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missionaries to live in their country. They had become a pagan island in a sea of
Christian Indians and Hispanic culture. In 1716, a Spanish expedition to attempt to bring the Cora under Spanish control failed. However, in 1722, the Spanish returned in force and the Cora yielded. According to
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Southern Uto-Aztecan language." In José Luis Moctezuma Zamarrón and Jane H. Hill (eds), Avances y balances de lenguas yutoaztecas; homenaje a Wick R. Miller p. 109-122. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología y
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313:, "our father". He travels across the sky during the day, sitting down in his golden throne at noon. Clouds are believed to be smoke from his pipe. In earlier times the priests of
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origins; for example, the myth of the creation of the fifth sun. Others are shared with the geographically and linguistically adjacent
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McMahon, Ambrosio & Maria Aiton de McMahon. (1959) Vocabulario Cora. Series de
Vocabularios Indigenas Mariano Silva y Aceves. SIL.
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Dahlgren Jordan, Barbro. (1994). Los Coras de la Sierra de
Nayarit. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas. UNAM. Mexico.
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Jesús María (spoken in the El Nayar settlements of Boca de Arroyo
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