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The recognition of Indigenous languages and the protection of indigenous cultures is granted not only to the ethnic groups indigenous to modern-day Mexican territory but also to other North American indigenous groups that migrated to Mexico from the United States [18] in the nineteenth century and those who immigrated from Guatemala in the 1980s.
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Indigenous Mexicans are individuals who self-identify or are identified with an Indigenous Mexican tribe, nation, or ethnicity. See category:Indigenous peoples in Mexico for Indigenous peoples and groups in Mexico.
[a] According to the latest intercensal survey carried out by the Mexican government in 2015, Indigenous people make up 21.5% of Mexico's population. In this occasion, people who self-identified as "Indigenous" and people who self-identified as "partially Indigenous" were classified in the "Indigenous" category altogether.
As a result of the Chicano Movement, Chicanos who had pride in their Indigenous Mexican roots sometimes adopted or named their children Nahuatl names. [1] Although Chicanos may have roots from many different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, adoption of Nahuatl names is most common to create pride in one's heritage.
According to the 2010 Mexican census, there are 116,240 speakers of the language in the State of Mexico, which is 53% of all indigenous language speakers in the state, most of whom are bilingual in Spanish. [7] [8] Migration has caused Mazahua to be the sixth most commonly spoken language in Mexico City. [8]
The Pima Bajo (Lower Pima) people are indigenous people of Mexico who reside in a mountainous region along the line between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora in northern Mexico. They are related to the Pima and Tohono O’odham of Arizona and northern Sonora, speaking a similar but distinct language. [2] Lower Pima groups include: [3]: 22
Mexican states by percentage of Indigenous peoples, 2010. Mexican states by total Indigenous population, 2010. States. Rank State Speaking Population (2010) [1]