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  • 15 - The Indigenous Peoples of Western Mexico from the Spanish Invasion to the Present

  • Edited by Richard E. W. Adams, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Murdo J. MacLeod, University of Florida
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    13 April 2000, pp 136-186

  • Summary

    The history of Mexico has been coterminous with the history of its indigenous peoples. The categories native, indigenous, and certainly Indian are themselves artifacts of European colonial rule, present still in the modern public discourse of the Mexican successor state. A brief synoptic look at the history and organizational complexity of the Tarascan culture area can give some idea of the havoc sown by the Spanish Conquest and of the shattered foundations on which colonial society was built. This chapter discusses the history of the Huichol, Cora, and Tarascan peoples to bring the story of the indigenous cultures of the Mexican Center-West into the modern period. In some ways the postcolonial history of the Coras and Huicholes who followed Lozada in substantial numbers illustrates, albeit in an extreme form, the political and economic pressures acting to deethnicize indigenous groups after independence.