Xiximes
Sign in to saveThe Xixime were an indigenous people who inhabited a portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the present day states of Durango and Sinaloa, Mexico. The Xixime are noted for their reported practice of cannibalism and resistance to Spanish colonization in the form of the Xixime Rebellion of 1610.
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- Language
- Cannibalism
- Relationship with the Spanish
- Impressions
- Xixime Rebellion of 1610
- Tepehuán Revolt
- References
The Xixime were an indigenous people who inhabited a portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the present day states of Durango and Sinaloa, Mexico. The Xixime are noted for their reported practice of cannibalism and resistance to Spanish colonization in the form of the Xixime Rebellion of 1610.
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smallpox
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animism
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shamanism
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Sinaloa
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Durango
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conquistador
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Uto-Aztecan
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
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human cannibalism
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Alfred L. Kroeber
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Sierra Madre Occidental
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extinct language
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Cannibalism in North AmericaExtinct Indigenous peoples of MexicoIndigenous peoples of AridoamericaLanguage articles with Linglist codeLanguage articles with unknown extinction dateLanguages with neither ISO nor Glottolog codeLanguages without Glottolog codeLanguages without ISO 639-3 code but with Linguist List code"Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation