Huexotzinca

The Huexotzinca ( Huexōtzinca ' ) were a Nahua people in today's Mexican state of Puebla , who lived on the eastern slope of the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanic chain and in the lowland of the Río Atoyac . In pre-Hispanic times they had largely been able to maintain their independence from the Aztecs until the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors . The main place of the Huexotzinca was the place Huexotzinco , from which its name is derived.

The political conditions in the region went back to the migration movements after the end of the Toltec supremacy in central Mexico. The immigration and conquests of Chichimec groups, who called themselves Teochichimecs (real Chichimecs), and who superimposed the older indigenous population and brought them into a dependent status, resulted in a very complex ethnic structure.

literature

• Nigel Davies (1980). The Toltec Heritage: From the Fall of Tula to the Rise of Tenochtitlan. The Civilization of the American Indian Series 153. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-1505-X
• Michael E. Smith (1984): The Aztlan Migrations of Nahuatl Chronicles: Myth or History? (PDF; 3.3 MB) . Ethnohistory 31 (3), 153-186.