Where do you live and what do you know about the indigenous peoples of Mexico?

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1. I mean…some?

   It’s not customary to write out the disorganized sum of my knowledge on a random topic in response to a question from a stranger.

2. Pacific Northwest and almost nothing. There was some pyramids and corn, and according to a documentary I watched, one of their rulers was turned into a lama and saved by a peasant.

3. California. Nothing.

4. Maine and a fair amount of outline knowledge. I learned it in Spanish classes that did cultural education as well. That was back when I lived in Indiana.

   I’ve learned a bit more detailed stuff just reading as an adult.

   I wouldn’t say I’m super knowledgeable. But I know some, maybe more than average.

5. Aren’t all Mexicans technically natives tho?? Like yeah there’s Spanish blood. But there’s also the native blood as well….. always been curious how that works since native americas(usa) are still considered native even with less than half blood ya know

6. Average Joe Shmoe probably has heard of Aztecs and Mayans. That’s about it

7. Most people will respond they know something about the Aztec and/or Maya civilizations, that the Maya built pyramids, that the Aztec performed human sacrifice, and that the Spanish conquered enslaved and raped the population of Mexico.

   I’m from Arizona and I’ll do one better. The [Tohono O’odham people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O%CA%BCodham) live on both sides of the Arizona-Sonora border, and are specifically allowed to pass through the US-Mexican border essentially at will so that they enjoy full use of their homeland. This isn’t always perfectly enforced but they are allowed.

8. California. Nothing.

9. Where do I live or where was I educated? I live in Pennsylvania, but went to school in Colorado and Montana.

   I know about the Aztecs and Maya, and more modern day, the Apache. Other native tribes, virtually nothing

10. I live in Ohio, and I don’t know too much about them. I guess they’re like cousins as I have a decent amount of indigenous Peruvian in my DNA.

11. Uhmmm, what info are you looking for exactly?

12. I live in Miami, and outside of the Mayans and the Aztecs, I know nothing about the indigenous peoples of Mexico.

13. I live in California and I actually know quite a bit about them ! Im Mexican-American and I love learning about my culture. I just recently went to a pyramid in Mexico and learned about the Mayan people

14. Virginia, and my Dads Mom is from Mexico so I’m like 15% indigenous American. Don’t know a lot honestly since my grandma died when my dad was a kid.

15. Michigan. I’ve visited the Aztec archeological sites in Mexico and have some knowledge of the Olmec civilization.

16. I live in California trying to learn more about Indigenous people to Mexico since half of the U.S. was in Mexico’s territory. I’ve read up on the Mayans,Aztecs and before the borders and learned a bit of texas history from podcast but not familiar with other tribes in other areas. I know bits about Spanish and French territories before U.S. purchase as well.

17. I know of Cuauhtémoc Blanco, does that count?

18. Southern US….and blame the Conquistadors, not us.

19. We covered the Aztecs and Maya fairly extensively in middle and high school and I took a course on the Mexico-US borderlands in college that covered the indigenous peoples of that region extensively.

20. A lot, had to take LA history as part of my Spanish French and PT degree in undergrad.

21. Through my ancestors I am 1/8th indigenous Mexican. My great grandfather was Tarascan (or Purépecha). He immigrated in 1910 through El Paso, Texas at 10 years old with his brother who was 13 at the time. They had experience with farming and my grandfather made his way up to Michigan working beet farms where he met my great grandmother who was Ojibwa. I am originally from Michigan but moved to Indiana when I was 36 years old.

22. Arizona. Most of my friends are from Mexico or their parents are. I can’t say I know everything to know. But, I know a lot.

23. Texas.

    I like to read about the demographics of the world so I know a fair bit.

    The two main ones are Nahuas (the Aztecs were one of them) and Mayans, there are also Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Otomi, Mixe, Totonacs, Tarascans … At least those are the ones I can think of right now (as they were historically the most influental as well).

24. I’m from Southern California and I know a decent amount about the various pre-Columbian societies in Mexico, with particular focus on the Mayans, Aztecs, and the Teotihuacan civilization. In regards to these civilizations, I mostly remember the religious and aesthetic aspects of each. Some unifying characteristics I can recall are the worship of Quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent, the importance of sun deities, sacrificial ball-games, and the jade-obsidian trade.

    In regards to native history during colonial times, I’m aware that a large amount of native Mexicans died following Cortes’ conquest of Tenochtitlan and the ensuing smallpox epidemic, and that surviving natives combined aspects of Aztec religion with Roman Catholicism in traditions like the Day of the Dead and the veneration of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

25. Mainly just the major civilizations like the Aztec, Mayans, and the Olmec.