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The Caxcan are an ethnic group who are Indigenous to western and north-central Mexico, particularly the regions corresponding to modern-day Zacatecas, southern Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Nayarit.
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
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 ...
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.
Haskell, David L. "From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty: The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition." The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 35.2 (2015): 265. Haskell, David Louis. "History and the construction of hierarchy and ethnicity in the prehispanic Tarascan state: a syntagmatic analysis of the Relación de Michoacán."
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The Mixtón War (1540–1542) was an uprisng by Caxcan people aimed at pushing the Spanish conquistadors out of northwestern Mexico and bringing the area back under indigenous control. [1] The war was named after Mixtón, a hill in Zacatecas which served as an Indigenous stronghold.
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