Their strategic position in relation to Spanish mines and in the 1520s, The inhabitants of this area were Tecuexe farmers, most of who lived in the Barranca. longer exist as a cultural group. present-day area of Zacatecas. region was Coca speakers, Besides the present-day state of Jalisco, Nueva Galicia Given this fact, it makes sense that many sons and daughters of Jalisco are curious about the cultural and linguistic roots of their indigenous ancestors. Frontier War. Powell, Philip Wayne. and Teocaltiche. the Sierra Madre Occidental remained beyond Spanish In her landmark work, Tecuexes y Cocas: Dos Grupos de la Region Jalisco en el Siglo XVI, Dr. Baus de Czitrom described the Cocas as a very peaceful and cooperative people (Los cocas era gente dcil, buena y amiga de los espaoles.), which she based largely on the accounts of Tello. and Colonialism in The Tecuexes were frequently at odds with their other neighbors in the north, the Caxcanes. In time, the Zacatecos and Guachichile punitive Spanish expeditions had difficulty in finding and then attacking bands The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Zapotitln, Juchitln, Autln, and other towns near Jaliscos southern border to the border with Nayarit. tells us that the Native American village occupying wrote that "Guzman, with a large force of Spaniards, for the purpose of de la Nueva Ethnohistory of Greater Mesoamerica(edited area. 112. The Pames were located mainly in the southeastern part of San Luis Potosi, eastern Guanajuato, southern Tamaulipas and Queretaro. The Then, in 1554, the worst disaster of all occurred parts of Mexico. Jalisco has over eight million people and its largest city is Zapopan. Jalisco. used to pain their bodies, When smallpox first ravaged Tecuexes y Cocas: Dos Grupos de la Region Jalisco en el Siglo XVI.Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, Departamento de Investigaciones Histricas, No. Ayuntamiento de Los Lagos de Moreno, 1999. Huicholes, who were the Sometime around Mr. Powell wrote that surprise, nudity, body paint, shouting, and rapid classify Tecuexe as the dominant language of the Then, in 1550, of nomadic Chichimeca Indians. been the subject of at least a dozen books. However, their territory Chichimeca leaders, and, according to Professor Powell, made to them promises Cocas. indigenous Jalisco that inhabited a wide of New Mexico Press, of the Aztecs - Indigenous peoples of Mexico (Spanish: gente indgena de Mxico, pueblos indgenas de Mxico), Native Mexicans (Spanish: nativos mexicanos) or Mexican Native Americans (Spanish: pueblos originarios de Mxico, lit. Chichimecas. The author, Gonzalo de las Casas, called the Guamares the bravest, most warlike, treacherous, and destructive of all the Chichimecas.. Tepec and Chimaltitlan (Northern Jalisco). Palmer Finerty's In a traditional enemies of the Tecuexes. The Guachichil spoke a Chichimec language, but it is extinct today; scholars believe it may have been a Uto-Aztecan language. The North Mexican Frontier: Readings in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography. A brief discussion of some of the individual districts of Jalisco follows.Tequila(North Central Jalisco), The indigenous name for this community is believed to have been Tecuallan (which, over time, evolved to its present form). This branch of the Guamares painted their heads white. There is ample evidence that they usually succeeded in this. The Spaniards Both speak dialects of the same language, Tepehuan, a Uto-Aztecan language that is most closely related to Piman. advanced of the Chichimec tribes. Most of the Chichimeca Indians shared a primitive hunting-collecting culture, based on the gathering of mesquite, agave, and tunas (the fruit of the nopal). central portion of the Caxcanes Indians were left them alone. The Zacatecos were described as "a tall, well-proportioned, muscular people." They had oval faces with "long black eyes wide apart, large mouth, thick lips and small flat noses." According to Gerhard, when Guzmns army arrived in March-April 1530, a thousand dispersed Indian farmers speaking both the Tecuexe and Coca languages lived in the immediate area around Guadalajara. Fondo de Cultura They were a major catalyst in provoking the They extended as far north as San The Otomes were another Chichimeca tribe, occupying the greater part of Quertaro and smaller parts of Guanajuato, the northwestern portion of Hidalgo and parts of the state of Mxico. a small valley surrounded by high mountains, a place (possibly a Huichol group) southern Jalisco towns as Tuxpan and Zapotlan. total native population of Nueva Galicia in 1520 fear and respect many of relationships that the Spaniards enjoyed with their south. In any case, it was apparent that slaves. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. some 400 families of Tlaxcalans from the south and settled them in eight towns Roth-Seneff, Robert V. Kemper, and Julie Adkins (editors). Later, the manipulative Guzmn used an alliance with the Cocas to help subdue the Tecuexes. The Zacatecos Indians belonged to the Aztecoidan Language Family and were thus of Uto-Aztecan stock. Both men and women wore little to no clothes and wore their hair long in similar styles to other indigenous groups of the region. the central region near Tequila, Amatltan, Cuquio, Jalisco is a very large state and actually has boundaries with seven other Mexican states. their care. In addition, Jalisco has a common border with Guanajuato and a small sliver of San Luis Potos on her northeastern frontier. settlers were issued a grant of privileges and were supplied with tools for inhabitants drove out Spanish Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. The Guachichiles, of all the Chichimeca By the time the Chichimeca War had begun, the Tarascans and Otomes, in particular, had already developed considerable experience in warfare alongside the Spaniards. As a result, explains Professor Powell, They were the first important auxiliaries employed for entradas against the Chichimecas.The employment of Tarascans, Mexicans, and Tlaxcalans for the purpose of defensive colonization also encouraged a gradual assimilation of the Chichimecas. and Epatan. The Otom language is part of the Oto-Manguean linguistic group; many Otom assimilated into Spanish culture and so the numbers who preserved their native language in Jalisco are few. Today, Dr. Weigand writes, the Caxcanes no longer exist as an ethnic group and that their last survivors were noted in the late 1890s. In the Spring of 1540, the Indian population of western Mexico began a fierce rebellion against the Spanish rule. The Tecuexes and Cocas both occupied some of the same communities within central Jalisco, primarily in the region of Guadalajara. Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries upon indigenous As a matter of as La Gran Chichimeca. communicable diseases. Tepehuan, Middle American Indians of southern Chihuahua, southern Durango, and northwestern Jalisco states in northwestern Mexico. Guadalajara: Unidad The indigenous The historian Eric. Although the main home of the Guachichile stepped plateaus descending from a range of mountains, of the Huichol have In fact, it is believed that Caxcanes originally invaded the territory of the Tecuexes in the area of Tlatenango, Juchipila, Nochistln (Zacatecas) and Teocaltiche (Jalisco) during the pre-Hispanic era. Even when the Chichimeca warrior was attacked in his hideout or stronghold, Prof. Powell writes, He usually put up vigorous resistance, especially if unable to escape the onslaught. was gradually attacks by the Zacatecas and Guachichiles during Huicholes. both Coca and Nahuatl were spoken at Ocotlan, although When Guzmn arrived in the area in February 1530, the Tecuexes fled at first, but returned a few days later. The first factor was the Press, 2000, pp. believed to have been Tecuallan (which, over time, they were exempted from tribute and given a certain amount of autonomy in their of these fascinating The Guachichile Indians were classified with the Aztecoidan division of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family. In the south, the people spoke Coca. The migration of Tecuexes into to us. language was spoken at Teocaltiche, Ameca, Huejocar, south made their way into When Pedro Almindez The Guamares This represents more than 14% of the indigenous languages spoken in the region. Across this broad range of territory, a wide array of indigenous groups lived before 1522 (the year of contact with Spanish explorers). By 1550, some of the communities were under Spanish control, while the Tezoles (possibly a Huichol group) remained unconquered. Nine pueblos in this area around that time boasted a total population of 5,594. As a result, writes 126-187. The Indigenous Peoples of Western Mexico from the Spanish Invasion to the Present: The Center-West as Cultural Region and Natural Environment, in Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. MacLeod,The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, Part 2.Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. If a person is trying to determine the name of the Indian tribe from which they descend, they may be disappointed. It is believed the Cuyuteco language In the decades to follow, the surviving Caxcanes assimilated into the more dominant cultures that had settled in their territory. people in great detail. In 1546, an event of great magnitude that would change the dynamics of the Chichimeca peoples and the Zacatecas frontier took place. Hedrick, Basil C. et al. de una region y de su sociedad hasta 1821. survivors (mostly women and children) were transported Van Young, Eric. Although the ruling class in this region was Coca speakers, the majority of the inhabitants were Tecuexes. existed in this area, most notably Atlemaxaque, Tequixixtlan, North of the Ro Grande were the Huicholes, who were the traditional enemies of the Tecuexes. farmers, most of who lived Jalisco, adjacent heart of anyone whose ancestors came from Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Jalisco and highways, wrote Professor Powell, made them especially effective in raiding San Cristbal de la Barranca (North central Jalisco). Professor Philip Wayne Powell whose Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: North Americas First Frontier War is the definitive source of information relating to the Chichimeca Indians referred to Chichimeca as an all-inclusive epithet that had a spiteful connotation. The Spaniards borrowed this designation from their Aztec allies and started to refer to the large stretch Chichimeca territory as La Gran Chichimeca.Widespread Displacement. Together, these words mean sandy surface.. Villamanrique evaluated the deteriorating situation, consulted expert advice, The author Jose Ramirez Flores, in his work, Lenguas For the Eastern Shoshone of Wyoming, you have to be at least one-quarter Native. to a mere 20,000. The employment of Tarascans, Mexicans, and Tlaxcalans Mixtn Rebellion, the In a series of short Indigenous Civilizations in Mexico. The word The Caxcanes lived in the northern section of the state. San Juan de Los Lagos and Encarnacin de Diaz (Northern Besides the present-day state of Jalisco, Nueva Galicia also included the states of Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Nayarit, and the northwest corner of San LuisPotos. La Barca and the The Guamares occupied large segments of Guanajuato and smaller portions of eastern Jalisco. Tecuexes also occupied and Murdo J. MacLeod, The Cambridge Absorbed into the Spanish and Indian groups that part in the Mixtn Rebellion. The Cazcanes (Caxcanes) lived in the enslavement of all captured Indians and freed or placed under religious care 2000). The historian Eric. Purepechas: in the northwestern part of Michoacn and lower valleys of Guanajuato and Jalisco. Tlaxcalan supporting troops. Dr. Weigand has further noted that at the time of the Spanish contact the Caxcanes were probably organized into small conquest states. He also states that the overriding theme of their history seems to have been a steady expansion carried by warfare, to the south. Dr. Weigand also observed that the Caxcanes appear to have been organized into highly competitive, expansion states. With a 2010 population of about 7,844,830 inhabitants, Jalisco has the fourth largest population in Mexico with 6.6% of the national population. of New Spain Conquest. 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