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Uploaded by on Apr 12, 2007

I upload this film for the students who are studying this poem. This rare film was created by Luis Valdez in 1969. Please watch this film in loving memory of Corky Gonzales, who died on today's date, April 16, two years ago.

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  • does any one know who plays the classical guitar or what the title of the song is?

  • More than likely, it was was Luis Valdez or family or anyone in his troupe who played it, probably self composed or from a Mexican corrido or something heard in the 70s. The original was basically done in 8mm with a slide show, performed live on cue.

  • Does anybody know the title or the name artist of the painting that shows a spanish soldier stabbing an aztec while being stabbed by the aztec. It is in minute 3:42 of this video.

  • It's probably a painting of Diego Rivera... Valdez lifted this up from library books, newspapers, and things like that

  • Great Poem you should put subtitles in Espanol so that the Raza that doesn't speak English can partake in the knowledge that is Joaquin!

    VIVA LA RAZA!

  • I will try. The poem is already translated and I can just copy and paste it as subtitles. But, the English version is MUCH better. But, for the sake of demographics...

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  • he can be both aztecs and prince maya, its about all the chicano identities at risk of being forgotten, and he honors it all with a poem so beautiful you understand why you better not forget

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  • Thank you for taking the time to upload!

  • the speaker and guitarist IS Luis Valdez, the artist of the Mexica and Spaniard soldier was Orozco.

  • My mother is pictured at the end of this video in a charro outfit, i've always wanted a copy of this!

  • BEST POEM EVER WRITTEN....

  • my dad recited this poem to me everyday growing up to remind me of wat he went through i love this video saw it in 8th grade got an a+ for reciting it by memory

  • Saw this film at a UFW 'March on Sacramento' stop in Stockton - by the end of the film, I stopped see myself as 'spanish' and saw I was Mexican / American (I was about 13 y.o.).

    This lead to my outlook of 'Indigina/Chicano/Atzlan'.

  • MI HISTORIA.

  • @yankee82090 That is like THE major flaw with this otherwise epic poem. The mujeres ain't respresented at all! =/

  • Join the Mexica (Meshika) Movement-MEXICA MOVEMENT.ORG-THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS THAT WE FACE AS A PEOPLE IS ON KNOWING WHO YOU ARE!!--MEXICA MOVEMENT.ORG-LIBERATION THROUGH ANAHUAC EDUCATION!

  • This is a very powerful poem, never forget who you are or where you come from cause our people has struggled for 500 years the struggle still continues today

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