Tarascan
Americannoun
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Tarascans,
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Tarascan
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a member of an Indigenous people of Michoacán state, in southwestern Mexico.
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the language of the Tarascans.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Tarascan
First recorded in 1910–15; from Spanish Tarasco, from Tarascan tarascue “father-in-law; son-in-law” + -an ( def. )
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The wiry little Tarascan growing up in the mountains of Guerrero in Southwestern Mexico wanted nothing so much as to be a writer and historian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carrillo Flores, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian whose father was the 19th child of illiterate parents, made $100,000 a year as a lawyer-and economist, took something like a $75,000 cut to come to Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also likely to enter the race is one-eyed General Joaquin Amaro, a full-blooded Tarascan Indian who still had rings in his ears when he first rode into Mexico City some 25 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was late when we reached the town, which consists in large part of mestizos and indians who speak little but native Tarascan.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The work is curious, and I am inclined to see in it a surviving imitation of the ancient feather-work for which the ancient Tarascans were famous.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
The first Tarascan name is given in the spelling used by Tarascans followed by the phonetic equivalent in English in parentheses.
From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.
The drivers who were in charge of them were pure Tarascans.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
Olid in Michoacán.—The same year, 1522, marks the extension of Spanish rule into Michoacán, the territory of the hitherto independent Tarascans.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
Thence we went to Patzcuaro by rail, and studied the Tarascans in the villages about Lake Patzcuaro, visiting these by canoe-trips.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
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