Name of Mexico of the country is the "United Mexican States" (), since it is a federation of thirty-two states. The official name was first used in the Constitution of 1824, and was retained in the constitutions of 1857 and 1917. Informally, "Mexico" is used along with "Mexican Republic" ("República Mexicana"). On 22 November 2012, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón proposed changing the official name of the country to "México". Anahuac (meaning land surrounded by water) was the name in Nahuatl given to what is now Mexico during Pre-Hispanic times. When the Spanish conquistadors besieged México-Tenochtitlan in 1521, it was almost completely destroyed.
Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery clustered in a small military plot, the rest scattered. Civil War veteran Oscar Vaughn (16th United States Colored Infantry) is one of many, perhaps hundreds, of African Americans buried at Pioneers and Soldiers. Almost all the cemetery's remains belong to early residents of Minneapolis, many of them immigrants of humble means. Some headstones are carved in Swedish and German. No one particularly famous is buried there, and a striking feature of the cemetery is the absence of large monuments; only a relative handful stand as high as . Many headstones are tilted, missing, or broken, and some have been crudely