The Indigenous Governor of Tlaxcala and Acceptable Indigenousness in the Porfirian Regime.

This article examines how Prospero Cahuantzi, governor of Tlaxcala from 1885-1911, claimed his Indigenous heritage. Cahuantzi asserted his Indigenousness by contributing to the Porfirian administration's nation- building campaigns, which glorified Mexico's Indigenous past. The article traces how Cahuantzi collected, disseminated, and protected Indigenous arti-facts and history. Through his actions, which included giving speeches in Nahuatl at the Eleventh International Congress of Americanists (Mexico City, 1895), Cahuantzi ingratiated himself to national and international elites. Thus, the article shows howCahuantzi's Indigenousness helped him to secure a permanent political position in Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship (1876-1910). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]