How will we work to conduct research and revitalization with our Indigenous language and culture?

From the twentieth century to today, foreigners and mestizos have conducted research on Nahua culture and the Nahuatl language from an etic perspective. In this article, I discuss how Nahuas see the role of non-Indigenous researchers studying our language and culture and what role we-Indigenous Mexican scholars-must undertake in field research to revitalize Nahuatl, our language. I also discuss immigration from rural places to the city, which causes linguistic displacement and identity change. Finally, I propose a new way of engaging in community research through scholarship. When Nahuas carry out a research project, we make a decision to explore and learn about our culture from an emic perspective through which we engage in the language revitalization. We emphasize linguistic documentation using our mother tongue and then disseminate the Indigenous knowledge in the academia and in our small towns.