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Chichimeca - NativeWiki (755 words) |
 | Chichimeca was the name that the Mexica (Aztecs) generically applied to a wide range of semi-nomadic peoples who inhabited the north of modern-day Mexico. |
| The word "Chichimeca" was originally used by the Nahua to describe their own prehistory as a nomadic hunter-gatherer people and used in contrast to their later, more "civilized," urban lifestyle that they identified with the term Toltecatl.[ A term which has also caused confusion in later scholarship by being interpreted as an actual ethnic group. ] |
| The only somewhat nuanced description of the Chichimeca is found in Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España in which some Chichimec people such as the Otomi were described as knowing agriculture, living in settled communities, and having a religion devoted to the worship of the Moon. |
| Who are the Chichimeca?- Schmeg.com (615 words) |
| The term Chichimeca is one that is not usually heard. |
| In studying the Chichimeca, the origins are found in the distant past. |
| In Webster's "New Standard Dictionary," the definition of Chichimeca is "An Indian of the Nahuatalan or Pima tribes of Mexico before the Aztec invasion and loosely any of the less civilized tribes of Northern Mexico."(Di Peso, 56). |
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