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tetlalpan.

Headword: 
tetlalpan.
Principal English Translation: 

on people's land, in homeland territory; the place where one is a Native to the land (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetlalpan. tierra, o patria de donde alguno es natural.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 108v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh ca nel tetlalpan yn cate yn motlallico yn tollitic yn acayhtic = And really they were on [other] people's land when they settled in the sedges and reeds. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 104–105.

themes: 
Land Tenure
Race, Ethnicity, Identity