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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.
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. [2] [7] [8]
In 19th-century Mexico, the so-called "Indian Question" exercised politicians and intellectuals, who viewed Indigenous people as backward, unassimilated to the Mexican nation, whose custom of communal rather than individual ownership of land was impediment to economic progress. [86]
Mexico: 24,390 (Mexican census 2000) (figure includes members of households where at least one parent or elder is a self-declared speaker of the Cora language) Regions with significant populations; Mexico (states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango), United States (Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Arizona) Languages; Cora, Spanish, English: Religion
The north Pame, or Xi'iuy (alternate spelling: Xi'úi, Xi'ui, Xi'oi, or Xiyui), as they refer to themselves, the south Pame, or Ñáhu, Nyaxu (in Hidalgo), and the Pame in Querétaro or Re Nuye Eyyä, [1] are an Indigenous people of central Mexico primarily living in the state of San Luis Potosí.
The Mexican Kickapoo (Spanish: Tribu Kikapú) are a binational Indigenous people, some of whom live both in Mexico and in the United States. In Mexico, they were granted land at Hacienda del Nacimiento near the town of Múzquiz in the state of Coahuila in 1850. [5] A few small groups of Kickapoo also live in the states of Sonora and Durango.