 During the ensuing Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Chichimecas Jonaz descendants, whom are the Pame nation, joined the Chichimeca Confederation to fight against the Spanish Empire in the Chichimeca War.The Chichimeca Confederation defeated the Spanish Empire in this forty-year war.The Chichimeca War was the longest lasting and most expensive military conflict to Spain in the history of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.