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  2. Tlaxcaltec - Wikipedia

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    Lienzo de Tlaxcala image depicting Tlaxcaltec soldiers leading a Spanish soldier to Chalco.. Due to their century-long rivalry with the Aztecs, the Tlaxcaltecs allied with Hernán Cortés and his fellow Spanish conquistadors and were instrumental in the invasion of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, helping the Spanish reach the Valley of Anahuac and providing a key contingent of the ...

  3. Xicotencatl II - Wikipedia

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    The Spaniards with the Tlaxcaltec forces marched on Tenochtitlan, where they stayed until the Noche Triste, at which time they were forced to flee the city after an Aztec uprising. The remnants of the Spanish forces made it to Tlaxcala where they once again asked for the assistance of the Tlaxcaltec, and where Xicotencatl II once again spoke ...

  4. List of First Nations peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The native peoples of the Pacific coast also make totem poles, a trait attributed to other tribes as well. In 2000 a land claim was settled between the Nisga'a people of British Columbia and the provincial government, resulting in the return of over 2,000 square kilometres of land to the Nisga'a.

  5. Xicotencatl I - Wikipedia

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    He also writes that he had more than 500 wives and concubines and consequently a large number of children, including Xicotencatl II and the wife of Jorge de Alvarado - Doña Lucía. His great-grandson Captain Don Joaquin Buenaventura de la Paz was the founder of the Tlaxcalan settlement of San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala near Saltillo, Coahuila ...

  6. Indigenous peoples in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 1874 and lasting until 1996, the Canadian government, in partnership with the dominant Christian Churches, ran 130 residential boarding schools across Canada for Indigenous children, who were forcibly taken from their homes. [135] While the schools provided some education, they were plagued by under-funding, disease, and abuse. [136]

  7. Tlaxcaltecs - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 15 September 2005, at 03:00 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Child Martyrs of Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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    Mexican children [1] People ridiculed for their piety The Martyrs of Tlaxcala were three Mexican Roman Catholic teenagers from the Tlaxcaltec people of the modern state of Tlaxcala : Cristobal (1514/15–1527) and the two companions Antonio (1516/17–1529) and Juan (1516/17–1529).

  9. WE Charity - Wikipedia

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    Ernst & Young and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, a sister organization of the World Economic Forum, presented the 2008 Social Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Canada to the Kielburgers for their work with Free the Children. [28] Free the Children rebranded as WE Charity in 2016. [29] The charity runs domestic programs for ...