Absolutely correct. They have every right to be welcome here. Our ancestors didn't have a border and ranged back and forth over the future "border". Every native band in existence at one time or other lived much further north or much further south, throughout history, whether recorded or unrecorded.
I've met an elder couple that are, indigenous people from, near the boarder to Belize. They didn't speak Spanish. They spoke their natural indigenous language and, a very little english. They couldn't read english very well. The man asked me to, read a label out loud to him. He understood english from hearing it, more then he could, reading it. So I read the food item label, to them. And, it was the product they were looking for. He thanked me, in his first language, then again, in english. He too said, they are not Mexican I can not remember, what clan he said, they came from.
Da'an'zho 100 100% native american apache of mexico is me and we are not asian we are not white were indigenous native americans of the americas and that will NEVER CHANGE 💯🕵🏾♀️👏🏾💥🤜🏾🤛🏾😉 and Mexicans their all native american we all need to forgive our enemies they can't label when they dont even know their own roots
I’m Chiricahua Apache and my family registered themselves as Latino instead of native in the census. I’m trying to reclaim our heritage and so are so many of my other family members.
@Raccon_Detective.Agree. At least the Euro-centrists don't want anything to do with or have any kind of affiliation with Natives but the Afro-centrists are the ones trying to colonize my history, culture, heritage
Very cool. Use the term american indian. That is the war crime term they used. If you ever take the republic to court you have no sovereignty using the term native american. Trust. Good day
I just done a DNA test and found out I’m 95% indigenous to Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru! I was told by my family and strangers I probably have European or Asian blood, I was always confused by my identity felt like I didn’t belong anywhere but nope it was just my indigenous features all along I’m so proud of them🤎
Separate yourself from the protesters. The war crime is on american indian. We are tribal people by law of custom not indigenous. Trust me native and indigenous is a new term. The english and spanish common amd civils laws fear greek terms like tribal.
Why don't you embrace your Spaniard heritage who built your modern day civilization. With The other civilization you would still be living in the stone age.
@@javiervega1065 because the Spaniards weren't that great when it came to fighting. Even the Germans in the 1930s wrote books about Spaniards being at the bottom of the European hierarchy
@Carlinisalive yes we are indigenous. We were here before this land was called "america". My grandma always referred to "mexicans" as "our cousins" because we were all living on this land together as a community before the white man came
I’m mestiza my dad is an Italian who’s family immigrated to Mexico in the 60s/50s and my mom is hñähñu chichimeca/ Otomi I’ve always been more close to my indigenous roots because I grew up with my moms family I’m very proud to say I’m Native American, but it’s really sad seeing how growing up in Latin America most mestizos or full indigenous people don’t claim their indigenous heritage they view indigenous people as as a minority I remember my mom making me wear our traditional clothing to school and braids and the kids would call me “India” but I learned to stand up for myself and say “si si soy y que 🪶💯” regarding my skin color which is quite pale in comparison to my mothers my name, my culture, my traditions, That I am the closest too is indigenous American 🪶🪶
Everyone who refer to themselves as Mestizo are actually more indigenous, but don"t want to be because they are brained washed. Take pride in your native heritage. Your dad is a true Latino as the French, Hispanics, Romanians. I Notice the Chinese went to school keeping their traditions and eating their food at school. Teach your children the same.
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dpSoy mestizo mi piel es blanca y tengo ascendencia africana. Eliminar que somos mestizos es una tontería, además en mi país te llaman indigena si tenés un aspecto indigena aunque tengas algo de mestizaje.
