Did she appear Spanish (European)? Also, sorry for your loss 🙏🏾😔

I guess some of them don't believe that there were already Natives in Mexico before Spain colonized Mexico.

Yo, these wife's note the true devil. They have to separate every call to this, not ghost like them. Ghost of a color like them.

Ditto.

When the Spaniards came to Mexico the ships didn't bring many Spanish women. So when people from New Mexico and Southern Colorado state they are 100% Spanish, I mention this to them. Plus in Spain there are log books of the people who came on these vessels and there were few women listed in there.

Growing up going to an all white school in the US I may have been offended as well because people were blatantly racist towards me for being brown.

It is definetly important how you say indigenous or refer to it. As some people feel like you are telling them they are less than since many Mexicans are not in a tribe. So saying you look indiginous translates you are a native indigenous person. For some people its a sensitive topic. Its all about the context and also the individual person this is said to.

Emblem of the Americas 1798 the American Indians

well, when they are all raised with european beliefs and languages they usually teach you to hate the Natives.

@@gew20271492

Mexican is a race and Mexico is a nation. Mexicans have their own ethnicity. Do some research

​@@kima3565Mexican is a race??? Since when? I was taught there are only 3 races: black, white, and Asian.

A considerable proportion of Mexico is Indian (of the type indigenous to the Americas) or part Indian. I've long heard that many of the Indians of Mexico loudly say that they are NOT Hispanic/Latino and that Spanish, in ANY form, is not their language.

​@@kima3565that can't be true because some Mexicans are black some are white some are Chinese. Mexicans are every race.

💯 Mexican is a nationalist with many ethnicities , Mexico has 27 native tribes , German , Irish , Spanish, Jewish/ middle eastern ,African, and plenty of mixtures of people , the majority are mixed race just like the rest of central and South America 🥂

thank you for commenting! I used to teach on the Diné Rez in New Mexico. NM is my favorite place in the country

You all didn't trade coffee before the Spanish arrived 😂

They didn't speak Aztec, Most of Mexico spoke Nahuatl. it's part of Uto-Aztecan languages; found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico

Are you navajo or are from thier reservation? Its a big difference, The Navajo are not original to our land, In fact ancestors of ours knew the Mexican was our peoples thought we fought them, But knew the Navajo came from someplace else though we got along with them. I'm sure thought since you were labeled Apache you took in many of our peoples. But i would be interesting to find out why our ancestors spoke such things. From what i gathered Navajo came from another land & intermixed with others of our peoples but not originally of our peoples. Like from Asia or something? Though what i know of Navajo it indeed does seem to be of our peoples, However thier is also rumor's that over time they have stolen bits & pieces of other tribes beliefs. But I have not found any evidence of that. Shallawam Shallom Ayo Hawwah Great Spirit Bless.

Thanks brotha!

That name was imposed by a tiny elite governing from Mexico City tho. People in my state never considered themselves to be Mexican until New Spain gained independence and rebrandes itself as Mexico. My state had no Mexica presence in pre-Columbian times either.

​@@TheJosmanWhat do you mean imposed? Iturbide declare the independence and everyone in the territory no matter color,flavor or size became Mexican.

"Aztec empire" The Aztecs did not exist... they were called Mexicas... "Aztecs" is a myth

@@TheJosman Which state?

@@LaberintoAzul They became nationalist and withheld their caste system, which was created to further divide and conquer people. Reconnected indigenous people aren’t actually “free” and are always living in extremely poor conditions. Indigenous people everywhere have the highest poverty rates.

You're right, and Mexico (the government) and Mexican people treat them like garbage. A lot of discrimination towards them.

When I went to cancun and got a tour of the pyramids, we saw the indigenous Mayans, and Oxacans get treated low class. They truly rough it out there 100 percent of the time in the jungle, roofs are rare.. 0.o

@@antoineleedolliole7549 Yeah, but this was long ago, you killed Americans when you where expanded to the west, It's not the same now

​​Theres a movement of Black Americans pushing the notion that the Olmec, Mayan and Mexica are black 🤢​@@antoineleedolliole7549

What’s the name of your tribe?

I’m not a historian, but that makes sense, since before anyone colonized this continent, there were no imaginary lines saying, “This is Mexico, USA, Canada, etc.” Very nice story ❤

You are natives too but the difference they preserved their language while yout ancestors adopted Spanish language and religion

@@JUVENTUS299Not everyone in Mexico adopted Spanish as a language. Close to 60 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico nowadays. Unfortunately those who don’t speak Spanish are discriminated against and their rights are violated since they comprised the most marginalized section of our society as a nation.

