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Below you will find messages, poetry, news, and historical information the band feels is important and would like to share with you. Additional material is found in the Links page.

Cuauhtemoc's tlatoli (Cuauhtemoc's statement)

Ixtli's tlatoli (Ixtli's statement)

Cuauhtemoc's tlatoli

The message of Cuautemoc, delivered on August 13, 1521, has been passed down through the oral tradition in the family of Tlakaelel for 17 generations. (Cuauhtemoc was the last Aztec ruler to fight off Spanish invasion, he was burned alive by the Spanish when they laid seige to Tenochtitlan)

For the guardians of all time...for the men of the future.
Ours sun has gone.
Our sun has gone and left us in darkness.
We know that it will rise again.
Once again it will come to illuminate us.
It will be with us in the mansion of death.
We will reunite valiantly.
We must shield and hide away those things in our hearts
we know are the treasures.
We will destroy our temples,
our places of meditation,
our houses of song and dance,
our ball courts,
our schools for our children,
our universities.
We will close the doors and leave the streets deserted.
We will stay hidden until our sun comes out.
Our homes will become our temples;
they will become our meditation places;
they will become our houses of song and dance,
our ceremonial ballcourts,
our schools,
our universities.
We will wait until our new sun comes.
Parents are obliged to teach the culture,
the man with his sons,
the woman with her daughters.
And they will tell the children of their children
of their children what our beloved culture has done.
They will pass on the lamp of our destiny and our traditions
which our ancestors, with love, have given to us.
Do not forget to tell your children,
that they may tell the children of their children of their children,
with proper respect.
Tell them how it was...
how it will be...how we will rise again...
how to gain strength
and how our culture will fulfill its great destiny
on our beloved Mother Earth.

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Ixtli's tlatoli

once time gave birth
and out came earth
through patience

cherished and nourished
by nature's natural, it soon
grew guidance-

through eyes of life
plants, animals, & ants
architecture by the original
infinite

energy based upon generating
age magnetizing center space
the everlasting race
to the core, family of 4
ground its pore
universal wealth burns inside
ourselves
nothing more
no one else.

until came the drought
the volcano opened its mouth
recycling sin within
itself addiction
medicine inscisions
element submission
with a beast, there is no reason
4 the next seasons.

fire balls
appeared like shooting stars
as the moon calls the owl
wolves howl
at all 4 corners - reflecting
as the rain falls.

a sign for us was left
when we lied on pairs of dice
odd's inside

as eve, ends out side
holding up lite,
2 with the race

a new world u see
decayed
the candy hive so sweet
we the working bee's
never free two c, a seed
bet - her than 'hem
GROUNDKEEPERS
2 tha end

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