Cuxtaque

The Cuxtaque were an Indigenous people associated with Cuxtan in the northern highlands of western Mexico. Their neighbors included the Xiconaque, whose communities lived between Nochistlán and the country around Lagos. Spanish accounts of the conquest describe the Cuxtaque and Xiconaque joining together against an expedition led by Hernando Martel in 1563. Their lands formed part of a wider frontier of small Indigenous communities affected by the advance of Spanish settlements and mining interests.