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RANGEL GUZMAN, Efraín  e  MARIN GARCIA, Jorge Luis. Territorial Displacements and New Tepehuan Settlements. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2014, vol.35, n.137, pp.149-178. ISSN 2448-7554.

Since pre-Hispanic times, the mobility of the Tepehuanes from the southern area of the Northern Sierra in Nayarit and southern Durango to coastal areas in Nayarit and Sinaloa has been an important option for satisfying their basic needs, including alimentation, dress, physical integrity, and acquiring products needed to celebrate their ancestral "customs". In earlier times, this was a "back-and-forth" movement, but for at least the past 100 years, due to diverse factors, many Tepehuanes have not returned to the Sierra, preferring to settle in places that make going back to their communities of origin difficult. So we can say that the geography of the Tepehuan region has changed. This article attempts to provide answers to the following questions: What causes the displacement of the Tepehuanes?; What is the present-day geography of the region?; and, What differences and similarities exist in the cultural characteristics of the Tepehuan population that resides in these new settlements and those who remain in the communities called "traditional"?

Palavras-chave : displacements; new settlements; southern Tepehuanes; sierra-coast.