@LlamameJazz they should be rewarded instead of getting punished for maintaining their language and culture that connected to the land Spanish language is nothing but the languages of colonizers stole this land and enslaved the locals and raped the natives Any country despise it's own history. It won't go forward without the association with its past

@@LlamameJazz Once the Indigenous from New Spain lost the protection granted by the Hispanic Monarchy, they became the prime victims of the newborn Mexican Republic in 1823, this government composed mostly of members of Freemasonry, who were the ones who orchestrated the destruction of the Spanish Empire, were subordinates and agents to the British Empire and its interests, and therefore, aligned to its ideologies of racial superiority that would dominate the next 200 years until today, a power that still dominates the world, and the reason why this abuses are still committed.

Because it's all bs, us Mexicans are Hispanics period, and we should be proud of our Hispanic heritage, viva Mexico y viva la Madre patria España

I'm interested, I love learning about native culture as well, but let's be real too, scientifically in Mexico paternal haplogroups are predominantly european, about 60-70% come from european haplogroups, about 30% of Mexico's paternal haplogroups are Indigenous, Our maternal haplogroups are predominantly native, but they adopted most of our forfather's cultures. If you think about it, everything we love about Mexico today is predominantly hispanic and adopted elements of our mother's native culture, So in reality we are mestizo and culturally more hispanic.Nothing wrong with that, it's how we evolve as species.

as a black american you should look up the trans pacific slave trade.....

😂 Stop the lies. Latinos are a new race. The so called indigenous tribes owe black Americans reparations too. They need to Ditch the pride talk and give us our reparations for helping put black Americans in slavery. And changing Indian to native... it's getting old... looking at pale bi racials faces tell us they indigenous and this they land

@@youuknow4670 Yes

That is because YOU are original to this land. Not the "Mexicans", and not the "Native Americans".

​@@curtisokemahlvpvtpvke822😂😂 exactly that person misinformed

100 :)

I’m a Mestiza and I’m so proud of every part of my ancestry

The indigenous are the jews from the tribe of issachar

❤❤❤❤ Me too

For a long time, I had it, coming to AMERICAN does that, racism is real, so I tried to be as much American as possible. I am proud again, I am apache. My grandmother was Indian from jalisco m exico. I finally did research and found my roots via my gradmothers side.

Half of you did your half of you is native the other half spanish sorry thats why we are La Raza The Race that didn't exist till the spanish got here Like the Amerasians from servicemen who were in vietnam during the war, except the spanish were there for 300yrs. My sister did the 23 and me dna thing and it said native American and Iberian peninsula(spain) and a certain amount sub suharan African from the Moors (Muslims) invaded spain for 300 yrs.

But you did cross the Bering Strait

This guy is Mexican ~▪︎which is commonly Mestizo which is half European and Mexican - Indigenous. We have our own unique culture and speak an European Language. He is NOT pure Mexican ~ Indigenous if he was his hair would be very straight and thin😂🎉! His hair is very Mestizo thick 'n WAVY ~ a dead give - away😮🎉😂!

Alot of us hispanics are mestizos or mixed with indigenous tribes from Mexico and Spanish or Portuguese blood.

We are Hispanics period, and we should be proud of our Hispanic heritage

@@jaym.4611 and many with african blood too

@@gustavosandoval4480 Hispanic is not a race.

@@gustavosandoval4480yes we are Hispanic but that label doesn’t apply the same to many of the European descendent as well as to the descendants of natives as well as the Africans. It is much more complicated than just “Hispanic” and some of us are proud of those roots we share; like the menonitas that still speak in German; to My Great Grandfather being indigenous and speaking his language.

That would include Nahuatl.

I'm proud my children have a large Otomi heritage from my husband's side. Their DNA test through Ancestry showed 47% - 49% Otomi and Chichimeca. My husband seems not to care, but I do. I can't wait to visit Querétaro and meet his family and the community there. I am learning a few things in Hnahnu and Nahuatl just in case I by chance get to meet anyone who still speaks those languages. The small town he is from mostly speaks Spanish, but I've read many online books about the surrounding areas that still speak indigenous languages. I love that my children have a connection to the indigenous of Mexico. My ancestors are from Scotland and Ireland and I think that's cool too. I hope to learn a few things in Gaelic as well, and I read a few things about the mysterious ancient Picts.

@@pdcdesign9632 Absolutely.

​@annasalmans5523 I've always believed everyone should be proud of their heritage. This world is like a giant patchwork quilt, and every part is interesting and unique.

Yes, because Mexico is in America! Duh! Lol

I see nothing wrong with your perspective, in fact I find it a bit refreshing.

There are many have j1 J1-P58 Thier ancestors had to adopt Christianity due ethnic clearance In andulisia I bet that people from arabian Background in Mexico more than Spanish descent

You look arab 💯 I respect everyone where he came from

Right on brother.

Creoles were of pure Euro-ancestry born in the Americas, who often had fewer rights and privileges than those born in Europe living in the Americas. This was one of the components that ignited revolution and wαך for independence of the Colonies in both North and South America. People from New Mexico are not Spanish nor are people from Louisiana, Creoles.

Conspiracy theory. Stop trying to sow division.

