Tarascan men reeling cord for nets & making nets, 1899.

The Tarascan are a Native American people centered in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Tarascan is also the name of their historic language. The Tarascan language was still spoken by somewhat less than 100,000 people at the end of the 20th century, mostly in small rural villages. Recent attempts have been made to introduce the teaching of this language in the local school systems. Download high resolution version (760x611, 86 KB)Tarascans : Janicho (Michoacan), Reeling cord for nets & making nets, 1899. ... Download high resolution version (760x611, 86 KB)Tarascans : Janicho (Michoacan), Reeling cord for nets & making nets, 1899. ... Brazilian Indian chiefs The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. ... Michoacán de Ocampo (From michoaque, Nahuatl for those who have fish) is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

The Tarascans refer to themselves as Purépecha, and there is an ongoing discussion about which name should be considered as the correct one. The name Tarascan (and its Spanish language equivalent, tarasco) comes from the word tarascue in their own language, which means indistinctly "father in law" or "son in law". The Spaniards took it as their name, for reasons that have been attributed to different, mostly legendary, stories. The Nahuatl name for the Tarascans was michoaque (those-who-have-fish) – whence also the name of Michoacán. This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... Nahuatl is a native language of central Mexico. ...

The Tarascans or Purépecha were one of the pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica. Their capital city was Tzintzuntzan. Tarascan architecture is noted for step pyramids in the shape of the letter "T". Pre-Columbian Tarascan artisans made feather mosaics making extensive use of hummingbird feathers which were a highly regarded luxury good throughout the region. The Tarascans were never conquered by the Aztec Empire, despite several attempts by the Aztecs to do so, including a fierce war in 1479. This was probablly due to the fact of Purepecha's knowledge of metal working, an advantage over the Aztec. Even though they were enemies, the Aztec still traded with them, mainly for copper axes. The term Pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the New World in the era before significant European influence. ... Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ... Tzintzuntzán is a ruined Pre-Columbian city, capital of the Native American Tarascan or Purépecha nation. ... The Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan, is one example of an enormous step pyramid. ... T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. ... Genera Many, see text. ... The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central México the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. ... Events January 20 - Ferdinand II ascends the throne of Aragon and rules together with his wife Isabella, queen of Castile over most of the Iberian peninsula. ...

After hearing of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and having the native population much diminished by an epidemic of smallpox, the last native Tarascan king, Tangaxoan II, pledged himself as a vassal of the King of Spain without a fight in 1525. It is said that the 16-17 year old Princess Erendira of the Purepecha, led her people into a fierce war against the Spanish. Using the stolen Spanish horses her people learned to ride into battle. If not for her mysterious disappearance after her father's murder, the Purepecha would have defeated the Spanish. Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. ... Look up monarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Events January 21 - The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manzs mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. ... Princess Erendira of the Purepecha was the princess of the Purepecha or Tarascan people from about 1503-1519. ...

In 1530 the Governor and President of the Primera Audiencia, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, plundered the region and ordered the execution of Tangaxuan II, provoking a chaotic situation and widespread violence Events June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. ... Nuño Guzmán de Beltrán or Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (15th century-1550) was a Spanish conquistador and dictator in colonial Mexico. ...

In 1533 the Crown sent to Michoacan the experienced oidor and later bishop don Vasco de Quiroga, who managed to establish a lasting colonial order. Events January 25 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, his second Queen consort. ...

See also

• Pedro Dimas

Hi Don Pedro Dimas (born 1934) is a Mexican violinist, guitarist, composer, and preservationist of traditional music from the Purépecha, an indigenous culture in the Mexican state of Michoacán. ...

External links

Tarascan women

• Purépecha Literature
• Beautiful Purépecha women
• Purépecha mother with her son
• Learn about archaeological research with a Purépecha Community
• Chap. 9: The Twilight of the Gods: The Arrival of the Purépecha (Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon) (includes area map)