Tarascans
- plural of Tarascan.
Example Sentences
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The drivers who were in charge of them were pure Tarascans.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
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 Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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 Tarascans and other tribes to the west had resisted its power, and shortly before the advent of the Spaniards the Tlascalans to the east had defeated the Aztecs in battle.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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 Starr, Frederick
