Israelites
The people of ancient Israel in the Bible, divided into tribes whose lands could not pass from one tribe to another. Some Spaniards believed the peoples of the Americas descended from them.
The Calpulli and Its Lands
Alonso de Zorita, Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain (written in Spain after 1565): the calpulli and its lands · written in Spain after Zorita's return from Mexico in the mid-1560s; first printed in French in 1840 and in Spanish in 1864
Por manera que nunca jamás se daban ni dan las tierras á quien no sea natural del calpulli ó barrio, que es como los israelitas que no podían ni era lícito enajenar las tierras ó posesiones de un tribu en otro;
So the lands were never given, and still are not, to anyone who is not a native of the calpulli or neighborhood. It is like the Israelites, who were not allowed to pass the lands or holdings of one tribe to another.