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HUICHOL (pronounced Veetchol—a corruption of the native name V ishalika orITirarika, doctors or healers) , a tribe of Mexican See also:Indians living in a mountainous region on the eastern See also:side of the Chapalagana See also:river, See also:Jalisco. Huichol tradition assigns the See also:south as their See also:place of origin. Their name of " healers " is deserved, for about one-See also:fourth of the men are Shamans. The Huichols are in much the same social See also:condition as at the See also:time of the Aztec See also:empire. They were conquered by the Spaniards in 1722. For full description of the See also:people and their habits see Carl Lumholtz, Unknown See also:Mexico (1903).

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