I work for a handicraft company that sells products from all over the world. Right now a lot of branches are showing off whatever was made in Latin America on social media with captions claiming "Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!" ...Problem is, half of the Latin American products they're associating with "Hispanic" are actually made by indigenous peoples - Highland Maya women from Guatemala, Quechua and Aymara-speaking people from Peru, and Kichwa-speaking people from Ecuador. It's really annoying.
you're absolutely right. Probably is something related to the crazy 'political correctness' that is ruining US and western countries, they have this urge to label and define anything and anyone, but trying to be correct they reveal how arrogant they are
Respect. I remember when I was asked to interpret for one of my partners (I worked in Law Enforcement). The guy that was being arrested looked at me at but confused. I asked him, if he was Mexican, he said, “Yes.” Then I asked if my Spanish was confusing (I speak proper/formal Spanish-I’m Salvadoran). The suspect told me Spanish wasn’t his first language and he struggles sometimes to understand. He said he was from Oaxaca. Anyway, since my 30th birthday, I’ve been identifying as American Indian. This lady reminds me of my grandma. Embrace your roots! 🎉
We natives from tribes that know our roots are not mexican, latino, "indian", or hispanic, or chicano... us natives should know north and south america is our land
I’m nicaraguan-american and my great grandma was a pure nawat nicarao (nahua) native. She had red skin, like a native american, and its documented in the chronicles of conquistadors francisco cordoba and gil gonzalez davila describing the nawat nicarao people as “rojos” and their children "rojitos" (reds/little reds in spanish). I have 40% native american on my dna test (60% european), proud of my nahua heritage 💪🇳🇮
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dp my grandpa and great grandparents were from a nicarao town in rivas called "nahuapan" (originally was nahuacalpan before it was shortened). Older generations of his family spoke nawat but the language died with them in the late 1800s, around the same time that nawat went extinct in nicaragua. The language may be dead, but like you said as long as the heritage is embraced, the pride in oneself lasts forever. Thank you friend 🙏
The Nicarao are a subgroup of the Pipils which descend from the Toltecs. Salvadorians and Nicaraguans are descendants of Toltecs, bless you brother from your Salvadorian brethren 🇸🇻🤝🇳🇮
No one has red skin, unless they're sunburned or paint themselves. It's more likely that these chronicles were written with some poetic license. Either the people that they were describing painted themselves red as a form of intimidation like war paint or they may have been so war like that "red" was used to describe them. Like a bull when it see red or when a person "sees" red when they are in a rage. History is written by the winners and they don't always tell that history truthfully. I wouldn't those DNA tests too seriously. There have been examples of identical twins taking them and getting completely different results.
It is sad that Native Americans are the ones having the hardest time moving from one country to another within the Americas. The borders made by others stop us, and allow everybody else through.
Don't forget, we are also "illegals" even though our ancestors have been living here for so long before European colonization. If anything, Europeans and whites should be considered illegal immigrants and deported back! See how they like it!
The Jay treaty provides for freedom of movement between Indeginious peoples of Canada and the United States . This treaty should be extended to Mexico and beyond for all indeginious Americans
mexicans are not native. they are the spanish and latin derives from the roman empire. native americans are obviously are from this land before any of these groups but why are we talking about firsts all the time... is it cause nationalists are all trying to play a game... yeh.
Hello. I come from a super molested land where your ancestors have come from across the pacific ocean. We share the same color and blood, so it was a heartfelt experience to go along your narrative as our blindness has changed us to hide and be ashamed of ourselves. Your words are uplifting and put me in a sense of calm. Thank you.
Very smart lady 😘her English is perfect.She’s very proud of her heritage, my respects 🙏 I am very indigenous looking but just don’t think about it,I just go with the flow.
I am Mexican but also Native American from Mexico but I don`t know my native side or culture but I can relate with Odilia 100% and I stand with her in what she has said Blessing my Amiga.
You're a Beautiful Soul ❣️I can relate with you on many levels . You are a survivor 🌹 and so am I . Keep doing a tremendous job. Spread Love to the children. People need to look on the inside ,the heart❣️One day we will all be free learning to love we'll find a way one day . God Bless you and your family.
This video is specifically for people within what is now Latin America who are connected Indigenous people, not Latinos in general btw. She’s solely speaking for the Indigenous community.
