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New Spain creoles. He wrote "A history of Mexico written by a Mexican" in the book dedication.

"To that set of values and integrating symbols, the creoles of the 18th century added the idea that the country had a distant past, a past that when assumed by them ceased to be only indian and became creole and mexican.

Thus, by integrating the remote antiquity to the patria notion, the creoles expropriated the indigenous peoples of their own past and made it a prestigious antecedent of the creole patria. The creole patria now had a noble and ancient past, of a present unified by cultural values and shared religious symbols, and could therefore legitimately claim the right to govern their future". (Enrique Florescano. 1987)

In the project of building "The New Spain", the natives only were allowed to provide workmanship and their natural resources for free; the ideas were totally imported from Europe. Indigenous peoples were sentenced to lose their languages, their historical memory, their knowledge, their physical and social spaces and of course their religion, and by the 18th century the creoles even began expropriating their ancient history. They had to cease being what they were for centuries, to accept and be submissive slaves to colonists. The project was literally disappearing all vestige of the ancient native civilization. However, it was not so. The millenary Anahuac civilization tree was torn down by the colonizer with the language axe. But the root was kept under Mother earth, it kept alive the piece of trunk which stubbornly remained. And from the deepest life came with impetuous force and the trunk flourished. The Anahuac civilization did not die and survived colony.