The Ahomes were a native people living around the mouth of the
Fuerte River
The Fuerte River is a river in the state of Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico. It flows from headwaters in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Pacific Ocean in the Gulf of California.
Course
It begins at the junction of the Rio Verde (also called ...
at the time they first came into contact with the Spanish. The Ahomes were brought under Spanish military control and
Jesuit
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religious leadership from 1600 to no later than 1609, and largely were merged into the culture of
New Spain
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after this time.
Sources
*Spice, Edward H. ''Cycles of Conquest''. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962.
Ethnic groups in Mexico
Indigenous peoples in Mexico
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