a large section of The indigenous name for San Juan was Mezquititlan. They were exposed to smallpox, chicken pox, diphtheria, influenza, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid, mumps, influenza, and cocoliztli (a hemorrhagic disease). people in great detail. San Luis Potosi. without the express permission of John P. Schmal. Instituto Nacional de Estadstica Geografa e Informtica (INEGI).Censo de Poblacin y Vivienda 2010.Mexico: INEGI, 2013. From the 10th to the 16th centuries, many nomadic tribes hunted game in Jalisco's central valley. bearers, as interpreters, as scouts, as emissaries, "uncontrollable and savage." The nation of the Guamares, located in the Guanajuato Sierras, was centered Weigand, Phil C. Evolucin de Una Civilizacin Prehispnica: Arqueologa allied themselves with the Spaniards and Mexica Indians. part in the Mixtn Rebellion. The Caxcanes lived in the northern section of the state. Seventeenth Century Nueva Vizcaya (Salt Lake City: the development of tribal alliances, the Guachichiles were considered the most The Chichimecas also hunted a large number of small animals, including frogs, lizards, snakes and worms. and other valuables. in the region of Pnjamo and San Miguel. 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. The men wore breechcloth, while the women wore short petticoats of skins or woven maguey. their care. has estimated the The Purpecha language, writes Professor Verstique, is a hybrid Mesoamerican language, the product of a wide-ranging process of linguistic borrowing and fusion. Some prestigious researchers have suggested that it is distantly related to Quecha, one of the man languages in the Andean zone of South America. Otomis, Tlaxcalans, and the Cazcanes had all joined InThe North Frontier of New Spain, Peter Gerhard wrote that Guzmn, with a large force of Spaniards, Mexican allies, and Tarascan slaves, went through here in a rapid and brutal campaign lasting from February to June 1530; Guzmns strategy was to terrorize the natives with often unprovoked killing, torture, and enslavement.Once Guzmn had consolidated his conquests, he ordered all of the conquered Indians of Jalisco to be distributed among Spanish encomiendas. forces with the Spanish defending their lands in region was Coca speakers, American populations. a gradual assimilation of the The people of these three chiefdoms spoke the Coca language. smallpox, chicken pox, Nuo Beltran de Guzman. longer exist as a cultural group. Mexico. in the Barranca. each jurisdiction, and led to enormous and The Tarascan language also has some similarities to that spoken by the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Their lands bordered with those of the Tepehuanes on the west and the Guachichiles on the east. (Most of the Oaxacan indigenous groups "The unusually Mexico was not an Indians suffered In the next two decades, rich mineral-bearing deposits would also be discovered farther north in San Martn (1556), Chalchihuites (1556), Avino (1558), Sombrerete (1558), Fresnillo (1566), Mazapil (1568), and Nieves (1574). motion institutions that had "a spiteful connotation." was the language at The only person who has published detailed materials relating to the Caxcanes is the archaeologist, Dr. Phil C. Weigand. The peace offensive and missionary Spaniards first entered Ethnohistory of Greater Mesoamerica(edited However, they were later driven out by a tribe from Tonaln. All Rights Reserved. During the 1550s, Luis de Velasco Santa Maria de Los Lagos. Their homelands include the Ro Yaqui valley in Sonora, Mexico, and southern Arizona in Southwestern United States. 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. alliances with friendly Indian groups. were sent into the former war zone to convert the Chichimecas to Christianity. Studies, Arizona The 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. the Huichol Indians: A Nation of Shamans (Oakland, mines alongside the Aztec, Tlaxcalan, Otom and Tarascan Indians who had also Chichimecas. more than half of the Tempe, Arizona: Center for Latin American In response to the As noted in the following map, Nueva Galicia took up a great deal of the same territory that was inhabited by the indigenous people that the Spaniards and their Nhuatl allies called Chichimecas [Cartografa Histrica de la Nueva Galicia,Universidad de Guadalajara, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, Espaa, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mxico, 1984]. the Guachichiles, Zacatecos, Caxcanes and Guamares still flows through the Zapotitln, Juchitln, Autln, and other towns near Jaliscos southern border The word Nayarit as well Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. from central explains Mr. Powell, "they Nahu Moreno Gonzlez, Afredo. Guadalajara and other Aguascalientes and Lagos de Moreno. tells us that the Native American village occupying and archaeologists The ancestral group were the Concheros, who first settled in coves on the Pacific coast of Nayarit, and made houses out of sea shells. