Aztlán, is the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs, the indigenous peoples of Mexico. It is the place where they were instructed to migrate to by their god, and is thought to be in what is today the western United States. Aztlán, directly translated from the Nahuatl language means “land of the white heron,” and was said to be an idyllic place in which the Aztecs lived in peace and prosperity. The expansion of the United States westward is/was in direct conflict with the very existence of Aztlán. For nearly 250 years, the social experiment known as the United States has been projected onto the geography of Aztlán at the expense of the descendants of the Aztecs, Mexicans. The United States, due to it’s own hubris and continued hegemonic aspirations abroad, now finds its ideas and infrastructure at home in a state of flux and disrepair, especially in Aztlán. Simultaneously, Mexicans and Chicanos (Mexican-Americans) continue to migrate to, move throughout, and survive on the land that was once theirs. Myth-making and reconceptualizing Aztlán today remain important ways for Mexicans and Chicanos to take up, and reclaim, both physical and psychological space as they speculate on the future of their relationship to this land. The photographs in Aztlán are in conversation with some of these ideas.