Guaxaban

The Guaxaban were an Indigenous people of the northern Guanajuato frontier, related to Guachichil communities and allied with neighboring groups. Franciscan missionary Bernardo Cossin founded a church called San Francisco at Carrizalejo and gathered Guaxaban people around it. The spread of Spanish ranches and missions did not end resistance in the region: in 1589 Guaxaban fighters attacked an estate near San Felipe, taking livestock. Their history belongs to the long struggle and negotiation over the Chichimeca frontier.