Mythical homeland of the
Aztec civilization.
Used in the Mexican-American community to refer to the land ceded by Mexico to the United States in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado.
The Chicano movement's use of Atzlan as a symbol
serves to reject a language-based identity (with labels such as "Hispanic" or "Latino")
and claim identity based on land, indigenous culture, and race ("La Raza").