Xi'oi

The Xi'oi were northern Pame people of central Mexico, whose territory stretched along the Sierra Madre. They hunted, traded and lived near settled Nahua, Otomi and Purépecha communities on the Mesoamerican frontier.

Pame and their neighbours resisted the Spanish in 1522 but were defeated. Spanish ranches and Otomi settlements displaced them from parts of the Bajío in the 1530s, while soldiers and Franciscans conquered their more remote Sierra Gorda territory in 1742.