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Mexican Indians ~ Migrant Wisdom
And yet, this is exactly what migrant wisdom has taught us across the ages. No boundaries: the whole world is our home. Just like the salmon, born in sweet water, travels around the world and finds his way with his inner compass, and the monarch butterfly travels thousands of miles and finds, always its sanctuary, in the same way, the migrant follows the currents of life and destiny. I was told, as a child, that the first Mexicans discovered their identity when they left their ancestral land, Aztlan. They called that which was in heaven, and earth and everywhere “Mexi”, the Great Spirit. “Mexica” meant him or her who follows God. It was, right from t...
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