Hundreds of years ago, our people were living in a place “in the north” probably in the land that we now call Aztlan. At that time, Huitzilopochtli came to our people and said that we must travel south to find a land that would be better for our people and at that place we would see something like what we now see at the center of the Mexican flag. Huitzilopochtli came in the form of a hummingbird and kept saying to our people “Mexica Tiahui” which loosely means “Go forward Mexica people” (Mexica= Me-Shee-Ca is the name of the tribe that we now refer to as the Aztecs). As the people met hard times and drought the hummingbird kept saying this until we made it to a place called Tenichtitlan where we find present day Mexico City.

Why is this important? Because we are at a critical time where we are forgetting who we are. We are at a time where we need to connect to our past and our ancestors. We need to recognize that we are Indian people, Indigenous to this continent and that our place is here regardless of fake borders.

That hummingbird still calls to our people and tells us that no matter how hard it gets we must get to the point where our people will have a better life. We must create a better life for our youth. “Mexica Tiahui” is still ringing in the cultural and spiritual conscience of the Chicano people, the descendants of the Indian grandfathers and grandmothers of Mexico. That is why the podcast is called Tiahui. This Podcast was created by Tezcatlipoca Intertribal Community Alliance (TICA) to echo that call and fulfill the prophecy that has not been forgotten. Mexica Tiahui.