Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca was a Mexica settlement, before it was destroyed and conquered by the Otomi and the Spanish conquistadors.
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Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España provides a fuller account: he describes some Chichimec people, such as the Otomi, as knowing agriculture, living in settled communities, and having a religion devoted to the worship of the Moon.
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Still other Chichimec peoples maintain separate identities into the present day, for example the Otomi, Chichimeca Jonaz, Cora, Huichol, Pame, Yaqui, Mayo, O'odham and the Tepehuan peoples.
The area’s religious practices attracted researchers around the same time and the first Otomi bark paper sold to foreigners were in the form of cut outs by the shamans, to researchers such as Frederick Starr and Bodil Christensen who wrote about the manufacture and use of the paper.
Also, the area has been inhabited by various indigenous peoples such as the Otomi, the Mexica, the Toltecs and the Tepehua.
XETUMI-AM (La Voz Mazahua Otomí – "The Mazahua Otomi Voice") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Mazahua and Otomi from El Malacate, municipality of Tuxpan, in the Mexican state of Michoacán.