Explore: Tepehua Indians

cultural anthropology of the Americas. Gessain spent time with the Huehuetla Tepehua people in Hidalgo, Mexico, and wrote in 1947 about the spot's "location

The Totonac people traditionally speak Totonac, which, together with Tepehua, form a small language family. This means that Totonacan languages are

formally separated what they called the República de Indios (the Republic of Indians) from the República de Españoles (Republic of Spaniards), with the latter

example is the title of the 16 volumes of The Handbook of Middle American Indians. "Mesoamerica" is broadly defined as the area that is home to the Mesoamerican

 • S Veracruz  • 25,000 Chimalapa Totonac  • Puebla, Veracruz  • 250,000 Tepehua  • Hidalgo, Veracruz  • 10,000 Huamelultec (Lowland Oaxaca Chontal)  • SE

known members in Mexico Totonacan languages: Totonac (different varieties) Tepehua (different varieties) Oto-Manguean languages: Oto-pamean branch: Northern

America) languages Corachol (Cora–Huichol) Aztecan (Nahua–Pochutec) Totonac–Tepehua Otomanguean Otopamean Popolocan–Mazatecan Subtiaba–Tlapanec Amuzgo Mixtecan

areal-typological study of American Indian languages north of Mexico. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Sletcher, Michael, 'North American Indians', in Will Kaufman and Heidi

there was no strict idea of race (something that continued in Mexico). The Indians that had lost their connections with their communities and had adopted

Guarijio Jacaltec Mexicanero Ocuiltec Pame Pima Bajo Qʼanjobʼal Tacuate Tepehua Fewer than 1,000 people Aguacatec Cochimí Cocopah Ixcatec Ixil Kaqchikel