Tzicatl Community Development Corporation (Tzicatl CDC) was founded in Los Angeles in 2002.

 

Our mission is to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples, the reparation of community and advocacy for healthy ecosystems to cultivate Indigenous education and culture in relation with ancestral lands.

 

Tzicatl cultivates and supports Indigenous education as a key partner and sister organization to Semillas Sociedad Civil (Semillas), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Indigenous educational organization, which operates the Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America (Anahuacalmecac) charter school.

 

Also founded in 2002, Anahuacalmecac is a community-based K-12 charter school serving 300 students and their families, and is the only public school in Los Angeles that is dedicated to the academic and cultural needs of Indigenous children. Anahuacalmecac uses an International Baccalaureate model and is dedicated to student-centered schooling that includes a language rich, culturally meaningful, and academically rigorous environment rooted in principles of sovereign knowledge particular to Indigenous Peoples.