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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Nahuatlan Stock

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34820211911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 19 — Nahuatlan Stock

NAHUATLAN STOCK, a North and Central American Indian stock. Nahuas or Nahuatlecas was the collective name for the dominant Indian peoples of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, and the Nahuatlan stock consisted of the Nahuas (or Aztecs) and a few scattered tribes in Central America.