WEEK 3 Ramos Freddy

An image that I like that Yolanda Lopez created and stood out to me, was this image of an Aztec god. Lopez created this image as her version of an aztec god with crumbled immigration papers, signifying how indigenous communities are the rightful people of these lands and those who came from other countries are the illegal alien. She supports that claim by literally having, “Who’s the illegal alien, PILGRIM” in the image. By recognizing that this land belongs to the Aztecs, she is embracing her own natividad. This image to me plays on the “I want you” propaganda poster that gave Americans a sense of patriotism to join the war, instead this image gives indigenous communities who are associated with the Aztec empire the sense of pride of being indienous. I like this image because it demonstrates how indigneous folks have been affected by the colonizers and how the colonizers disregard immigration policies and laws because it “does not apply to them.”