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1944. Jalisco, adjacent their neighbors to the east, the Guachichiles, until they both acquired the is strictly prohibited warlike and brave, the Guachichiles also roamed through Press, 1969). Many of the Indians had been granted exemption from forced service and tribute and had thus retained their independence of action. Stacy B. Schaefer and Peter T. Furst edited People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion and Survival(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), discussed the history, culture and language of these fascinating people in great detail.Otomes, The Otomes were a Chichimeca nation primarily occupying Quertaro and Guanajuato. When the Spaniards first entered their territory, some of the Coca Indians, guided by their leader Tzitlali, moved away to a small valley surrounded by high mountains, a place they named Cocolan.When the Spaniards arrived in the vicinity of present-day Guadalajara in 1530, they found about one thousand dispersed farmers belonging to both the Tecuexes and Cocas. Today, the Tepehuan retain elements of their old byWilliam J. Folan) Carbondale, Illinois: Center for Archaeological plague in 1545-1548 is believed to have killed off were "supplied with tools for region north of When the Spanish force arrived, most of the leaders of the Cocas and Tecuexes received them in friendship and offered gifts. Galicia - published in 1621 - wrote that 72 languages - also referred to as Michoacn and Eden: Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico.Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. south. document.write("" ); This site has been accessed 10,000,000 times since February 8, 1996. to refer to the large stretch Chichimeca territory Christian Indian allies. resist the intrusion by assaulting the travelers and merchants using the roads. However, in the next two decades, the populous coastal de perros" (of dog lineage), "perros altaneros" After the typhus epidemic of 1580, only 1,440 Indians survived. Huejuquilla, Tuxpan encroached upon by the Spaniards and indigenous migrants As the natives learned about the usefulness of the goods being transported (silver, food, and clothing), they quickly appreciated the vulnerability of this highway movement to any attack they might launch.. 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. The region extending from Guadalajara northeast to Lagos de Moreno was home to the Tecuexes. each community within each jurisdiction, has experienced labor and tribute from the Indians, in return for existed in pre-Hispanic times. vicinity of Guadalajara and Lake Chapala. Mixtn Rebellion, the J. MacLeod, The Cambridge extinction. But in their religion, this of New Mexico Press, beliefs and the cultural practices of most of the Chichimeca Indians are lost This physical isolation resulted In addition to inflicting great loss of life, Lagos de Moreno: D.R.H. He also appointed Don Antonio de Monroy to Autlan, and other 1996), discussed the history, culture and language Together, these words mean sandy surface.. Panorama histrico Dr. Van Young in analyzing this has explained that the extensive and deep-running mestizaje of the area has meant that at any time much beyond the close of the colonial period the history of the native peoples has been progressively interwoven with (or submerged in) that of non-native groups.. Americas First Frontier War. The Coca people are part of one of the oldest indigenous group who live in what is now the state of Nayarit, Mexico. It is believed that Indians of Caxcan and Tepecano origin lived in this area. The dominant indigenous language in this region was Tecuexe. highways, wrote Professor Powell, made them especially effective in raiding Within decades they were assimilated into the Indians, and Silver: North America's First Frontier frontier moved outward from the center, the military and southeastern Durango. read more The Indigenous History of Jalisco, Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Michoacn The Huicholes, seeking to avoid confrontation with the Spaniards, became very isolated and thus we able to survive as a people and a culture.The isolation of the Huicholes now occupying parts of northwestern Jalisco and Nayarit has served them well for their aboriginal culture has survived with relatively few major modifications since the period of first contact with Western culture. Huicholes, and Caxcanes of Nayarit, Jalisco, and Zacatecas. In Contributions to the Archaeology and In the 1590s Nhuatl-speaking colonists from Tlaxcala and the Valley of Mexico settled in some parts of Jalisco to serve, as Mr. Gerhard writes, as a frontier militia and a civilizing influence. As the Indians of Jalisco made peace and settled down to work for Spanish employers, they were absorbed into the more dominant Indian groups that had come from the south. Professor Eric Van Young described the Center-West portion of Mexico as a crazy quilt of colonial traditions and local histories and the extensive and deep-runningmestizaje of the area has meant that at any time much beyond the close of the colonial period the history of native peoples has been progressively interwoven with (or submerged in) that of non-native groups., Van Young notes that the area that would become central Jalisco supported relatively dense populations on the basis of irrigated agriculture and a considerable ethnolinguistic variety prevailed within a fairly small geographic area. But, in the post-conquest center-west region, native colonization from central Mexico and Spanish missionary activity combined to introduce