@@briancole7024 Conspiracy theory or not, those are the consequences of the government's disparate treatment of people of native descent. I'm not sowing division, I'm explaining why there is division between people of Native American descent from the United States and from the United States and those of Native American descent from south of the border.

"Native American Race" 😂, What race are you, the European Race? 😁

@@hugoramirez6698 What's your point? Do you even have one?

@@MRXYZ1ER Yes, I have a race, the human race, what about you, are you a human or a martian, what about a sayan, are you a sayan boy?

Mine too. Lol. It’s weird that most North Americans don’t believe that indigenous Central American people are Native American. They think the US border created a different race.

@@JFoster310 hahahahaha right? What’s funnier is that Anglos who created all this mess think all “white” peoples are a monolith. Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Greeks and Slavs are some of THE most racially mixed Europeans ever. Not to mentioned the most accustomed to living with other races. My great grandma born in Northern Mexico, looks like your average white Midwestern American. Turns out her mtDNA is Native American (a2a4 - Apache/Navajo). Discovered that her ancestors were Spanish settlers in New Mexico who mixed with local indigenous people. It’s just the offspring kept reproducing with the Spanish side and so there’s more European features than Native, however mtDNA doesn’t change at all when passed from mother to children :)

My mom was from Honduras. She was white and had blue eyes and red hair from her Spanish heritage and she was a tiny 4 foot 11 inches tall from her indigenous heritage. She was the fourth generation born in Honduras. I was born in Nicaragua.

@@JFoster310 Technically speaking, Mexico is a part of North America. I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't know that.

@@gringo3002 Not technically, it its North American country. But the average American is dumb as rocks in the areas of race, nationality, ethnicity, and geography.

Wow, thank you! You always fill me up with the kindest words, thank you for being here

@@nytn It's easy to do. Positive light seeks positive light. Keep up the great research you are connecting and restoring history. I appreciate the space that you've created.

I basically agree with seeing Mexican as indigenous but many that come from the Northen most Mexican states like Chihuahua will often have a good amount more European Spanish or at least a little more European Spanish ancestry than they do Native.

Thanks for listening!

.....without realizing it all comes from Europe in the first place. Oops!

​@StratOCasterMIJ90 No, its cultural and social standing, not racial, its just that if you stand out as obviously mexican but don't speak spanish, it's almost shameful and ignorant of your ancestry. Race and blood is integral but ultimately secondary to language and culture.

I keep telling people Hispanic means property of Spain you isralites need to wake up and read your Bible. Shalom

Don't confuse Latino with Mexican. Latino has nothing to do with Mexican. Mexican is Mexican!

@@BeADad2447 do you believe your an isralite a descendant of issachar? Do you read your Bible?

What did you use to learn Nahuatl?

Awesome bro. My girlfriends moms side of the family is also from Oaxaca. It’s dope to see her learning about it more and more.

I hope you learn some nahuatl, and if you travel to Mexico you can use it.

These southern American tribes are dying out fast, and learning as much about your culture is critical before the only sources of information are dead.

Kwali tonali!

Emblem of the Americas 1798 . Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico from Chinos to Natives the Trans Pacific Slave trade

​@@gew2027So what are you trying to say?

Yep many people in Mexico have more than one native group in their ancestry. Before the 1680 Pueblo Revolt the Spanish were sending New Mexican Pueblo Indians to the silver mines in Mexico as slaves.

@@tbrown4080 Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico from Chinos to Natives the Trans Pacific Slave trade

my 23 is fake

Yes these borders have changed so much. my family used to be in "mexico" then the border changed and it became Texas. They had not moved haha

@@nytnwe didn’t cross the border border crossed us 🤎💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵🏜️

Just like the Middle East and Africa. European Empires almost always carve out borders in straight lines. Look at Mali/Niger/Algeria borders. They're straight lines going through deserts and grass plains. Middle East, Pakistan/India, Yemen all have pretty straight borders which disregards the habitants.

@@nytn can you explain how indigenous people started to become pale. Can you explain why all Latinos have a claim to be indigenous but they some how escaped being put on reservations

@@truthserum6672 reservations happened in america, not mexico. If your family has more indigenous ancestry south of the border, like mine, you wouldnt have that

Blessings to u Ms.Mary 💛

Torres is a Mexican name. My neighbors growing up were Torres, and Mexican-American... In the Midwest, many with Spanish names are originally from other countries, and don't like at all when ignorant people assume they are Mexican.

Mexican is not a race! Just like American is not a race. Mexico is very mix country of people from different parts in the world.

Torres is not Mexican it originated from Spain.

Mexican is a creed not a race. 😂😂😂. You are mestizo.

As you should. I've told my three children to always be proud of their Mexican/Indigenous heritage.

That is so amazing. I have Aztec ancestry. Hello to all my brothers and sisters and cousins:)

Another thing how did the Mexican vaquero learn his trade of being a cowboy, he learned it from his Indian brother's. I'm Yaqui and proud of my indigenous ancestry.

you feel american because everybody in the Americas is American.....from chile and peru to the united states ...america is not a country its a continent and there is many countries in the americas just like there is many countries in europe...no matter what country people are from in europe they are still europeans ...

