The national identity and traditional Mexican culture have been made, to a large extent, from a strongly centralist perspective, where Mexico City and certain mesoamerican´s cultures have predominated. However, the indigenous territories and cultures of northern Mexico have their own historical dynamics, which are sometimes very different from those of the center of the country. However, far from recognizing such differences, official Mexican history has simply chosen to exclude from its domains the cultures of the north and also many cultures of central and southern Mexico, which have never had a place in national identity or in history. official Mexican, where they have been portrayed only marginally and not infrequently, through various stigmas, such as savage, hostile, backward, primitive, enemy of civilization, etc. This paper reflects on the materialization of this phenomenon in the museums of Mexico, and the way in which these enclosures can be conceived as a disputed territory, around the claim of memory, cultural identity and the political struggles of the natives cultures.
