The Mixtec (Nuu Savi, People of the Rain) are an indigenous Mesoamerican people of the mountainous Mixteca region spanning what is now Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero in southern Mexico. Before the Spanish conquest they built a network of competing city-states rather than a single empire, and produced some of Mesoamerica's finest pictographic screenfold codices, recording dynastic history, warfare and religious ritual in a distinctive pictorial writing system. Mixtec communities and language, part of the Oto-Manguean family, remain living today across the Mixteca and in diaspora communities in Mexico City and the United States.
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Diaspora PresenceLiving Mixtec communities remain across the Mixteca region today, with significant diaspora populations in Mexico City and, since the twentieth century, in agricultural regions of the United States, notably California. 1 Origins
Origin RegionLa Mixteca: the mountainous region spanning Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero, southern Mexico 1 Language FamilyOto-Manguean (Mixtecan branch) 1 Connections
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Source Encounter with the Plumed Serpent: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica (Jansen and Perez Jimenez)Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez
This source names Mesoamerican Peoples directly: "The Mixtec (Nuu Savi, People of the Rain) are an indigenous Mesoamerican people of the mountainous Mixteca region spanning what is now Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero in southern Mexico."
Source Encounter with the Plumed Serpent: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica (Jansen and Perez Jimenez)Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez
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1. Encounter with the Plumed Serpent: Drama and Power in the Heart of Mesoamerica (Jansen and Perez Jimenez)
Maarten Jansen and Gabina Aurora Perez Jimenez, University Press of Colorado, 2007
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