Anyone belong to ancient civilization would never attribute himself to colonizers unless if he came from countries like black Dominicans or Venezuela or Salvador poor history and civilization

In Mexico, it isn't a mystery to know that most Mexicans descend (partially or fully, depending on the person) from Native Americans. However, most of us identify as mestizo (mixed-race) since race mixing was never prohibited anywhere in Latin America.

WOW, never heard that, but it's something to think about

This is a valid argument- also it promotes discrimination imo

How so?

Ouch. Yet small groups of peoples need to marry out. The fragility of culture can be heartbreaking. Teach your children well. All you can do.

All "tribes" are defined by familial/blood relations, by definition. Everything else is arbitrary and meaningless. "Blood is thicker than water, or "identity"."

Yes they are for the most part. What 5hey do not have is treaty rights with the Federal government . No different than any other immigration group.

All wars are bankers wars . Then the governments use the divide and conquer and sadly its working.

Ever since the era of Bable the devil has only came to causes confusion & destruction to be divided instead of united we are all brothers & sisters... remember how the saying goes the enemy of my enemy is my friend no matter their ethnicity or belief in faith.

Unfortunately true (and well stated). It would be nice if we could stop renewing the subscription and dooming ourselves and future generations to repeating history.

It’s true. Look at all the currently discovered cities buried over time being researched all over the globe. Literally layers of past civilizations near or under others. Amazing Deserts that were oceans or lakes… amazing cycle except things are getting worse over time.

😂🎉😂🎉I guess they never been off their block...

To be Hispanic is a culture. It includes language, customs, foods, sayings, beliefs, traditions, art, a whole world of music. So if someone tells you that they are Latino , then they are Latino, because they most identify with that and their parents did. Be careful telling someone who “they are” because you think you know better. It’s very offensive. They will tell you who they are culturally. That’s why you should not tell a black person from Cuba or a Dominican that they are not Latino. They are culturally. People might look to be a certain thing to you, but they know how they grew up.

@@nz1268 no shit, but I precisely wrote GENETICALLY.

@@nz1268firstly if you get offended if someone call you something that you are not, simply you become as ignorant as that person. Second, people have to educate themselves to understand what is or who is Hispanic or Latino. Hispanic is a person who is born in a country who’s mother language is Spanish, and Latino is someone who comes from a country where their language derivers from Latin. Brazilians are Latinos but they are not Hispanic. Being Latino or Hispanic has nothing to do with your culture or heritage, there is where you are wrong!

@@agaspiderman921 you probably have never had someone do that. It’s offensive. Very offensive. Hope you don’t do something stupid like that. If you do, then you are stupid. White people seem to have a habit of telling other people who they are or are not. It messes with a person’s identity.

And the word coyote, what a colorful word. My uncle and father had a bar named El Coyote. And when I went to Peru, a future good friend called me cholo and I thought he was trying to start a fight with me. I can go on and on.

I am hoping she starts to delve into the most taboo of ALL subjects on this matter... RACELESSNESS... a unified, species wide, core identity founded on PSYCHOLOGICAL, not spiritual, AWARENESS. THAT, to me, is the creme de la creme of CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS. But, i have been wrong many times in my life, so... Their race[s], THEIR god[s]... THAT matters. When WE use their ideas, RELIGIONS (Latin for, "bind [back] to") and languages we THINK like them even if DEEP inside, our TRUE selves, dont want ANY part of "it". And [y]our kids FOLLOW U[S], following them. "It is this ideological abrogation to the authority that constitutes the principal cognitive basis of obedience. If, after all, the world or the situation is as the authority defines it, a certain set of actions follows logically. The relationship between authority and subject, therefore, cannot be viewed as one in which a coercive figure forces action from an unwilling subordinate. Because the subject accepts authority's definition of the situation, action follows willingly." [Obedience To Authority, Stanley Milgram, 1973] "A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters." [Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 24: Games] "The "Aryan Majesty" is evidently the Aryan power or state, political, social and religious. It is simply the Aryan greatness and supremacy. ... For the infidels whom it conquers are creatures..., even, as these make it unprosperous, the annihilation of the sickness was necessary to the existence of the majesty. The existence of one involved the annihilation of the other..... "You hardly utter a sentence of our Romance tongue, without speaking some word which was spoken in the same sense by that ancient people, ten thousand years ago or more, in the mountain-valleys which they first inhabited. You have their idiosyncrasies of thought, the same indelible characteristics of race; for you are their descendants. From them you have your excellencies & your faults, your energy, your vigor of intellect, your philosophical cast of thought, your indomitable resolution, your persistent pursuit of the object you desire to attain; from them the religious leanings & inclinations of your minds; from them your social institutions & relations, & the foundation-stones of your laws, customs, habits; from them all your philosophical & religious doctrines. They were white men, as we are, the superior race in intellect, in manliness, the governing race of the world, the conquering race of all the races. They called themselves Arya, the Aryans, the Warlike, or, some think, the Noble." [Lectures of the Arya, Albert Pike, 1930, Lecture One: The Aryan Race]

There needs to be more awareness of the Nahua and Nahuatl.