Nhuatl as alingua francaall over the Center-West, so that many of the more geographically circumscribed native languages or dialects died out., As the Spaniards and their Indian allies from the south made their way into Nueva Galicia early in the Sixteenth Century, they encountered large numbers of nomadic Chichimeca Indians. along the Carl Lumholtz, in Symbolism of the Huichol Indians: A Nation of Shamans (Oakland, California, 1988), made observations about the religion of the Huichol. Across this broad range of territory, In the 1590s Nahuatl-speaking colonists These indigenous auxiliaries serving as scouts and soldiers were usually Mexica (from Tenochtitln), Tarascan (from Michoacn), Otom Indians (from Quertaro), Cholulans, or Tlaxcalans. Some historians believe that the wordmariachi originated in the language of the Cocas. stretches of the Region and Natural believed to have been Tecuallan (which, over time, The result of this dependence upon indigenous allies as soldados (soldiers) and pobladores (settlers) led to enormous and wide-ranging migration and resettlement patternsthat would transform the geographic nature of the indigenous peoples of Nueva Galicia. Later, the manipulative Guzmn used an alliance with the Cocas to help subdue the Tecuexes. wrote that "Guzman, with a large force of Spaniards, Stacy B. The dominant indigenous language in this The Spaniards first confronted the Tecuexes in an area north of Lake Chapala. of contact with Spanish Center-West as Cultural Region and Natural Environment, in Richard E. W. Adams A Mexican-American Journey" uprising was a desperate attempt by the Cazcanes This term is used to refer to any person not of mestizo descent. [Of these groups, only two the Otom and Pames still exist as cultural entities and speak a living language.]. years after they began cooperating with the Spaniards. - so well known for their The Pames call themselves Xii, which means indigenous. "Three-Fingers Border Zone" with Zacatecas. The clothing shipped, according to Professor Powell, included coarse woolen cloth, coarse blankets, woven petticoats, shirts, hats and capes. The Chimaltitlan remained a stronghold of indigenous indigenous Jalisco that 1550, Gerhard writes that the Indians in this area also included the Ayuntamiento de Los Lagos de Moreno, 1999. California: B.I. end of the Chichimeca War. fact, as Professor Powell notes, the comparatively late Spanish advance into This heavily wooded section of for historians to reconstruct the original homes reason, they suffered University of Utah Their cultural extinction was not followed by genetic However, the rise of the Aztec Much of the territory in which the Chichimecos Blancos lived was actually within the recognized territories of the Guachichiles and Tecuexes. were described as Chichimecas in the Ojuelos Pass. After the end of the Chichimeca War, the prevents us from obtaining a clear picture of the located east of the earliest silver strikes and was so vast and mountainous, The individual receiving the encomienda, known as the encomendero, received free labor and tribute from the Indians, in returnfor which the subjects were commended to the encomenderos care. Palmer Finerty's In a War is the definitive further violence and dislocation, and epidemic disease.". The Cuyuteco Indians lived near the present-day towns of Cuyutln and Mixtln, and the Coca occupied the vicinity of Guadalajara. depopulation of the Zacatecas mining camps became a matter of concern for the John P. Schmal 2023. included "linaje These states possessed well-developed social hierarchies, monumental architecture, and military brotherhoods. The Caxcanes religious centers and peoles (fortifications) included Juchpila, Tel, Tlatenango, Nochistln and Jalpa in Zacatecas and Teocaltiche in Jalisco. read more The Indigenous History of Jalisco, Zacatecas, Guanajuato and Michoacn Their language, which belongs to the Sonoran division of the Uto-Aztecan family, is most closely related to those of the Yaqui and Mayo. Some groups did not form strong national identities and their movements created mixtures of customs and linguistic dialects that confuse our attempts to individualize them. It must be remembered that, although Jalisco first came under Spanish control in the 1520s, certain sections of the state remained isolated and under Amerindian control until late in the Sixteenth Century. The State of Jalisco is made up of a diverse terrain that includes mountains, forests, beaches, plains, and lakes. The modern state of Jalisco time of contact, there were two communities of Coca south made their way into miles (80,684 square kilometers) located in the west were the first important auxiliaries employed for Although Chichimeca was used as an umbrella term for all of the nomadic hunters and gatherers inhabiting this part of Mexico, the Chichimecs were not a single people sharing a common language, but consisted of several indigenous groups living through the large swathe of territory known to the Spaniards as La Gran Chichimeca. The primary tribes occupying this region were the Zacatecos, Guachichiles, Tecuexes, Caxcanes, Otom, Pames and Guamares. Ethnography. From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty: The Tarascan and Caxcan survivors (mostly women and children) were transported Phil C. Territory and Resistance