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The Council of the Caxcan indigenous people was formed in the 1920s by Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza, a Caxcan from Durango. [3] She also published Alto! , a book which stressed Mexican Nationalism through indigenous roots and, even after the alleged extinction of the Caxcan people, is quoted as saying "We do not recognize the right of any ...
Xicanx (/ ˈ tʃ iː k æ ŋ k s, ˈ ʃ iː-/ CHEE-kanks, SHEE-, [1] / ʃ ɪ ˈ k æ n ʃ / shih-KANSH [2]) is an English-language gender-neutral neologism and identity referring to people of Mexican descent in the United States.
[2] [3] Ethnicity on the other hand is a system that classifies groups of people according to cultural, linguistic and historic criteria. An ethnic group is normally defined by having a degree of cultural and linguistic similarity and often an ideology of shared roots.
During the American colonial period, British colonial officials conducted censuses in some of the Thirteen Colonies that included enumerations by race. [1] In addition, tax lists and other reports provided additional data and information about the racial demographics of the Thirteen Colonies during this time period.
Francisco Tenamaztle (fl. 1540s-50s) Caxcan leader in the Mixton War Antonio Valeriano (c. 1521-1605), Nahua scholar, collaborator with Bernardino de Sahagún on the Florentine Codex Felipe Santiago Xicoténcatl , 1804-1847 Nahua, general in the Mexican Army under Antonio López de Santa Anna
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).
The Caxcan, an ethnic group in southernmost Zacatecas, northern Jalisco, and part of Aguascalientes, south to Lake Chapala and to the Río Grande de Santiago.The Caxcan proper were in the northern part of this territory, the Tecuexe in the southern part, and the Coca in west of Lake Chapala.
Cazcan or Caxcan (Kaskán), was the language of the Caxcan, one of the Chichimeca peoples of Mexico. It is known only from a few word lists recorded in the 16th and 17th centuries. The language was definitely part of the Uto-Aztecan family, probably related to Huichol or possibly Southern Tepehuan. There appear to have been dialectal ...