to believe that we are Hispanic, Latino, Mestizo,or Raza. We have been taught false concepts that make us deny our majority "Indian", Indigenous selves, and over-amplify the minority of our European/White blood.

   We have been tricked into thinking European-American interests are own interests (which they never have been). We have been taught to discount our "brown", Indigenous aspects, to think of it as "stupid" or "lazy"; we have been taught psychological slavery to people White and European.

And we have been conditioned to enjoy it, just like in the movie "The Matrix".

   We have been taught to be mindful of their memories, to cry over their failings, to celebrate their fantasies. They tell us, "Stop dwelling in the past!", while they themselves gush over Roman history, ancient Greece, the Confederate Flag, Pearl Harbor, and Plymouth Rock  (things that give them pride).

   And they tell us this while they dwell on their "Greatest Generation" of World War II and Pearl Harbor. They call our ancestors "bloodthirsty" while they themselves were burning their own women alive over suspected "witchcraft" at Plymouth Rock, and lynching black and brown people well into the 1960's.

   By their own definitions and laws, they are illegal immigrants to this land. We are taught to cowardly overlook this inconsistency and say that it is we who are illegal.

   We are taught to be worth-less. Taught to be cowards longing for their approval. Taught to value their voices echoing in our homes. We are taught that it is we who are "ethnic", and White is "natural." Never mind of course that we have lived here 50,000 years longer than they have. Never mind that we discovered this land, not them. We are to believe our land is a natural extension of Europe.

   We have been invaded, colonized, murdered, enslaved, raped, ignored, and used as cheap labor for over 500 years, since Europeans arrived. They lecture us on how they have the right to defend what their ancestors stole from ours. But that we have no right to defend what was stolen.

   We are taught to accept our murdered lives and marginal status as the acceptable price for their comforts.

   They promised Civilization, but what we got were Prisons, Reservations, Barrios, mass burials and lily-white television programs for us to be hypnotized by. What we got was their White Male-God to kneel down to and worship. What we got were a few token success stories to make us think we have "made it." 

   What we got were a few drops of White blood, raped into us, for us to accept as a consolation prize. What we got was the hardest work for the lowest pay... if they paid us at all.

   What we got were slave-owners George Washington, Hernan Cortes, Father Junipero Serra, and Christopher Columbus, with an endless parade of white "heroes" to celebrate. But none of our own.

   I made this site to challenge the notion that our Founding Fathers are truly White men (slave-owners). We need to know who our Founding Fathers and Mothers are, and we need to know who our heroes are. We need to know because they tell us who we are.

So...who are we ?