Latin comes from Italy and Hispanic is one of the regions of the Roman/Rome divisions. Central to South America is not Latin which is suitable for American territory and that is due to colonialism, it is inappropriate to be called Latin America.
@@raflykato1789Hispanic is someone speaks Spanish, Latino is someone from Latin America. Regardless of your history lesson that’s what it is now. But I agree with with the original comment, if an indigenous person never assimilated to Latino/Hispanic culture then they are not Latino/Hispanic
@@LatAm13 So everyone who speaks English should be called "Germanics" since English is a German-based language? Hispanic/Latino are more than what you're describing - they're purposeful terms of erasure and cultural genocide. My Nahua family embraces and includes - they don't divide and exclude. Only Italians are Latinos and Spanish are Hispanic.
Latin is an Indo-European language that originated in the Latium region of central Italy. It was the language of ancient Rome and was used throughout the Roman Empire for communication, administration, and literature.
I was separated from my family and raised white, I am working to reclaim my indigenous identity. I am so proud of my culture and my people and I just can’t simply leave that behind. It’s in my blood. It’s in my DNA. We should all be so proud. I don’t have a single drop of Spanish blood and that means resistance. We did not bow. I love this woman.
You were separated from your family and raised European American. Are you working to reclaim your brown identity? If colors are not good enough for one group, then they are not good enough for any. Racism hurts.
I am just an indigenous as well and didn't learn so much about my origin language. All I can acknowledge I come from otomi . I am being discriminated all the time .
Don"t worry about it! Just because you can"t speak the language or know your traditions your still native. Blacks don"t know anything about their tribe but that dosen"t stop them to indentify as African because they are.!
So relatable. My grandma speaks Nawakayáno, and I grew up speaking it and still using it to this day. Although I have spanish speaking family who don't know anything about our culture and language, I still feel somewhat discriminated. My grandma said we are Yanoshinenatsóte. Although I speak Spanish and English. I wouldn't want to refer to myself as Latino or Hispanic.
I was one of those native southern children who was used in the 80s to test mental health drugs. They had me on as many as 6 at a time for years. They took advantage of my mother's ignorance and wrecked my childhood.
I’m literally half and half (Spaniard and Native American). I identify as Hispanic American culturally, Mexican American by nationality. I claim Hispanic because half of me is Spaniard and I can’t change that. I’ve traced my lineages back to the Fatherland. My other half is Native American… it is what it is.
@@Randive correct. I’ve done DNA tests and collaborated with my DNA matches to confirm relatives and ancestors and thanks to the Catholic Church’s phenomenal record keeping throughout the Spanish Empire… I’ve been able to trace my lineages as far back as the 1100s to 1200s. None of my indigenous ancestors were “graped” or forced into anything. I’ve found marriage records showing my Spanish ancestors happily married with full blown Mestizo families. My “mestizo” racial make up has been in tact since the 1500s.
American implies born in the US so you’re not doing much to represent your indigenous heritage. People born in the US of Spanish descent are “Hispanic American” so how are you differentiating yourself? Unless you’re straight indigenous most mexicans are mixed indigenous & European.
The issue is that Native tribes who are federally recognized in the United States have ancestral homelands with separate and distinct languages, cultures and cermonies and sovereignty on their reservation lands accoding to treaties with the U.S. government. When Indigenous people migrate today and move north as individuals onto other Native lands, they can't join a different tribal nation. Their whole tribe would have to move together and buy land and establish themselves as a tribe and request recognition from the U.S govt. Individual Indigenous people from Mexico and South America don't have to be called Latino or Hispanic but if they aren't enrolled in a federally recognized tribe and can't prove descent from a federally recognized tribe in the U.S- then they are a displaced Indigenous person. They don't have rights other than any other group of migrants. People move from Mexico to Chicago and start claiming this is their new homelands which is wrong. There were several tribes who were removed from Illinois in 1832 who are still fighting to re-establish their connections to Illinois. Whe Indigenous people do this it's lateral violence and they're behaving like settler-colonials. They don't have rights to new lands that don't belong to them. There is no mystical wandering Indigenous Individual person or family that has the same status as tribes who have been living in the U.S. and who have negotiated treaties. Indigenous Mexicans come north and want jobs in Native communities but they don't understand anything about the trbes in that area, they don't speak the language and are not trained as someone who can perform ceremonies. You can't bring traditions from 5,000 miles away and expect to replace the Indigenous people who have always lived in the area. That is colonization whether you call yourself Indigenous or not.
