Regions with significant populations | |
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Mexico (Guanajuato) | |
Languages | |
Guamares Language | |
Religion | |
Indigenous Religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Chichimecas |
The Guamare people were an indigenous people of Mexico, who were established mostly in Guanajuato and at the border of Jalisco.[1] They were part of the Chichimecas, a group of a nomadic hunter-gatherer culture and called themselves Children of the Wind, living religiously from the natural land. As a tradition, they would cremate their dead and spread their ashes into the wind back to 'Mother Earth'. The Guamare people were politically united with the Chichimeca Confederation, but like other Chichimeca nations were independent. The Chichimeca were established in the present-day Bajio region of Mexico.