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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Native American encompasses native people across both continents. Mexico and the US and Canada today are each very different cultures with different attitudes and histories towards their native peoples, but even within North America, the native americans were divided into a number of different cultures and groups, some of which were very different from each other and probably would not have liked being lumped together like that.
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