Editing Totonac (section)

=== Spanish influence ===
The area around Veracruz consists of rainy, hilly, lands, requiring farmers to constantly move to combat verdant overgrowth.  Essentially, it was easier for the Totonacs to clear new patches of land for their agriculture rather than maintain cleared land. Because of constant movement essentially in response to extraordinary verdancy, Totonac people never really had settled community groups due to the need to move to promote their form of agriculture, leading to a culture that could be thought of as regionally nomadic agriculturalists.The Spanish could never truly and completely conquer the Totonacs.  The Spaniards sought two things out of Indigenous inhabitants; mining resources (i.e. gold or silver) or settled populations for labor.  Since there was no gold or silver in the Veracruz region, and because of the regionally nomadic community structure, the Totonacs were not candidates for slave labor. In summary, Spanish colonial influence upon the Totonacs was relatively weak when compared with Indigenous groups throughout central and south America.<ref name=":0" />

==== Conflict in Papantla ====
In the late 19th century, the vanilla industry in [[Papantla]] was still massive, which placed a high value on its land. In 1891, the Mexican government wanted to claim and privatize the land, taking it away from being communally owned by the Totonacs. As Severiano Galicia led officials and troops into Papantla to survey and claim land, Totonac rancheros met them with force. This marked the start of nearly a decade of conflict in Papantla as the divided Totonacs fought either with or against federal troops in order to preserve or privatize the communal Totonac land. Some argue that this conflict directly contributed to the start of the Mexican Revolution as a whole. <ref name=":0" />