Word: aztlan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan will perform a sword dance Sunday. Mask making, tie-dying, and drum shows are also scheduled. The musical lineup includes a "jazz jam session," an "evening of romantic music," individual piano performances, and other group performances...
Minority organizations within the College are strong, and Sanchez feels that participation in ethnically related activities helps students "keep a perspective on this place." He adds his dancing with a Mexican folk dancing group called Ballet Folklarico de Aztlan is one way he keeps abreast of the Chicano community at Harvard...
Students from Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan a campus Chicano group, and Despierta Boricua (DB), Yales's Puerto Rican group, initially proposed the concentration...
...grotesquely decorated skulls. Not only do they show the skill, imagination and intellect of their Indian craftsmen, but, more important, they offer a revealing perspective on Aztec life. For all their obsession with killing and conquest, the Aztecs (a name given them by 19th century writers from the word Aztlan, their mythic home in the north) were capable of building aqueducts to bring fresh water to the capital, were skilled agriculturalists, wrote lyrical poetry, admired and preserved the artistry of earlier Mesoamerican civilizations and even kept...