Chichimeca is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajio region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same sense as the Roman term "barbarian" to describe Germanic tribes.

What does Chichimeca mean in English?

noun. (also Chichimeco) 1A member of any of various indigenous peoples of Mexico, especially the nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples inhabiting northern and central Mexico before the Spanish conquest; = "Chichimec". Usually in plural.

Are chichimecas Aztecs?

The Mexica were a Chichimeca tribe that claimed to have come from a mythical northern homeland known as Aztlán, so when they arrived in central Mexico they were called ''people of Aztlán,'' or Aztecs. That's right, the Aztecs themselves were, ancestrally, Chichimeca people.