The only specification about where the Mexica, not the other tribes, came from is summarized at the end as follows: “north, … the land of the remote ancestors, the forbears of Shield Flower and Itzcoatl, who came from the American Southwest.” (page 208) There is a vague allusion to the Mayas who are in the south, in Yucatan, with no more detail, and no connections whatsoever with the Mexica or Aztecs. The Maya are actually only mentioned because of La Malinche who was from the “empire” the Mexica were building in the fifteenth century by making their ethnic neighbors dependent, making them pay a tribute in exchange for peace and more or less self-government.
Not Aztecs and Probably Not Mexica
Note: I don’t mean to upset my fellow Mexican-Americans, Mexicans, or native peoples from Mexico with the following post. Modern descendants of indigenous Mesoamericans…