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 Xixime territory circa 1500 | |
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The Xixime[pronunciation?] were an indigenous people who inhabited a portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the present day states of Durango and Sinaloa, Mexico.[1][2] The Xixime are noted for their reported practice of cannibalism and resistance to Spanish colonization in the form of the Xixime Rebellion of 1610.[3]
- ^ "Cannibalism Confirmed Among Ancient Mexican Group". National Geographic News. 2011-10-01. Archived from the original on August 29, 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ^ Delgadillo, Sergio (2017). "El proceso de extinción de los acaxees y xiximes" (PDF). gob.mx.
- ^ Schroeder, Susan (1998). Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain. U of Nebraska Press. p. 22. ISBN 9780803292499.