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Thomas B. Hinton

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BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Author of A Survey of Indian Assimilation in Eastern Sonora.

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Map of northern Mexico and the U.S. border region showing the population distribution of Indigenous peoples by main linguistic groups. Areas shaded in purple represent Uto-Aztecan language groups, such as Tarahumara, Mayo, and Tohono O'odham, while green areas represent non-Uto-Aztecan groups, including Seri, Cocopa, and Kiliwa. Major Indigenous groups and their geographic locations are labeled within the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and neighboring re

Northern Mexican Indian

Northern Mexican Indian, member of any of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting northern Mexico. The generally accepted ethnographic definition of northern Mexico includes that portion of the country roughly north of a convex line extending from the Río Grande de Santiago on the Pacific coast to the…