Should mexicans be considered to be native americans?
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That is an insult to Native Americans!
No, because they are from Mexico, not of native US heritage.
THEY ARE THE REAL NATIVE AMERICANS BUT SMARTER. Mexicans built piramids, Indians built tee pees.
You've got to be kidding. Really, you are, right?
mexicans are not native americans. They are a deiifeent breed of americans. you should really read a history book. It is a bit complated to explain. If you think you are trying to rationalize the illegal immigrant situation.don't.
Not if they weren't born here, no.
I think they are more native than the other Americans except the so called Red Indians, since they were living in that country long before all the present American's forefathers settled down there from England, France, Germany etc.
USA came into being only after 1492.
NO they should be considered MEXICANS get it from MEXICO (mi Casa not u f-ing casa)
No because they were not part of America at all. so they shouldnt be considered native Americans because they are from Mexico/
I don't think so.
Maybe you should ask some American Indians how that worked out for them.
10-15% of Mexicans are full Native American 60- 70% are Mestizo a mixture of European and Native American Ethnic Europeans make up 10-20%
The oldest city that is a state capitol is Santa Fe New Mexico founded in 1610
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nevada and California were once part of Mexico
Mexico is part of Norte Americano
So yes you could argue that yes
I do not see what it has to do with the current immigration debate; since Native Americans from other parts of the Americas do not have a separate immigration status
No,because Mexican´s are of Spanish,European decent. The only Native Americans are those of Indian decent.
no they should be considered native mexicans
No because there not
Insulting my Native American people may be funny to you, but not us. Here's how it's been fairing for Mexicans.
The race card isn't working as well as it should, so Plan B is in effect: Using unsubstantiated claims and rewrite history to supercede U.S. Law .
Summermoon -
"Actually American Indians despise being called Native Americans so please watch your mouth next time."
That is not true. As a matter of fact many natives refer to themselves as "native" more than American Indian, and there is much debate in the native community over the terms. I prefer to identify my ethnicity by tribal name, neither term is offensive to me. A warning to watch one's mouth over the usage of Native American is unnecessary, since the term "Native American" is not racist.
"They also aren't exclusive to the US and the Indians that wandered the Southwest were and are Mexican Indians."
The native tribes that wandered and settled in the southwest were not Mexican Indians. Mexico only occupied the southwest for 29 years from 1821-1850. Aztecs and Toltec cultures, language, and beliefs are quite different from the (U.S.) southwestern tribes - (i.e. Pueblo tribes, Apache, Commanche, Shoshone and many others active and extinct). To say that modern day Mexican mestizos and Mexican Indians are one and the same as the native tribes of the U.S. is nothing more than an arrogant claim to supercede present-day immigration laws.
"Apache Indians are intermixed with Mexicans. Geronimo warned his people about the encroachment of the US on his people so he hated white men. He lived in what is present day Arizona. It was Mexico then btw. So Geronimo was Mexican. He didn't kill Mexicans he killed Spaniards. Since he was born in 1829 it is pretty clear he was born in Mexico not the US, Arizona was not a state of the US nor a territory till 1912."
Apache were not intermixed with the non-existant Mexicans pre-colonialism, and the Apache bands warred with the Mexicans after 1821, and also offered safe passage to the U.S. soldiers during the Mexican-American war. Geronimo fought against the Mexicans and the United States to protect his tribal lands. Geronimo was NOT a Mexican, and would have taken offense to that claim. The new Arizona Territory, consisting of the western half of New Mexico Territory was declared in Washington, D.C. on February 24, 1863.
"...all of these countries are just like the US part of North America. So some of the folks here need to learn geography before they argue that the Indians native to Mexico are not North American, because they most certainly are."
I think you know better than this. American is a nationality, exclusive to the USA. The fact that the continent is named NORTH America is irrelavent. Mexicans are claiming indigenous rights to the United States of America, which is an unsubstantiated and disproven claim. To argue that Mexicans are American, is as rediculous as saying that Brazilians are Colombian, South Africans are Egyptian, or French are Irish.
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Added: Usually mixed breeds or pretendians like to project their insecurities on full blooded natives like me. I get that all of the time, strangers thinking they know more about my blood, than I do. I feel sorry for them. Since you like to make losing bets, you are more than welcome to come play at my tribe's casinos.
Also, as an American citizen, I have enjoyed the freedom for decades to live in various cities and states around the U.S. Living on the reservation is an option, and hence no feeling of being "walled" on a reservation.
Everything in my answer above is fact, not opinion. You can try to word around the facts all that you want to suit your opinion. It's not going to change the facts that Mexicans are the 500 year old descendents of Spaniards, they are not American Indians, and that Geronimo lived on Apache tribal lands, and did not live by Mexican law, identify himself as Mexican, fought to protect HIS land, that belonged to HIS people, the Apache.
Lazywolf - I am not talking trash about Mexican Indians I am tired of Mexicans claiming American Indian tribal lands, to substantiate their breaking of U.S. immigration laws.
I wasn't in a Mel Gibson movie, and I could care less if you think I am impersonating or not. It's called cultural pride, and I am not going to sit back and allow the mesitzos of your country, lie about the history of mine.
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Full Blooded Lakota Sioux, Red Pride.
No they are Mexicans which are really from Spain.
no, that is a different indians, mexico had their own indians like America did. no connection. mexico wants to set claims on this land after all these years. where was they when the Native Americans needed them when they was being rounded up and moved around? i wish they would stop referring them self's to the American Indians and the blacks. there is no connection what so ever.
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