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Tolteca Chichimeca.

Headword: 
Tolteca Chichimeca.
Principal English Translation: 

an ethnic group (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 141.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yzcatqui yn intlatollo yn tolteca chichimeca ynic ualleuaque yn colhuacatepec ynic acico yn tollan yn imacica yn nonouallca oncan yn mocauhque y moxeloque yn tollan = He aquí el relato de los tolteca chichimeca, que vinieron de Colhuacatepec y llegaron a Tollan, con su complemento los nonoualca. Allá en Tollan se quedaron, se dividieron. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 141.

auh yn yeuantin yn tolteca chichimeca oc caxtolxiuhtillique yn oncan tollan = pero los tolteca chichmeca permanecieron aún 15 años en Tollan (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 142.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity