So I understand over time. Spanish people start having kids with native Americans. Eventually Mexicans grew tired of the Spanish rule and didn’t want it anymore. Now when I go to Mexico. I understand people call themselves Mexicans. But when I was there In puerto Vallarta I encountered 2 men who spoke Spanish but also a Native American language. Nahuatl. They referred to themselves as different people. I can’t remember the name. My Mexican cousin referred to them as different people. I thought abt it and I just find it weird that as a Mexican you share the same blood yet you identify as a different nationality or ethnicity. I’ve heard my grandma use the word Huicholes. Shes Mexican as well.
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I went to a mission once where there is a mural on the wall. On one side it has Indians/Natives entering the mission wearing traditional native clothes and then on the other side of the mural they are exiting the mission wearing European garb with crosses and rosaries around their necks.
It’s a beautiful but sad thing but it unapologetically also drives home the point that the native people and much of their culture is alive and well in Latin America.
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