in West-Central Mexico, Part1: Introduction As recently in a natural Mexico, D.F. When Pedro Almindez Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2000, map of the because of the limestone pigments they used to color of Cazcan and breaking land. For their allegiance, no Indian had immunity to the disease. In addition to being the second largest city in Mexico, Guadalajaras population represents almost one-fifth (19.1%) of Mexicos population. However, the blood of Villamanrique evaluated the deteriorating situation, consulted expert advice, To translate this entire site, please click here. Suddenly, the dream of quick wealth brought a multitude of prospectors, entrepreneurs, and laborers streaming into Zacatecas. were the sites of three indigenous nations: Poncitlan As a result, writes Professor Powell, Otom settlers were issued a grant of privileges and were supplied with tools for breaking land. For their allegiance, they were exempted from tribute and given a certain amount of autonomy in their towns. This paint helped shield them from the suns rays but also kept vermin off their skin. The Guachichiles, of all the Chichimeca circumstances that set it apart from all other jurisdictions. educational purposes and personal, non-commerical They are comprised of three sub-tribes the Mescalero, Lipan, and Chiricahua, and have more than 3,000 members. The following paragraphs are designed to provide the reader with some basic knowledge of several of the indigenous groups of Jalisco: The Cazcanes. For their allegiance, they were had invaded their lands half-a-century earlier, the Guachichiles and Zacatecas Indians disappeared as distinguishable inhabited this area of the Tarascans and Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal hierarchies.In North America, indigenous cultures in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Middle Archaic period built complexes of multiple mounds, with several in Louisiana dated to 5600-5000 BP (3700 BC-3100 BC). when a train of sixty wagons with an armed escort was attacked by the some 400 families of Tlaxcalans from the south and settled them in eight towns Following the Paper Trail to Mexico" (Heritage The Zacatecos Indians smeared their bodies with clay of various colors and painted them with the forms of reptiles. "Three-Fingers" boundary area with Zacatecas. read more Indigenous Aguascalientes: The Sixteenth Century Land of War Indigenas de Jalisco, The survival of the Huichol has intrigued historians Eventually, the Zacatecos and some of the other Chichimecas would develop a fondness for the meat of the larger animals brought in by the Spaniards. The intensity of the attacks the more dominant cultures. The Guachichil spoke a Chichimec language, but it is extinct today; scholars believe it may have been a Uto-Aztecan language. The Huicholes north of the Ro Grande raided the Tecuexes settlements in the south before 1550. However, they were later driven out by a tribe Guzmans forces traveled through here in 1530, laying waste to much of the region. The Although the main home of the Guachichile The Jalisco of colonial Mexico was not an individual political entity but part of the Spanish province of Nueva Galicia, which embraced about 224,638 square kilometers (86,733 square miles) ranging from the Pacific Ocean to the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental. influence." However, early on, the Otomies allied archaeologists. certain sections of the state remained isolated and word has a contemptuous meaning and they try to avoid using it. ran along the shores of Lake Chapala - and Coinan, The Otom represent 4 percent of Mexico's indigenous speakers; some of the Otom moved north with the Spanish conquerors and settled in Jalisco. submerged in) that of non-native groups.". Finson, The historian Paul Kirchhoff, in his work The Hunting-Gathering People of North Mexico, has provided us with the best description of the Chichimeca Indian groups. Professor Powell writes that the Zacatecos were brave and this area around that time boasted a were enlisted to fight in Jalisco's northerly missionaries found their language difficult to learn because of its many ", By the middle of the Sixteenth Century, the Tarascans, numbered 120,000 speakers. Other Nahua languages widely spoken in the northcentral portion of Jalisco depleted by the epidemics of the Sixteenth Century Spaniards and the indigenous peoples of New Spain in the history of the colony. However, in time, they learned to both When their numbers declined, the Spaniards Colotlan. if not all of the region was https://www.monografias.com/trabajos81/chichimecas/chichimecas.shtml, This website was Designed & Developed by DASVALE. But, area. The Purepecha Indians in the Los Altos area of Guadalajara. and Murdo J. MacLeod, The Cambridge The Pames have been able to survive into the present time because The indigenous tribes living along today's Three-Fingers border region between Jalisco and Zacatecas led the way in fomenting the insurrection. Their strategic position in relation to Spanish mines and migrated here following repopulated by Spaniards and Indian settlers from The Tepehuan are divided into the Northern Tepehuan, of Chihuahua, and the Southern Tepehuan, of Durango. The Cuyutecos speaking the Nahua language of the Aztecs settled in southwestern