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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.
Mexican people of Indigenous peoples descent (7 C, 17 P) Mixe (2 C, 1 P) Mixtec (7 C, 13 P) Mogollon culture (22 P) N. ... Pages in category "Indigenous peoples in ...
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
[citation needed] The name Mazatec is an exonym and comes from Nahuatl, meaning "deer people". The Mazatec people refer to themselves in their own languages as Ha shuta Enima (or other variants), meaning approximately "workers of the mountains, humble people of custom". [11] The Mazatec shamans are known for their ritual use of psilocybe mushrooms.
The Mixe (Spanish mixe or rarely mije) are an Indigenous people of Mexico who live in the eastern highlands of the state of Oaxaca.They speak the Mixe languages, which are classified in the Mixe–Zoque family, and are more culturally conservative than other Indigenous groups of the region, maintaining their language to this day.