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Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations , Inuit , and Métis peoples collectively.
Greenland [ edit ]
Benito Juárez , Zapotec , President of Mexico
Porfirio Díaz , Mexican Army General, President of Mexico
This issue is complicated because a great majority of Mexicans are mestizos and therefore being part Native is not unusual as in Canada or the US. The list only include Indigenous proper and mestizos with an Indigenous parent. This list also includes a few Pre-Columbian figures considered remarkable in the history and culture of Mexico .
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl , (d. 1648) Nahua historian, descendant of Ixtlilxochitl
Bartolomé de Alva , Nahua, younger brother of Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl
Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin , tlatoani of Tenochtitlan
Domingo Arenas , Mexican revolutionary from Tlaxcala
Juan Badiano , Nahua translator
Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza , anarchist, feminist activist, typographer, journalist and poet (Caxcan )
Cajemé , Yaqui rebel leader
Jacinto Canek (1731-1761), Maya rebel leader
Chimalpahin (1579-1660), Nahua historian
Cuauhtémoc , last (Aztec ) Tlatoani
Cuitláhuac , penultimate (Aztec ) Tlatoani
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin , Catholic Saint (Chichimeca )
Porfirio Díaz , President (Mixtec mother)
Pascual Díaz y Barreto (1876-1936), Huichol Roman Catholic prelate
Lila Downs , singer (Mixtec mother)
Emilio Fernández , film director, actor (Kickapoo mother)
Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca professor, lawyer, and translator of the Nahuatl language.
Natalio Hernández (b. 1947) Nahua poet from Veracruz
Victoriano Huerta , President (Huichol mother)
Indio Mariano , rebel leader in Tepic
Luz Jiménez (1897-1965), Nahua storyteller
Benito Juárez , President (Zapotec )
La Malinche , translator of conquistador Hernán Cortés
Modesta Lavana , (1929-2010), Nahua healer
Florentina López de Jesús (1939-2014), Amuzgo weaver
Tomás Mejía , Otomi Mexican Army general
Moctezuma II , (Aztec ) Tlatoani at the beginning of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529-1599), historian of Tlaxcala
Nezahualcóyotl , Tlatoani of Texcoco and poet in Nahuatl language
Nezahualpilli (1464-1515), Tlatoani of Texcoco
Martín Ocelotl (1496-?1537), Nahua priest/shaman executed by the Inquisition
Carlos Ometochtzin (d. 1539) Cacique of Texcoco, executed by the Inquisition
Daniel Ponce de León (b. 1980) Tarahumara professional boxer
Comandante Ramona , EZLN leader (Tzotzil )
Isabel Ramírez Castaneda (1881-1943), (Nahua) archeologist
María Sabina , shaman (Mazatec )
Comandante Tacho , EZLN leader (Tojolabal )
Refugio Tánori , Opata commander and supporter of the Second Mexican Empire .
Francisco Tenamaztle (fl. 1540s-50s) Caxcan leader in the Mixton War
Antonio Valeriano (c. 1521-1605), Nahua scholar, collaborator with Bernardino de Sahagún on the Florentine Codex
Felipe Santiago Xicoténcatl , 1804-1847 Nahua, general in the Mexican Army under Antonio López de Santa Anna
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Hatuey , Cacique , executed in 1512 by the Spanish, hero in modern Cuba
Rigoberta Menchú , K'iche' Maya Nobel Peace Prize recipient from Guatemala
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Guatemala [ edit ]
Nicaragua [ edit ]
South America [ edit ]
Alejandro Toledo , Ex-President of Peru
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Colombia [ edit ]
Ecuador [ edit ]
Camilo Egas , Mestizo , painter and educator, 1889–1962
Eugenio Espejo , Mestizo journalist, hygienist, lawyer, and satirical writer, 1747–1795
Oswaldo Guayasamín , Quechua painter and sculptor, 1919–1999
Eduardo Kingman , Mestizo painter, 1913–1998
Luis Macas , Quechua anthropologist and politician, born 1951
Mincaye , Hauo preacher and church elder, born 1935
Nina Pacari , Kichwa politician, lawyer and Indigenous leader from Cotacachi, born 1961
Antonio Vargas , Quechua politician
Tupac Amaru , military figure and last Inca
Túpac Amaru II (1738-1781), leader of massive Andean uprising against Spanish colonial rule
Túpac Katari (c. 1750-1781), leader of an Andean uprising
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , writer
Yma Sumac , Singer of self-identified Inca ancestry
Alejandro Toledo , President
Marcos Zapata (c. 1710–1773), Quechua Cuzco School painter
Magaly Solier , Quechua actress
Manco Cápac , Sapa Inca
Ollanta Humala , President of Peru
Q'orianka Kilcher , Quechua actress
Martín Chambi , Quechua photographer
Diego Quispe Tito , Quechua painter
See also [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Indigenous_people_of_the_Americas&oldid=1230661656 "
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● T h i s p a g e w a s l a s t e d i t e d o n 2 4 J u n e 2 0 2 4 , a t 0 0 : 2 0 ( U T C ) .
● T e x t i s a v a i l a b l e u n d e r t h e C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s A t t r i b u t i o n - S h a r e A l i k e L i c e n s e 4 . 0 ;
a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n .
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