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Indigenous communities in colonial Mexico established mechanisms to protect their legal rights, including the creation of the General Indian Court (Juzgado General de Indios). [59] In the mid-nineteenth century, liberal reforms aimed at establishing equality before the law led to the dismantling of such institutions.
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, a Uto-Aztecan language. [2] Their primary homelands are in Río Yaqui valley [4] in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. [1] Today, there are eight Yaqui Pueblos in Sonora. [4] [1] Some Yaqui fled state violence to settle ...
Articles associated with the various Indigenous peoples (los pueblos indígenas) in (modern) Mexico The main article for this category is Indigenous peoples in Mexico . Subcategories
Huichol art broadly groups the most traditional and most recent innovations in the folk art and handcrafts produced by the Huichol people, who live in the states of Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas and Nayarit in Mexico. The unifying factor of the work is the colorful decoration using symbols and designs which date back centuries.
Turquoise mosaic mask. Mixtec-Aztec, 1400–1521 AD. The Mixtecs (/ ˈ m iː s t ɛ k s, ˈ m iː ʃ t ɛ k s /), [3] or Mixtecos, are Indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero.
Michael Connolly, from San Diego, pronounces Kumeyaay. The Kumeyaay, also known as 'Iipai-Tiipai or by the historical Spanish name Diegueño, is a tribe of Indigenous peoples of the Americas who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the United States.
The Indian presence in Mexico has been greatly appreciated as fifty other business ventures have invested around US$1.58 billion in the country around 1994 to 2000. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs , there were about 2,000 Indians living in Mexico as of March 2011. [ 3 ]
As the three Opatan groups lived adjacent to one another, Franciscan missionaries had by about 1800 lumped them together into one group they called "Opata." [8] Several Franciscan missionary records and subsequent anthropological accounts state that "Opata" was borrowed from a Pima Indian word meaning "enemy," the name allegedly given by the northern and southern Piman peoples to their Opatan ...