Acaxee
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The Acaxee or Acaxees were a tribe or group of tribes in the
Uto-Aztecan language family. Their culture was based on horticulture and the exploitation of wild animal and plant life. They are now extinct as an identifiable ethnic group.[1]
History
In December 1601, the Acaxees, under the direction of an elder named
Ethnographer Ralph Beals reported in the early 1930s that the Acaxee tribe from western Mexico played a ball game called "vatey [or] batey" on "a small plaza, very flat, with walls at the sides".[3]Subdivisions
- Acaxee (proper)
- Sabaibo
- Tebaca
- Papudo
- Tecaya
Notes
- ^ "Indians.org :: Indian Population of Mexico". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-02-01., accessed 1 Feb 2011
- ISBN 978-1-109-16040-6. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
- ISBN 0-8165-1360-0, 1991, p. 98. Kelley quotes Beals: Beals, Ralph J. The Acaxe, A Mountain Tribe of Durango and Sinaloa (Iberoamerican 6) University of California Press, Berkeley: 1933.
References
- Beals, Ralph L. 1933. The Acaxee: a Mountain Tribe of Durango and Sinaloa.
Further reading
- Deeds, Susan. Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. (2003) University of Texas Press, Austin, TX. ISBN 0-292-70551-4
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