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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.
Colorado River tribes (4 C, 7 P) Comecrudo (2 C, 1 P) ... Pages in category "Indigenous peoples in Mexico" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total.
Map of Pre-Columbian states of Mexico just before the Spanish conquest. The pre-Columbian (or prehispanic) history of the territory now making up the country of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers, and through the accounts of Spanish conquistadores, settlers and clergymen as well as the indigenous chroniclers of the immediate post-conquest period.
Since Mexico's 2000 indigenous language law, indigenous languages like Purépecha were granted official status equal with Spanish in the areas in which they are spoken. Recently, educational instruction in Purépecha has been introduced in the local school systems. Additionally, many Purépecha communities offer classes and lessons in the language.
[5] [6] [7] Like most of the native names used to refer to the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the term Otomi is not native to the people to which it refers. Otomi is a term of Nahuatl origin that derives from otómitl , [ 8 ] a word that in the language of the ancient Mexica means "one who walks with arrows", [ 9 ] although authors such as ...
Map of Zacateco and surrounding nations during the 16th century Territorio Zacateco. The Zacatecos (or Zacatecas) are an indigenous group, one of the peoples called Chichimecas by the Aztecs. They lived in most of what is now the state of Zacatecas and the northeastern part of Durango. They have many direct descendants, but most of their ...
Carl Sofus Lumholtz: Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan, (New York: Scribner's and Sons, 1902) Christopher McDougall: "The Men Who Live Forever", Men's Health April 2008
Mexican states by population and percentage of Indigenous language–speakers. Mexican states by percentage of Indigenous peoples, 2010. Mexican states by total Indigenous population, 2010.