Northern Mexican Indian: References & Edit History

Carl Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico, 2 vol. (1902, reprinted 2011), gives the first modern account of northern Mexican groups and is still a major source. Edward H. Spicer, Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960 (1962, reissued 2006), presents an overview of change since colonial times. Basic sources on the history, cultural geography, and ethnography are Carl Lumholtz, Symbolism of the Huichol Indians (1900, reissued 1997, edited and with a new introduction by Pablo de la Cruz, as Huichol Shamanic Emblems), on Huichol gods and beliefs; Ralph L. Beals, The Comparative Ethnology of Northern Mexico Before 1750 (1932), The Acaxee: A Mountain Tribe of Durango and Sinaloa (1933), and The Aboriginal Culture of the Cáhita Indians (1943, reprinted 1978); Carl Ortwin Sauer, The Distribution of Aboriginal Tribes and Languages in Northwestern Mexico (1934, reprinted 1983), and Aboriginal Population of Northwestern Mexico (1935, reprinted 1978); Campbell W. Pennington, The Tarahumar of Mexico: Their Environment and Material Culture (1963, reprinted 1974), and The Tepehuan of Chihuahua: Their Material Culture (1969), very good for material culture and ethnogeography of the northern sierra; Thomas R. McGuire, Politics and Ethnicity on the Río Yaqui (1986), a study of the modern Yaqui Indians; and Alan R. Sandstrom, Corn Is Our Blood: Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village (1991), on the Nahua in northern Veracruz state.