The Ahomes were a native people living around the mouth of the

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at the time they first came into contact with the Spanish. The Ahomes were brought under Spanish military control and

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religious leadership from 1600 to no later than 1609, and largely were merged into the culture of

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after this time.

Sources

*Spice, Edward H. ''Cycles of Conquest''. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1962. Ethnic groups in Mexico Indigenous peoples in Mexico {{NorthAm-native-stub