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Podcast: Tales From Aztlantis
Episode: Episode 16: Chicano Indigeneity
Description: Chicano Indigeneity Sadly, the latest online trend within the āwokeā and āLatinxā crowd is to relentlessly attack Chicanas and Chicanos who identify as Indigenous. Given the fact that being Indigenous is a cornerstone of Chicana-Chicano identity (and is manifested in our culture, language, traditions, ancestry, systems of kinship, and our connections to the land), I find such attacksā¦curious to say the least.The basic argument goes something like this: Chicanas, Chicanos, and Chicanx folks did not grow up in traditional Indigenous communities, and therefore can only call themselves āIndigenous descendantsā and not actual āIndige...