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Nevertheless, by 1615, a Jesuit declared that the Tepehuanes “showed great progress and were in the things of our holy faith muy ladino" (much like the Spanish). [6] In 1616, however, a messianic leader named Quautlatas who had been baptized as a Christian, arose among the Tepehuán. Quaultlatas traveled throughout the mountains, his symbol a ...
Quautlatas did not lead the Tepehuán in the revolt which began in November 1616. Six war leaders carried out a series of coordinated attacks that left hundreds of Spaniards, including ten priests, and their Indigenous (American Indian) allies dead.
The Tepehuanes name or Tepeguanes (as they were known in colonial times) is of Nahuatl origin and was imposed both by speakers of that language as by the Spanish in the sixteenth century. Linguistically, O'dam and Audam belong to the Tepiman branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family , in the same branch as Ódami (Northern Tepehuan).
The 2011 Durango massacres were a series of mass murders that occurred in 2011. [1] [2] According to El Universal and Yahoo!News, at least 340 bodies have been found in mass graves around the city of Durango as of February 2012; [3] [4] These mass graves are the first of their kind in the state of Durango and third of their kind in Mexico.
Xiximes, Achires, Tarahumara, Tepehuanes, and Cahita The Acaxee or Acaxees [ 2 ] were a tribe or group of tribes in the Sierra Madre Occidental in eastern Sinaloa and NW Durango . They spoke a Taracahitic language in the Southern Uto-Aztecan language family.
Martyrs of Tepehuanes (Durango, Mexico): Fernando de Tobar (1581–1616), Professed Priest of the Jesuits; Martyr (Sinaloa, Mexico)
This specific settlement was founded as a Jesuit mission, with the name San Pablo Tepehuanes, in 1640, as part of the efforts to evangelise the local Tepehuan people; ...
They mainly live in the three east-central Mexican states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, and Puebla. [4] The Tepehuas extend over a wide range of high settlements, between 240 and 820 metres (790 and 2,690 ft).