Wixarika
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The Wixárika () or Huichol () are an Indigenous people of Mexico living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, with considerable communities in the United States, in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. They are best known to the larger world as the Huichol, although they refer to themselves as Wixáritari ("the people") in their Huichol language. The adjectival form of Wixáritari and name for their own language is Wixárika.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Wixárika (Huichol)
- Ethnic group.image
- Huichol Woman artisans.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Wixárika women and children
- Ethnic group.population
- 43 929 in 2003
- Ethnic group.rels
- Shamanism, Animism, Peyotism, Jehovah Witness, Roman Catholicism
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Mexico (Sierra of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, and the desert of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi), United States (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Wixárika, Spanish, English
- Ethnic group.related
- Cora, Tepehuán, Tarahumara, Hopi, other Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Language
- Lifestyle
- Religion and mythology
- Peyote
- Mexican government protection
- Animism
- Art
- Current issues
- Religious freedom
- Environmental impacts
- Mining
- Roads
- Notable people
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Wixárika () or Huichol () are an Indigenous people of Mexico living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango, with considerable communities in the United States, in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. They are best known to the larger world as the Huichol, although they refer to themselves as Wixáritari ("the people") in their Huichol language. The adjectival form of Wixáritari and name for their own language is Wixárika.
The Wixárika speak a language of the Wixarikan group that is closely related to the Nahuatl group. Furthermore, they have received Mesoamerican influences, which is reflected by the fact that Wixarika has features typical of the Mesoamerican language area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wixarika” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.