So is the recognition of our European roots.

That's true except with the zambos. Indigenous + Black = "Mulatos"

Some Mexicans are mestizos others are just Native American, or just Spanish, I happen to be 50% Spanish/basque so Iam a mestizo

​@kinglisco1379 and some are black, you left that out.

@@LibraYall all Mexicans usually have some % of African from west African slaves, imported into Mexico

@@LibraYall1.5% perhaps are black

He said ONE of the parents was racist

@@tesmith47 Yes, my point was how despicable to adopt a child of color when you are racist…What a horrible environment to be in.

And reactionaries exist across race, class, gender and sexual orientation…just b/c someone may be from a historically marginalized group doesn’t automatically bestow progressive beliefs on that person…

I had a white Mother my Father was Cherokee/ Kickapoo🪶🐻. With a little Italian-Jewish who sailed for Spain in 1656 to Texas.) and 10% Senegal Africa. 😂 So I guess I'm a citizen of the world with a short visit on Earth. 🏴‍☠️ But in my reality the Earth is a prison planet. 🦅

Only two white men could adopt an indigenous child.

What a joke!! I bet you it's idiots like you that claim cultures are ment to be shared?? You have no clue what your ethnicity is!!! You think Puerto Rico is an ethnicity or a group of people???? What kind of education is this??? The hell do they learn up north?

Sorry but the white man's government doesn't represent me. I'm Tigua and we were here before the white man's government and will be here after it collapses.

We identify as mestizo and ouf course embrace our native side. It is part of who we are after all, same as the European and African one

I think the native Americans comes from either the Incas or Olmecas the Olmecas was a civilization before the Mayans and the Aztecs but they trying to say that we come from the native Americans the ones who live in the United States

Probably some descent from the Aztecs. I'm pretty sure the Aztecs didn't use Spanish as their native language.

@@TheJosmanNot many of us identify with any African ancestry, we are mainly Indigenous and European

The fact that Mexican food has gotten so popular in the US is recent history. Growing up in the 1980s I was introducing the majority of my white friends too authentic Mexican food for the first time in their lives.

@@Itzpapalotl. The 80's Reagan era was when Latin immigration rapidly increased. Ask any Baby Boomer and they'll agree. My old HS didn't even have a soccer team until the Late 80's.

Yeah, I had a Navajo supervisor back in the day and one lunch he brought Navajo tacos for everybody. It was pinto bean based and had a thicker bread-like tortilla.

@@MaryLou913 That sounds hella delicious.

Each season in Creole Seasoning is colour coded for the particular "races" that would make one Creole. Take a guess at who the red pepper or cayenne pepper stands for."

@msvonmic__I will always consider myself part native/european those who give me a puzzled look clearly knows nothing of Mexican history..

I have a very intelligent Black college-educated friend and he was in his forties when he went to an American Indian museum when he had a eureka moment that most Latinos were actually American Indians. It seems to be a secret the government guards well, especially through misinformation.

In your journey, did you learn about slavery other than the transatlantic variety? Like more Africans were shipped to the Middle East by the Arab Muslims than ever came to America? That many more died enroute even though the trip was much shorter, because they were treated so brutally? That the males were castrated and women were sex slaves, so there was never much of a black population generated there? That Arab Muslims also kidnapped 1-2 million white Europeans living in coastal areas? That slavery was worldwide throughout history, and people mostly enslaved others of their own race? That more Africans were shipped to the Caribbean and S. America than here? That a minority of whites in the South even owned slaves? That Native Americans owned slaves? The first person to own a slave in America was black?

@@liz6cats280 actually I am aware about Arabs that enslaved Africans and their cruelty towards them as this went on hundreds of years prior to the transatlantic slave trade. As well as the slavery that occurred within the continent amongst Africans and still occurring, this went on again hundred of years prior to the transatlantic slave trade. I'm also aware that during the transatlantic slave trade that Brazil got more slaves than any other country or island. That the Caribbean Islands received more African slaves than the US. That Natives own slaves, specifically the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek tribes. Europeans in this land castrated the men. Women Masters treated Black male slaves the worst and there were breeding farms as well. I'm aware of all these things. My response is specifically to this video where I am expressing intentional neglect by our educational systems, specifically Milwaukee Public Schools because this is where I live, that we weren't educated about anything but selective U S. History. It is our jobs as adults to educate ourselves about our history and others to help reduce our own ignorance and prejudices.

@@spy_b0t.743 we are not taught about anything other than U S history in public schools and even that is selective. So as adults, it is our responsibility to educate ourselves.

