Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tzeltal people are the largest indigenous group mostly located in the highlands or Los Altos region of the Mexican state of Chiapas. They are one of many Mayan ethnic groups and they speak a language which belongs to the Tzeltalan subgroup of Mayan languages. Most Tzeltals live in communities in about twenty municipalities under a Mexican system called “usos y costumbres” which seeks to respect traditional indigenous authority and politics.