Tribes here don't like and even object to state-recognized "tribes", much less a group coming from outside US borders attempting to get US federal recognition. Native Americans are the only racial group mentioned in the US constitution. People don't realize the formal ties of Native Americans and the US. Most tribes had treaties or agreements with other European nations even before the US was born. They later also signed with the US, who were newbies as far as the Native nations were concerned. Some Native American tribes up here had formal agreements with Spain too but chose to sign with the Americans later. I know, ouch, Spain recognized some tribes up here at one time. But that's what they need to do, get recognized by the nation where their tribe is located. Doesn't make any sense for the US to recognize them and that would be stepping on the toes of Mexican, Central and South American governments. Sounds like they want an excuse for uncontrolled immigration, which is not a pressing issue for tribes who have been here for centuries and have no need to go any place else as a tribe.
I know her, never met her, but I know her. I, also lived with my Grandparents and Great Grama, I was born in Arizona, but I knew I was Native. My Dad's side is Yaqui, they never called us children, they called us bookis, Yaqui for young ones. Were very true to the Day of the Dead. I was just Mexican for a long time. Started school, went to Hispanic,Latina, Mexican American,Chicana, I like Chicana bc of the movement. Chicanos r kinda like the new tribe of the South West. My Mom's family is Huachelo from Jalisco. This is where I get a lot of Mexican history, my Tata (grandpa), was full Huachelo. They used to talk to me a lot about the Natives. The first time I went to Mexico with my grandparents, my Tata said, holding earth in his hand, "this is the earth of our seed, there is no other beginning and no end". He took us to the river where his tribe still washed outside. I didn't realize their lessons, till I got older. I'm no spring chicken. I identified as Native for the first time on the last census. It felt right.
Greetings from India. I'm doing some research on the percentage of Native Americans in the USA and I was also quite intrigued by the fact that Native American people coming into the US from Latin America are not considered native in the US. The European rulers of the USA have put you all into a spiral of ethnicities, languages, nationalities and what not so that you all don't get a peek at the big picture. :D When I heard you speak on this video, I understood why it is that difficult for ordinary Native Americans from Mexico, Central and South America to get that big picture. Just in case you're wondering what on earth is that "big picture" I'm referring to, then here's what I meant - going by the US classification of a Native American, even people who consider themselves Mestizos can be Native American. You'd know it better than me that there are scores of federally accepted Native Americans with varying percentages of European blood flowing in their veins. Therefore, all of you Mestizos and pure Native Americans based in the USA and originating in Mexico, Central America and South America could easily comprise at least two-thirds of the "Latino" population in the US. That would be in the range of 20% of the US population and that's a massive vote base. Yes, the beautiful things you spoke about your native culture is extremely important for your identity and individuality but you need to get your priorities right as a community - the Native American community. Look at the African-American or for that matter, the composite white or Caucasian community. I feel your top priority is the recognition of the native American community in the US originating in Mexico, Central America and South America as Native Americans. If the laws on date appear to be a stiff barrier on the way to fulfill this priority then you need your own folks to set aside every other priority behind this one and get the message across loud and clear to those who come asking for your votes in both the federal and state level elections as well as your local county level elections. I come from a country where our native traditions have helped us survive nearly fourteen centuries of unrelenting invasions first by Islamic sultanates and then by the same European colonial imperialists and we know a thing or two about how they operate. :D They follow a simple principle - divide and rule! They played on our diversity and now they are playing on yours. So, get every Native American on board and get that recognition first. Everything else will follow thereafter.
