Anawakalmekak 20/20 Indigenous Futures Campaign

Please join us in celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of Semillas del Pueblo, the Indigenous community based educational organization that founded Anahuacalmecac World School which began as Academia Semillas del Pueblo under the hills of El Sereno Park in 2002 in the unceded territories of the ancestral village of Otsuunga. 

Since then our schools have graduated ten classes of students from K-12. This year we are graduating our 11th class from high school. Next year will be our twentieth academic year (2022-23). This year-long campaign will launch a capital campaign to support the liberation of Indigenous lands for Indigenous learning and a fundraising campaign towards programming and the establishment of an endowment for long-term sustainability. We are honored to announce that long-time supporter and national educational leader Carolyn Webb de Macias has named Anahuacalmecac (Semillas Sociedad Civil) as the beneficiary of a $5,000 donation from the Haynes Foundation (https://haynesfoundation.org/) to launch the first leg of the campaign. Thank you so much Carolyn for always keeping your Semillas in mind.

Since 2002, Semillas Sociedad Civil has continued to refine its global reach, academic programs, cultural programs, and expertise in curricular and professional development.  

Anahuacalmecac was founded and is operated by Semillas Sociedad Civil as a programmatic continuity of the original charter established in 2002 known as Xinaxcalmecac Academia Semillas del Pueblo.

Anahuacalmecac International University Preparatory of North America (“Anahuacalmacac”) has established the only comprehensive public school system in the City of Los Angeles that serves the intellectual and cultural needs of Indigenous children. Founded and operated by Indigenous educators, mostly of Indigenous Peoples from Mexico, Anahuacalmecac provides a unique educational alternative for Native parents in the greater Los Angeles area, a region that boasts the highest density of Indigenous Peoples in the United States.

Our vision of a school community and our pedagogical ideals and concepts are founded upon the legacy of Indigenous education. Indigenous education ethos embodied social ideals and appreciations intended to develop the child as a complete person and as a civically responsible member of a human collective. Indigenous Mexican schools organized pedagogy, curriculum, administrators, teachers and sites as a part of collectivist societies that respected individual autonomy and dignity in children.  The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard government schools.  Los Angeles and California continue to be a part of indigenous cultural networks and among its diverse children are Indigenous ones who will be part of the 21st century.