 "Pame Doll" by Anonymous, made of knotted plant fiber, located at the Museum of Popular Art in Mexico City. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approximately 10,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| San Luis Potosí | |
| Languages | |
| Pame, Mexican Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Pame religion, Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Chichimeca Jonaz, Ximpece |
The north Pame, or Xi'iuy (alternate spelling: Xi'úi, Xi'ui, Xi'oi, or Xiyui), as they refer to themselves, the south Pame, or Ñáhu, Nyaxu (in Hidalgo), and the Pame in Querétaro or Re Nuye Eyyä,[1] are an Indigenous people of central Mexico primarily living in the state of San Luis Potosí. When Spanish colonists arrived and conquered their traditional territory in the sixteenth century, which "extended from the modern state of Tamaulipas in the north to Hidalgo and the area around Mexico City in the south along the Sierra Madre," they renamed "the area Pamería, and applied the name Pame to all of the peoples there."[2]
Estimates for population of the Pames at the time of contact with Spanish colonists in 1519 range between 40,000 and 70,000. In 1794, the population was estimated at 25,000.[3] Recent figures for the Pame have estimated the population to be approximately 10,000 people.[2][4] The Pames, along with the Chichimeca-Jonaz of the Sierra Gorda in eastern Guanajuato, are the only two intact cultural groups "of all the peoples known collectively as Chichimecas" who have survived colonization.[3]
- ^ Villanueva, Rebeca Barriga; Martín Butragueño, Pedro (2014). Historia sociolingüística de México.: Volumen 3. Espacio, contacto y discurso político. El Colegio de México, A.C. ISBN 9786074625233.
- ^ a b Valdés, José Luis Lara (2012). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 9780765682222.
- ^ a b The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2. Cambridge University Press. 2000. pp. 111–113. ISBN 9780521652049.
- ^ Adler-Lomnitz, Larissa; Elena, Rodrigo Salazar; Adler, Ilya (2010). Symbolism and Ritual in a One-party Regime: Unveiling Mexico's Political Culture. University of Arizona Press. pp. 164–166. ISBN 9780816527533.