Thanks for your words of wisdom and support for my people (full native american) When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I remember hearing stories from Native elders and their thoughts on the mexicans/hispanics and they used to say a day is gonna come where quite a few of them are going to rediscover who they are as Native/indigenous people. Even today, I can say I'm seeing more mexicans embracing their indigenous heritage. But yes that divide and conquer strategy is what they use. But it won't last long. Your country is a perfect example of being brutally colonized by the British Empire to being an independent nation, a very powerful world power on top of that. Blessings to yours.
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 Thank you for your kind and respectful words. 🙏 I feel you need to get over this "regional" barrier coming in the way of Native American unity. I would take a leaf out of the Caucasian American and the African American handbook of unity. These groups are as varied in regional terms as you are. So let's say an African American person's ancestors came from Senegal or Guinea in West Africa and another African American person's ancestors came from Tanzania or Mozambique in southeastern Africa. These two regions are separated by as much distance as Honduras and Paraguay but they'll never let that regional barrier come in the way of African American unity, and with good reason. Here, in the United States, a non-African person would never look at both these individuals as separate entities from regions that are thousands of miles apart. They would be looked upon as belonging to the same stock, which they technically, are. The same analogy applies to the white Americans whether they're from Ireland or Poland that are separated by almost two thousand miles. The Native American people are the sons of the soil Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego and that's a heritage you must not let go off your hands just because of regional "barriers" that are not applicable in a country like the US with its racial profiling laws. Till you get that sorted out, nothing's going to work in your favour. I wish you all the very best, my friend.
@neurotypical_1 Well the continents North America and South America are both known as the Americas. That's the geographical expression of the continent. America is not confined to just the USA. Tomorrow if France changes its name to United States of Europe and the people of France start calling themselves European, it won't make a German or an Italian any less European. So, America is not just the USA but all of North America and South America, technically. That's the permanent identity of these two continents. The United States of America is only a geopolitical terminology, which cannot dislodge the continental identity of North America and South America. Many geopolitical expressions are wrong and faulty, i.e. in the US, only people from East Asia or the Far East are called Asians. People from my country are called South Asian. People from Iran or Iraq or Arabia are called Middle Eastern but these regions are all in the continent of Asia. My continental identity is Asian as much as that of a Japanese or a Kazhak or a Yemeni. Again in the UK (Britain) Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans are called Asians while people from East Asia are called Orientals. So, geopolitical expressions are changeable and rather crazy. So, it's not necessary to to be tied up to the geopolitical idea that only residents of the USA are Americans and the rest of the folks from other parts of North and South America are from some other continent. Any native born individual including those who identify themselves as Mestizo, are technically Native American in the USA and all laws and regulations that negate this truth are essentially subversive, diversionary and intended to divide and rule.
@neurotypical_1 Appreciate your response. Well, I am a well-wisher from India and I sincerely wish that every full-blooded Native American as well as a Mestizo from Mexico to Chile is recognised as a Native American in USA. All my suggestions are just friendly advice based on my understanding of the logic of racial categorisation in the USA. Mestizos and full blooded Native American immigrants in the USA have to forge a unity and stop looking back to the different countries they came from. It requires a simple mental adjustment - if you have native blood flowing in your veins, then you're Native American and you deserve to be given the respect that is due to you! You should be the first recipients of the benefits of any affirmative action that is provided to the disadvantaged in the USA. Every struggle needs a strategy and every strategy need not be cunning. The Mestizo = Native American case is an open and shut case. Pursue it to the logical conclusion, it would be good for all and one.
