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Through the land reforms of the early 20th century, some indigenous people had land rights under the ejido system. [63] Under ejidos, indigenous communities have usufruct rights of the land. Indigenous communities do this when they do not have the legal evidence to claim the land. In 1992, free market reforms allowed ejidos to be partitioned ...
Mexico has a non-discriminatory policy with regard to the grant of its citizenship. The spouse of a Mexican national would generally not face any problem in acquiring local citizenship. Although a few of the NRIs have married Mexicans, they have retained their Indian citizenship. The Indians in this country are mainly businessmen or professionals.
Articles associated with the various Indigenous peoples (los pueblos indígenas) in (modern) Mexico The main article for this category is Indigenous peoples in Mexico . Subcategories
Dynamics of racism and discrimination that exist within Mexico also exist within Mexican-American immigrant communities. [4] Discrimination against indigenous Oaxacan and Mixtec people can also come from Mexican-Americans who, although also coming from an Indigenous Mexican background, have stopped speaking a Mixtecan or other Indigenous ...
Monument to the Mestizaje in Mexico City, showing Hernan Cortes, La Malinche and their son, Martín Cortes, one of the first mestizos in Mexico.. When the term mestizo and the caste system were introduced to Mexico is unknown, but the earliest surviving records categorizing people by "qualities" (as castes were known in early colonial Mexico) are late-18th-century church birth and marriage ...
The Indigenous people of Oaxaca are descendants of the inhabitants of what is now the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, who were present before the Spanish invasion. Several cultures flourished in the ancient region of Oaxaca from as far back as 2000 BC, of whom the Zapotecs and Mixtecs were perhaps the most advanced, with complex social organization ...
Some images of local Catholic saints resemble the old gods of the Zapotecs. One example is of San Pedro who resembles the Zapotec rain god Cocijo. [ 6 ] The first missionaries among the Zapotecs were Bartolomé de Olmeda , a Mercedarian , and Juan Díaz, a secular priest, who was killed by the natives in Quechula near Tepeaca for having ...
In the 21st century, the government of Mexico broadly classifies all Nahuatl-speaking peoples as Nahuas, making the number of Mexica people living in Mexico difficult to estimate. [ 4 ] Since 1810, the name " Aztec ” has been more common when referring to the Mexica and the two names have become largely interchangeable. [ 5 ]