Wow, thank you! You always give me such great ideas though 😅😅😅

So true

That's not true "mexica" is what the aztecs called themselves. The spanish called that region "Virreinato de Nueva España"

Do you know how much of Mexico is of Celt-Iberian descent?! No one has a clue, but it’s **most** of us.

Hello, I am Black, Italian, Portuguese and Native American

Latin/Latino is the language spoken by the Romans. It's not a "Side" and not your heritage. Maybe you mean Latin American but Latin American is not a Race so look for a better definition.

Every person on earth is mixed , except the Africans from africa. Mexicans are different mixtures, of natives & Europeans. There are different tribes of natives Americans in Mexico,not just Aztec. During the European invasion different kinds of Europeans arrived not just the Spanish or English. So Mexicans are an Admixture of Indians and European. We are not exactly a 50/50 mix. We can have 80/20 mix , I'm 70 % native American ,20% Spanish, and 10% a few other different peoples.

@@Erik-ct6ug amen! thanks for this tidbit of truth!

Your Mom was Sephardic Jews, all from Portugal /Spain what was Iberia. You said African only because of the blackness of the Jews of Portugal and not because an African slave was captured in Ghana. If you want know your mother’s history read this book, Jews and Muslim in British Colonial America. For most Americans, the story of their nation’s origins seems safe, reliable and comforting. We were taught from elementary school that the United States was created by a group of brave, white Christians drawn largely from England who ventured to these shores in search of religious freedom and the opportunity to fulfill their own destiny. Recent revisions to this idealized and idyllic narrative have never seriously questioned its basic tenets. So although we now recognize some of the contributions made by Africans to America’s success and feel perhaps a heightened sense of regret, remorse and even guilt over the destruction of American native cultures, we never have had much reason to doubt the basic premise of the story. Our founding mothers and fathers were white, Christian and British. In this work, we present a series of Colonial documents, contemporary firsthand accounts, records, portraits, family genealogies and ethnic DNA test results which fundamentally challenge the national storyline depicting America’s first settlers as white, British and Christian. We postulate that many of the initial colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Usually arriving as crypto-Jews with their religious adherence disguised, and crypto-Muslims, these immigrants served in prominent economic, political, financial and social positions in all of the original colonies. The evidence in support of this radical new narrative begins with an examination of the British colonial companies organized in England to bring settlers to North America and exploit the natural riches believed to be there. Of course, both Spain and France had already made forays into North America, founding St. Augustine and exploring parts of the coastline as far north as Newfoundland, though their activities as foreign powers are given short shrift in our Anglo-centric version of the birth of America. What is even less frequently mentioned regarding these Spanish and French settlements and voyages is that many of the colonists and sailors were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish descent. Several of those aboard Christopher Columbus’s first voyage in 1492 and famously even Columbus (Colon) himself were of Jewish ancestry. They were Jews or crypto-Jews. One historian of Inquisitional Spain and biographer of Christopher Columbus, Simon Wiesenthal, notes that “throughout the sixteenth century the movement of the Marranos to the New World had continued,” and that “after the expulsion of the Jews and flight of the Marrano element, it was the turn of the Moriscos to serve as scapegoats for the ills of society.” The same writer estimates that, all told, Spain lost one and one-half million people as a consequence of the “purification” of its population of Jews and Moors. “Many occupations were virtually abandoned,” he writes. “Trade, the crafts, and the sciences languished. Moreover, since these branches of endeavor had been the domain of Jews and Moriscos, they had become in themselves suspect. Spaniards had to be extremely careful about entering any of these fields.... Spanish life as a whole was the worse for these injustices.... Spain was swamped with fortune hunters from all parts of Europe ... but they could not revive the Spanish economy. Just as the irrigation canals dug by the Moors in Andalusia were allowed to silt up, so the very channels on which the country’s health depended fell into neglect.” We document that Spain’s loss was Britain’s gain. Beginning with the initial planning, organization and promotion of the first British colonial efforts, Sephardic Jews and Muslim Moors were present as navigators, ship captains, sailors, metallurgists, cartographers, financiers and colonists. Among these we find Joachim Ganz, Simon Ferdinando, Walter Raleigh, John Hawkins, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Hakluyt Sr. and Jr., Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher and Abraham Ortelius. The first and second British colonies in North America, Virginia and Massachusetts were provisioned, funded and peopled by persons of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish descent. Current genetic genealogical studies of the Appalachian descendants of these early colonists demonstrate that they carried DNA haplotypes (male or female lineages) and genes from Sephardic, Ottoman and North African founders. Further, these early North American colonists often bore straightforwardly Jewish and Muslim surnames. Attested are Allee, Aleef, Sarazin, Moises, Bagsell, Haggara, Ocosand and even Saladin. Indeed, given the patently non-Christian backgrounds of so many settlers up and down the Atlantic coastline of the American colonies, it becomes difficult to ignore the significant declarations of religious tolerance inscribed in the U.S. Constitution. Even (and particularly) New York, founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam, was heavily peopled by Sephardic Jews and Muslim Moors. The presence of persons from these ethnic affiliations on the governing boards of the Dutch West and East India Companies is no accident. They included Jonathan Coen (Cohen) and Cornelius Speelman (another classic Jewish name). Other New Amsterdam, and later New York, residents were Jacob Abrahamsen and Denys Isacksen. We present contemporaneous testimony suggesting that even the leading Knickerbocker families of the New York colony -the van Cortlandts, Philipses, van Rensselaers, De La Nos and De Lanceys - were of Sephardic ancestry. This fresh look at Colonial American genealogies and settler lists presents for the first time in one source the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish origins and meaning of more than 5,000 surnames, the vast majority of them widely assumed before to be sturdy British family names of ancient bearing. Many of our name etymologies plainly contradict the standard reference works. The decipherment of surname history is an involved subject, one that can extend over centuries of transformation in several countries and require knowledge of a multitude of languages. For instance, in order to understand the sea change suffered by the ancient Jewish name Phoebus to English Phillips (and Scottish Forbes and Frobisher), with stages along the way as Pharabas and Ferebee and Furby, one must have an appreciation for the synthesizing religions of the Roman Empire, including the Cult of Mithras and naming practices of Greek-speaking congregations of Jews, as well as conversion of Berber populations to Judaism, conquest of Spain by Berber armies in 710 and subsequent development of Judeo-Arab culture, not to mention the medieval French, Norman, Anglo-Saxon and Scottish linguistic, orthographic and social filters the surname passed through until it became enshrined in modern times as “good ole English” Phillips.