Your 100% correct about that good ol divide and conquer. Too many Native Americans that belong to recognized tribes in the United states think like the ones who created the borders here in the Americas. A lot of indigenous tribal people separate themselves from their relatives south of the”border” … imagine, if ALL indigenous people in the Americas came TOGETHER & fought to prevent against European colonization back in 1492… wow❤️🩹 but separation continues amongst us even still now.
Sadly, our human race has been sliced and diced, labeled by contrived names, and expected to be understood. This lady makes this point clearly. In the United States, we have over 538 federally recognized Tribes, and many not recognized. Throughout North and South America thousands of indigenous people with there own language and views. And, it is much easier if the dominant culture can see as as one group of people. It takes an open and intelligent mind to deal with complexity and variety. Unfortunately, we have too many people that are closed mined and of low intelligence. This dominant culture defines our economics and way of living. No wonder it fails.
European colonists in the USA (and other North and South American countries) have stolen the identity of Americans for themselves, along with the land, and have sought to undermine or deny the claims and rights of indigenous peoples to exist within the same space. Americans refer to all indigenous peoples from former Spanish and Portuguese conquests as Latinos/-as because the majority are indigenous Americans, but to recognize that would be to recognize that they have a greater right to live in the USA (or Canada) than European colonists. The ancestors of Indigenous people in Central American isthmus, South America and the Caribbean all migrated South from what is now the USA and Canada after crossing the Bering Straits from Eurasia.
Not nessacarily that many central americans come from The USA also the people who landed in Central America and South America and the Caribbean would be indigenous to the area
They have Asian DNA and the Mongolian spot, that all Asiatics are born with and disappears at about 9 years of age. Criminal forensic science reinforces that. All Indigenous people From Mexico, Central and South America are part of the Asiatic family.@@MissCleo24
This is amazing! Too bad information like this is not being taught in most schools. History is history and cannot be changed. I find extremely sad that many indigenous languages are disappearing little by little. Thank you very much Odilia Romero!
As a MESTIZO since, AD1275 {+Cypriot/+Yuda/Zahari} have always included any other culture identity with our Spanish ancestry. Today our MESTIZO identity reflects this {+Cypriot/Yuda/Zahari/Native}, complex yes but real. I understand not many in USA even realize we exist with this identity but it's FACT! thank you for this video.
@alexslieker9744 What is your point? Most Indigenous people have European last names. Spanish is, in fact, from Spain. Which is a European country. It's called COLONIZATION. Before you try telling me about myself, culture, language, traditions, clothing etc. Why don't you go educated yourself first? FYI Herrera is my married last name. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hi from Russia! Those woman in red jacket and with curly hair who called the speaker "uneducated indian" should have had the answer " judging by your norms of morality youre lack of education too"!!! Well to my opinion native americans looks very different from spanish, I would recognise them if i visit America one day.
My grandfather is Zapoteca. I was born in Mexico. First generation in USA. I do not speak the native language of my ancestors. I got a lot of hate from chicanos and Mexicans on both sides. And I’m sure if I went into your village they would not treat me with open arms. Prejudice exist everywhere in all countries by all races. I’ve learned to be tough and resilient but most importantly to treat others with the same respect I want to be treated with.
Im Mexican on both maternal and paternal side of the family. I am proud to be Hispanic. The speaker is majority Indigenous…I am not according to my DNA and the mirror. LOL Latino, Mexican, Hispanic is cool with me.
I will always have respect for all Natives from the Arctic coast down to Panama and further. I grew up in San Joaquin Valley among Mexican, many proudly Native, especially Oaxacan. And locals like the Mono and Chukchansi. A friend told me Natives are still subjugated especially by corporate in Mexico. I will always support indigenous ways and was never shy. I would rather live in a dugout in the woods than deal with the way civilization is now. My Godfather loved his ancestry and he spoke Pipil and gave me a name, Chiltik. It means red because of my beard 😅
AS A LATINO I WOULD LOVE TO BE CALLED NATIVE AMERICAN IT FITS US WAY MORE I SIMPLY ADORE IT AS IT IS WHAT WE ARE AND UNLIKE LATINX IT ISNT AKWARD TO SAY
@Eddie MORALES I'm Native American & racists whites always call me Mexican & telll me to go back to Mexico, as if they think every last Native American went extinct. I wish too that Whites would just call all indigenous ppl of America, Native Americans.
