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When the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, they found the indigenous peoples divided into Mayan and non-Mayan, with the latter dominated by the Zoques and Chiapanecas. [15] The first contact between Spaniards and the people of Chiapas came in 1522, when Hernán Cortés sent tax collectors to the area after Aztec Empire was subdued. The first ...
The Chʼol are an Indigenous people of Mexico, mainly in the northern Chiapas highlands in the state of Chiapas. As one of the Maya peoples, their indigenous language is from the Mayan language family, known also as Chʼol. According to the 2000 Census, there were 140,806 speakers of Chʼol in Chiapas, including 40,000 who were monolingual.
According to the CDI, the states with the greatest percentage of indigenous population are: [84] Yucatán, with 65.40%, Quintana Roo with 44.44% and Campeche with 44.54% of the population being indigenous, most of them Maya; Oaxaca with 65.73% of the population, the most numerous groups being the Mixtec and Zapotec peoples; Chiapas has 36.15% ...
The Chiapanec, also known as Chiapas or Soctones, were an indigenous people who occupied a part of the central region of the present-day state of Chiapas, Mexico.Not much is known about their origin, but it is often speculated that they may have migrated from Central America northwards, due to their close linguistic relationship with the Mangues. [1]
The Chiapas conflict (Spanish: Conflicto de Chiapas) consisted of the 1994 Zapatista uprising, the 1995 Zapatista crisis, and the subsequent tension between the Mexican state, the indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers of Chiapas from the 1990s to the 2010s.
A further geographic divide is evident between the Lacandon in lowland Chiapas near the Maya ruins of Bonampak and Yaxchilán and the highland Lacandón who reside closer to Lakes Naja and Metzabok within the jungle (see map at [5]). Lacandon who reside in the southern part of the Chiapas jungle have been more exposed to outsiders, are more ...
The Tzeltal are a Maya people of Mexico, who chiefly reside in the highlands of Chiapas.The Tzeltal language belongs to the Tzeltalan subgroup of Maya languages.Most Tzeltals live in communities in about twenty municipalities, under a Mexican system called “usos y costumbres” which seeks to respect traditional indigenous authority and politics.
The Zoque are an Indigenous people of Mexico, who are related to the Mixe.They speak various languages, also called Zoque, which has several branches and dialects.. The Zoque consists of 41,609 people, according to the 2000 census. [1]