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  • noun Any of an indigenous people of Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico.

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Examples

  • The state's largest indigenous linguistic groups are the Zapotec, Mixtec, Mazatec, Chinantec, and Mixe.

    Did you know? In Chiapas, Mexico's Mam turn to organic farming 2008

  • The state's largest indigenous linguistic groups are the Zapotec, Mixtec, Mazatec, Chinantec, and Mixe.

    Did you know? In Chiapas, Mexico's Mam turn to organic farming 2008

  • The state's largest indigenous linguistic groups are the Zapotec, Mixtec, Mazatec, Chinantec, and Mixe.

    Did you know? In Chiapas, Mexico's Mam turn to organic farming 2008

  • With this field identification, together with subsequent collections made among the Zapotec, Mixtec, and Chinantec, he settled for good the vexing mystery of ololiuqui.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • In the pueblito of Santa Cruz Tepetotutla he exchanged malaria tablets for five mushrooms known to the Chinantec as nañ-tauga.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • She spent a month among the Chinantec in 1935, traversed the Chinantl in 1936, and was with Bevan, Johnson, and Louise Lacaud when they first witnessed the mushroom ceremony in Huautla in 1938.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • His Chinantec hosts were less than pleased by this explanation.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • He traveled first to the town of Chiltepec, where he established a base, bought mules and supplies, and hired a field assistant, Guadalupe Martínez-Calderón, a young Chinantec youth who would remain with him for the entire expedition.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Not actually bitten, as he had explained to the Chinantec.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Passing through a number of Chinantec villages, they finally reached Yaveo; where they stayed with an old Austrian couple, Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm Barth, who owned a coffee plantation.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

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