INDIANS IN MEXICO.
NOT DYING. Hoiv many, asks an American paper, have been prepared for tho statement recently made by the Geographic Society of Washington, that there are more Indians to-day within tho territory originally comprising Mexico than ever existed at any time in all the rest of the Western Hemisphere combined? Of the 15,000,000 inhabitants of Mexico, fully ■3B per cent, it is held, are Indians, while 43 per cent are of mixed blood. In round figures there are 6,000,000 Indians in Mexico, many of whom are descendants of the Aztecs. The latter are frequently of it most advanced type, and from, them have sprung some very able men, as, for instance, Juarez and. Diaz. Altogether, however, the degrees of civilisation are various. Authorities have it uiat in Mexico at the present time the Indian population may be divided into fourteen families and 13"J tribes, with
fifty-one languages and sixty-nine dialects.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 4
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152INDIANS IN MEXICO. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 4
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