Significance of the eagle and serpent in Chicano culture

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Significance of the eagle and serpent in Chicano
culture
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Flag of Mexico
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Leyenda de Tenochtitlan

• One of the myths of the foundation of the city
  goes as follows "That night Huitzilopochtli
  appeared to one of the leaders in a dream and
  told him When you followed my orders and killed
  my nephew Copil and ripped out his heart and
  threw it away into the lake it fell on a stone,
  and from this stone a nopal cactus grew and on
  this an eagle now is perched. Go and find it and
  there you will establish the city which I name
  Tenochtitlan And Huitzilopochtli called it
  Tenochtitlan because tetl is stone, nochtli is
  nopal tlan is place, so that the name comes to
  mean the place of the rock and the nopal And now
  these are the coat of arms of the city.

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Symbol of Chicanos

• As defined before, Chicano generally refers to a
  person born in the United States whose parents
  emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico.
• Many Chicanos are embracing their Mexican roots.
• Therefore they take the eagle and serpent as
  their symbol.