🤣😂 they couldn’t afford it

Ok so speak one of those languages then

The Irish were detribalized😅😅😅😅

They're from Africa nobody cares

There's no such thing as African Americans copper colored people in America are indigenous to America we built this country

@@Richard-gp5tg not the same condition. You were still white and on the bottom of list of importance European intelligence when you came to America. Do your research. Not the same thing.You weren't considered less than a man or woman when you came in through Ellis Island as immigrants or when ever.

I am grateful to God that we as Foundational Black Americans are detribalized it is currently an unuseful and hateful act

"America" is named after Italian map-maker Amerigo Vespucci. He was an Immigrant colonizer. Lost, like all them he didn't know where he was. Indigenous south of the border seem to assign this value to the word "American" I don't quite understand. Why would you care if US recognized you or not? It wouldn't help you. Your land claims are down there in your native area. The US has no authority to recognize you. You would legally petition the government that colonized you. You want to force your own gov to deal with you and force them to formally, legally "recognize" you as the native indigenous people of THAT country. Then you can pursue remedies and reparations for say, your own gov allowing Mayorkas to come in an put immigrant trails and camps right through your tribal land ruining crops, water and bringing their violence and drugs. The tribal chiefs of Darien Gap went to Biden to get stopped and got nothing. US has no formal relations with them. The Embera say Panama and Columbia don't help them. That's where their problem lies, with those governments, not America.

@@redpaint8199 Just making a semantic argument. The injustices that the federal government has committed against you all --from the genocide and displacement of tribes (before and during Jackson's administration) to all of the environmental racism you've endured... and violence... the ongoing b.s. is abhorrent. It's wrong.

Thank you for being here with us and sharing some of your story! Im so glad you are able to at least put a name to some of the heritage. I feel a lot of the same ways as you do, belonging to lots of peoples, but not really to anyone at the same time. The American way I guess :)

There are Spanish Creoles in Louisiana, distinct from the French Creoles.

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Remember we were all part of new Spain. The natives were allowed to keep their culture and traditions just as in what is now currently Mexico. Alfonso Borrego is a descendant of Geronimo and goes out and explains the difference between Anglo and Hispanic culture and treatment of natives

It’s an irony that the Mexicans were so harsh with the Apache and vice-versa-Yet, Mexicans have a lot of indigenous blood.

@@richlisola1not really when you learn that Apache refers a lot of different tribes, clans, bands, and peoples. Even the dialects of apache are different with whom they interacted with daily, (western apache, eastern apache, etc.) Also Mexicans (nationality) and Apache (tribal identities) are similar but not the same. The nuance is not in similarities but slight differences, (language, culture, religion, spirituality, location, etc.) It's not surprising to me as White Mountain Apache, that Mexicans and some of my people and other apache tribes fought. Do you understand Apache culture from those times?

@@ambrosewilliams1897 I was being somewhat purposely obtuse. To mock the notion that shared blood is all that’s needed to make peace. A silly modern notion. I’m with you. I know why the Apache and the Mexicans hated one another. -Name me an Apache band that didn’t loathe the Mexicans for all the ghastly crimes committed by the Mexicans amidst their efforts to settle the Southwest? The Mexicans managed to out Spanish the Spanish in their ruthless killing of the Apache. Whatever likenesses one gleans between the Apache and the Mexicans. Tell it to Geronimo’s children. Geronimo, who died dreaming of killing Mexicans. And rightfully so.

