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I'm married to a Salvadoran, and am very interested in the history and culture of indigenous Salvadoran people. So interested, in fact, that I studied anthropology in college and completed my senior thesis in El Salvador in 2006. Everything I ever read about the origins of indigenous peoples in El Salvador was about the Pipiles and how we know nothing about them due to La Gran Matanza. I cannot express how grateful I am to you for your enlightenment on the complex and diverse origins of El Salvador's indigenous population.
Indigenous Peoples of El Salvador
Many Salvadorans think that Pipil is the main indigenous root of the Salvadoran people. Pipiles may have been the largest group at the time of the Spanish conquest and might be the only group that maintained an explicitly indigenous identity beyond the matanza of the 1930s, but El Salvador has ...
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