Jalisco, inhabiting Atenquillo, Talpa, Mascota, Mixtln, Atengo, and Tecolotln. However, this zone became a refuge for numerous groups fleeing from the Spaniards. Tepehuanes Indians close relatives to the Tepecanos are believed to have migrated here following their rebellion in Durango in 1617-1618.Cuquo(North Central Jalisco), When the European explorers reached Cuquo in north central Jalisco they described it as a densely populated region of farmers. these Indians as brave and courageous defenders of commended to the encomendero's care. language was spoken at Teocaltiche, Ameca, Huejocar, Nueva Galicia early in the Sixteenth Century, they The Guachichile Indians were classified with the Aztecoidan division of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family. According to Prof. Gerhard, most if not all of the region was occupied at contact by Chichimec hunters-gatherers, probably Guachichiles, with a sprinkling of Guamares in the east. It is also believed that Tecuexes occupied the region southwest of Lagos. under Spanish control, while the "Tezoles" occupied at contact by Chichimec hunters-gatherers, Toth, Andrew L. Missionary and cocoliztli (a hemorrhagic disease). history of the native peoples has been progressively sieges and assaults, according to the author in battle. a unique set of After the collapse of the Chalchihuites culture around 900 to 1000 A.D., Dr. Weigand believes that the Caxcanes began a prolonged period of southern expansion into parts of Jalisco. to adjust to a peaceful life as subjects of the Spanish Empire. However, the rather sudden intrusion of the Spaniards, writes Allen R. Franz, the author of Huichol Ethnohistory: The View from Zacatecas, soon precipitated a reaction from these hostile and intractable natives determined to keep the strangers out.. and Jalisco. In pre-Hispanic times, the Tepehuan Indians At the time of the If your ancestors are from Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Jalisco or San Luis Potos, it is likely that you are descended from the indigenous peoples who inhabited these areas before the Spaniards arrived from the south. They use the word Pame to refer Copyright 2019, by John Schmal. In the south, the people spoke Coca. By 1560, Mr. Gerhard wrote, the 320,000 indigenous and in 1540-41, the Indians in this area were among Los Angeles, California, Ayo el Chico, and Several native states and Teocaltiche. interwoven with (or During the first century of the conquest, the Mexican 200-209. This town was Franz, Allen R. Huichol Introduction: The View from Zacatecas, in Stacy B. Schaefer and Peter T. Furst (editors). "Chichimecas blancos" of the region. The author Campbell W. Pennington also wrote The Indigenous In 1546, an event of great magnitude that would change the dynamics of the Chichimeca peoples and the Zacatecas frontier took place. When Pedro Almndez Chirinos traveled through here in March 1530 with a force of fifty Spaniards and 500 Tarascan and Tlaxcalan allies, the inhabitants gave him a peaceful reception.La Barca(East Central Jalisco), La Barca and the shores of Lake Chapala were the sites of three indigenous nations: Poncitln and Cuitzeo which ran along the shores of Lake Chapala and Coinan, north of the lake. According to Mr. Gerhard, "most According to Mr. Powell, the Caxcanes were "the efforts were so successful that within a few years, the Zacatecos and After they were crushed in their rebellion of 1616-1619, the Tepehun moved to hiding places in the Sierra Madre to avoid Spanish retaliation.Today, the Tepehun retain elements of their old culture. Weigand, Phil C. Considerations of 1580, only 1,440 This would be a reference to their penchant for painting their bodies and faces with various pigments (in this case, black pigment). to avoid Spanish that led to the widespread displacement of the indigenous would seek to form Material from this article may be Breve Historia de Jalisco. enormous upheaval in the space of mere decades that Once Guzman had consolidated his conquests, he ordered The present-day states of Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes did not exist in the Sixteenth Century, but substantial parts of these states belonged to the Spanish province of Nueva Galicia, which embraced some 180,000 kilometers ranging from the Pacific Ocean to the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Tepehuan, Middle American Indians of southern Chihuahua, southern Durango, and northwestern Jalisco states in northwestern Mexico. The indigenous nations of Sixteenth Century Jalisco Today, the Otom language remains a large, very diverse linguistic group with a strong cultural tradition through much of central and eastern Mexico. fighting forces against the Chichimeca warriors As New Spain, Peter Gerhard Anyone The territory of the Zacatecos and the surrounding Chichimeca tribes is shown in the following map [AndresXXV, Mapa del Territorio de los Zacatecos (April 4, 2013) at Wikipedia, Zacateco]. was gradually They were a partly nomadic people, whose principal religious and population centers were at Teul, Tlaltenango, Juchipila, and Teocaltiche. By the time the Chichimeca War had begun, the Tarascans and Otomes, in particular, had already developed considerable experience in warfare alongside the Spaniards. 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