The importance of Indigenous language survival is a central tenet to Semillas’ mission and a focus of our Regenerative Education. The Semillas community has inherited Nahuatl as a mother language. Parents of Semillas students reaffirmed the importance of teaching and learning Nahuatl in school through various means, most notably, through a plebiscite conducted on May 30, 2006. Nahuatl is a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family which is indigenous to Mesoamerica and is spoken by around 1.4 million people in Central Mexico.  Further, the Nahuatl languages are related to the other Uto-Aztecan languages spoken by peoples such as the Hopi, Comanche, Paiute and Ute, Pima, Shoshone, Tarahumara, Yaqui, Tepehuán, Huichol and other peoples of western North America. They all belong to the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family which is one of the largest and best studied language families of the Americas consisting of at least 61 individual languages, and spoken from the United States to El Salvador.

 
In Nahuatl, our native language, our pedagogy is named Totlamachiliz machtihlotl, a pedagogy that asserts that teaching and learning is a human vocation inescapably grasped by the lived reality and historical relations of all integrands. Tlamachiliz machtihlotl is an autochthonous pedagogy that celebrates our Indigeneity and the Indigeneity of all Native peoples on this continent.