That's awesome!

No European dna whatever? Mine was 47/51 Iberian and indigenous

@@Itzpapalotl. yes I am half white . I am of mixed race. I am a big mix of things. I have from my father’s side scandinavian, Irish, welsch and Scottish dna. From my mother’s side I have Indigenous Amazonian, Mesoamérican and andean some Nigerian and North African. No Iberian came up. Even though my mom says her father’s father was Spaniard. I don’t really know but I didn’t get any of it.

​@@Itzpapalotl.they said no Spanish DNA.

Could your mother's father have Spanish Moorish roots? ​@@Untilsheputherfootdown

Yeah? Well no one, nor the state has the time to examine your entire pedigree is. I’m Mexican American by nationality… but I am half Spaniard, and Half Native American with a little Italian, Central African, Berber and Latvian thrown in there. I’m gonna check what I predominantly am. I can’t claim those other ones cause I’ve never grew up as any of them, nor have any direct links to them other than a few ancestors. You are half European, half Spanish. Period. Accept it. Jesus Christ.

​@thearyamehrrYES ~ we need to check White box cuz us Mexican predominately White. f6886

@@colinchampollion4420 no, it’s just the way the system is set up. This system you’re talking about is Anglo American and it’s how they keep track of demographics. In our realm, even in Spain, these boxes and way of thinking are non existent. But since we’re in USA, the European side is what dominates and is what’s referred to FIRST before anything. But in our case as Hispanic Americans, we can check either or. White or Native American or “other” - and you wouldn’t be wrong. All these terms, people know jack about. Let me help you. “White” is an Anglo/Anglo American invention and it used to mean of English/Germanic descent until recent when USA decided it to mean or include All other Europeans. “Hispanic” is derived from “Hispania” which was the Roman name for Spain and is a culture that originated and comes from Spain. Spaniards are Hispanics. European Hispanic. “Hispanic American” refers to those who have Spanish ANCESTRY in the Americas. In other contexts “Hispanic” refers to the Spanish and “American” refers to the Amerindian/Indigenous. It’s a blending of both worlds and cultures, so it’s not wrong to use that term either. “Latino” or “Latin American” is a French invention. It’s simply a linguistic nomenclature. We’re called Latinos because we speak a Latin language and descend from Latin people (in this case Spain and Portugal). Latin America has evolved to indicate a geographic-linguistic region and so it’s not bad to identify with that term either. You can call yourself Hispanic, Hispano, Hispanoamericano, Hispanic American, Amerindian, Latino, Latin American, Latin if you want and you wouldn’t be wrong. It’s just contextual preference. I prefer Hispanoamericano, Hispanic American, Mestizo. Because it refers to both my heritages. Hispanic refers to Spain, just like “Slavic” may refer to Russia, Belarus, Yugoslavia, etc. just like how Celtic refers to Irish, Welsh, Scottish… just like Germanic refers to Germany, Norway, Dutch, Austrian - just like Iranic refers to Kurds, Iranian, Afghans, etc… Hispanic is in the same boat as All those.

Eight times out of ten Mexicans and Hispanics in general the mixed ones be it Mestizos, Pardos, Zambos, Castizos, Indo Mestizos, Harnizos, Melungeons, Mulattoes, etc see themselves as better then pure blooded Indios and pure blooded Negroes as well as pure blooded East Asians yeah.

Barely

What indigenous ways of life do you connect with Jorge(George)?

To connect you need to actively practice. Just like Africans you have a singular tribe that you can trace your genetic history back to. That tribe has its own concept of life and rituals. That’s connecting.

No they don't!! They look down on indigenous looking people were as if ur light skin its better so stop the cap

I did! No excuses on my part.

I didnt catch it even 😂

I caught it and thought everything I knew was false. Thanks for bringing it up as well.

@asturiasceltic3183 this has me actually laughing out loud :D

I agree Criollos were born in the Latin American country itself. Peninsulares were born and raised from Spain

From the Mexica empire.

Indigenous are the African people that were already in North America 8,000-10,000 years because the slave trade..some can't accept the fact Africans were already here.. since Africans are the first people on earth how the hell are native Americans the first people 😂😂😂😂😂.

Most of us are mixed-race, tho.

​@@TheJosmanin Canada and USA you are considered native American if you are 1/4 or more, if you were more than a 1/4 you weren't allowed to vote.

@@MissCleo24 That's because the US system is designed to preserve whiteness. In the rest of the Americas (and even other regions of the world like South Africa) mixed-identities are allowed to exist. In the US, you're forced to ditch one part of your ancestry and culture to fit into a box (black, white, native, asian). In Latin America, you can be mixed and embrace a mixed identity. And unlike the US, everyone is allowed to vote regardless of race.

I learned a lot!