Flashcards: Indigenous peoples of Central America

The Tz'utujil (Tzutujil, Tzutuhil, Sutujil) are a Native American people, one of the 21 Maya ethnic groups that dwell in Guatemala.

The Acolhua are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in or around the year 1200 CE.

The Guna, also known as Kuna or Cuna, are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia.

The Nahuas (/ˈnɑːwɑːz/) are a group of indigenous people of Mexico and El Salvador.

The Pipils or Cuzcatlecs are an indigenous people who live in western El Salvador, which they called Cuzcatlan.

The Jakaltek /hɑːkəlˈtɛk/ language (Jacalteco), also called Popti’, is a Mayan language of Guatemala spoken by 9,000 Jakaltek people in the department of Huehuetenango, and some 500 the adjoining part of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

The Ch'orti' people (alternatively, Ch'orti' Maya or Chorti) are one of the indigenous Maya peoples, who primarily reside in communities and towns of southeastern Guatemala, northwestern Honduras, and northern El Salvador.

The Miskito are a Native American ethnic group in Central America, of whom many are mixed race.

The Naso or Teribe people (also Tjër Di) are an indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica.

The Mazatec people are an indigenous people who inhabit an area known as the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico, as well as some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.

The Huave (also spelled Huavi or Wabi) are an indigenous people of Mexico.

The Totonac /ˈtoʊtoʊˌnɑːk/ people resided in the eastern coastal and mountainous regions of Mexico at the time of the Spanish arrival in 1519.

The Bribri are an indigenous people of Costa Rica.

The Paipai (Pai pai, Pa'ipai, Akwa'ala, Yakakwal) are an aboriginal people of northern Baja California, Mexico.

The Cora are an indigenous ethnic group of Western Central Mexico which live in the municipality El Nayar in the Mexican state of Nayarit and in a few settlements in the neighboring state of Jalisco.

The Otomi people (/ˌoʊtəˈmiː/; Spanish: Otomí Spanish: [otoˈmi]) are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the central altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico.

The Zapotecs (Zoogocho Zapotec: Didxažoŋ) are an indigenous people of Mexico.

The Rama are an indigenous people living on the eastern coast of Nicaragua.

The Tepanecs or Tepaneca are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries.

The Kaqchikel (also called Kachiquel) are one of the indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands in Guatemala.

The Jakaltek people are a Mayan people of Guatemala.

The Emberá people , also known in the historical literature as the Chocó or Katío Indians are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia.

The Mayangna (also known as Sumu or Sumo) are a people who live on the eastern coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras, an area commonly known as the Mosquito Coast.

Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica, or Native Costa Ricans, are the peoples who lived in what is now Costa Rica prior to European and African contact and the descendents of those peoples.

The Tolupan or Jicaque people are an indigenous ethnic group of Honduras, primarily inhabiting the northwest coast of Honduras and the community La Montaña del Flor in central Honduras.

The Boruca (also known as the Brunca or the Brunka) are an indigenous people living in Costa Rica.

The Xinca, also known as the Xinka, are a non-Mayan indigenous people of Mesoamerica, with communities in the southern portion of Guatemala, near its border with El Salvador, and in the mountainous region to the north.

The Bokota people, also called Bogotá or Bugleres, are an Amerindian ethnical group in Panama.

The Embera–Wounaan are a semi-nomadic indigenous people in Panama living in Darién Province on the shores of the Chucunaque, Sambú, Tuira Rivers and its water ways.