Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1908 — Aztecs Not Extinct. [ARTICLE]

Aztecs Not Extinct.

There has always been a story current among the . Indians of Central America that Montezuma, the last of the Aztec emperors, was not buried, as Is supposed to have been the case, at Mexico City. Strictly speaking, their legend goes that he was burled there and that later his bones were taken up and carried southward when the remains of the once-powerful tribe fled before the Spaniard, and that the emperor was finally laid to rest near the western coast of Costa Rica. As to tile Aztecs themselves, they scattered, and It Is the popular belief to-day that they are practically extinct. It is Interesting, therefore, to note as a fact that 50 miles to the west of Bocal del Toro, In the northern part of the Republic of Panama, there exists today a small tribe of Vallente Indians, who claim that they are Aztecs art?! that their ancestors came out of Mexico. Their tribal chief, an amiable old man. Is called Montezuma, and as Montezuma he la honored by his people.