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. The Purepechas ...

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. The ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — 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 ...

THERMAL, CALIF. — Here in the sprawling, forlorn trailer park called Duroville, hope is as fleeting as the wind and fragile as a butterfly. It can arise suddenly, only to be crushed beneath the daily ...

Colorado researchers have discovered and partially mapped a major urban center once occupied by the Purépecha of Mexico, a little-known people who fought the Aztecs to a standstill and who controlled ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. As you enter the restaurant, there’s a bar on the right, tables on the left ...

When researchers surveyed the ruins of a Purépecha Empire city in Mexico the old-fashioned way a decade ago, it took them two seasons to explore two square kilometres. Good thing they decided to use ...

A pre-Columbian pyramid at Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, Michoacán, Mexico, has partially collapsed following downpours around Lake Pátzcuaro, according to Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología ...

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 before ...