He is a Purepecha, an indigenous Indian from the Mexican state of Michoacan. In the 1970s, Purepechas began leaving the cool volcanic highlands of the Mexican city of Ocumicho for the parched town ...

The Purepecha were a major civilisation which peaked in the 16th century, with its capital Tzintzuntzan also located beside Lake Patzcuaro in western Mexico. Mr Fisher was part of a team which ...

The Purépecha, a Mexican indigenous group, holds an annual celebration in the eastern Coachella Valley in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Catholics believe the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared ...

Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era Spanish priest.

Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year.

COMACHUEN, Mexico — In Comachuen, a Purepecha Indigenous community of about 10,000 inhabitants nestled high in the pine-clad mountains of the western state of Michoacan, the whole town survives ...