Did you know your mouth speaks resistance? They tried to erase Nahuatl during colonization, banning it and punishing Indigenous people for speaking their own language. But Nahuatl never disappeared — it survived in everyday words we still use like chocolate, tomato, avocado, chili, tamale, and guacamole. The language of the Aztecs lives on in food, place names, and daily speech, with over 1.5 million Nahuatl speakers in central Mexico today. Every time you say these words, you’re keeping Indigen