Latino's should stand up & demand to be called native amerricans, even though many are just part Indians, but so are many native ameircans just part Indian. tell white people that your descendants of ancient indigenous people of America
We should just honestly just be called South Americans like how people from Africa are called Africans, People from Asia are called Asians etc. (granted there are different parts for example there’s East Asia, South Africa etc) Never understood why they refer to people living there as “Latino” just because we speak latin Romance languages as if it’s exclusive to this continent when there’s clearly other countries in the world that speak Spanish and French. So that label of “Latino America” on a continent that’s should’ve just been strictly called South America and its people “South American” makes no sense to me tbh
@@AlejandroDaniel531tu diceds soy Americano o soy mexicanos? Colombiano? Etc Los de Los estados unidos dicen se llaman americanos hasta gente de otros continentes les llaman haci
Up the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church!! I’m proud of being Spanish and Native American heritage! I love our Hispanic and Catholic culture!! Viva la Hispanidad!! 🇪🇸 ✝️ ❤️
I am only 28% Native American but I feel closest to this part of my heritage. I remember an item on the news where someone had accosted a Navajo man and told him to go back to his own country! I felt physically sick when I heard that. It's going to be a hard journey to stop the stereotyping on this continent. I wish Odilia well and hope things will change.
@@MissCleo24- That means nothing, she had Indigenous maids. She was not connected to her “Indigenous side” and Indigenous people are not homogenous, she was profiting off of Tehuana Zapotec women.
I’m Mexican and on the race questions on any forms I alway put Indigenous American. I am mestizo but since I can’t choose two things sometimes, I would like to be represented in the Indigenous American race. I am white but do not look totally European. I look like both European and Indigenous American so it’s very complicated for me on those questioner’s about race.
For one, don't use the word mestizo. You're using the wrong word to describe what you are. Mestizo is an old word used to describe a select caste system in the 1500s+. Unless you're still living in the 1500s and in that caste system, then go right ahead.
As an Indigenous North American, Comanche and Maya Tzel, born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, 100% Chicano, but I understand all humans are actors and audiences, so I am a Latino in my USA 🇺🇸 and act accordingly to advance humanity. Latinos are Indigenous Peoples with any Western Christian European ancestry, by hook or crook... To all relations, present.
I've seen this in my predominantly "Latino" neighborhood many times. I'm able to recognize an indigenous person from south of the border almost right away, but they're often lumped in with the mainstream. Happy she's bringing this to light.
Well fhe problem is that Latinos ARE indigenous as we have Indigenous roots and usually 25% or more. This is enough to be considered to live on a reservation in the states. The problem comes is when the Spanish erased the language and culture from the indigenous side. Hence why people identify as Mexican as they do not know where their indigenous blood came from.
@@maggie6100 uhh because these people get so offended when you accidently call them mexican like this woman is here and want to make a big deal out of everything instead of kindly correcting someone and even if they keep accidently calling you mexican, who cares, are you really gonna get all worked up over that
It’s mostly because I don’t speak Spanish, but we don’t hear enough from indigenous south americans. Both North and South American countries today are a result of European colonisation, but they seem to show very different attitudes towards the fact.
@@javiervega1065 well mr. Brightest, stop bs if you don’t know anything, what is full blood Azteca btw.? Mayan in Chiapas are not full blood.? Tarumara in sirra de Tarumara are not full blood.. and only reason Mexican says their descendants are Spanish because they want doesn’t want them to be identified as native which they believe is insult. Specially whitexican who influence Mexican.
I am afro latino i am proud of my heritage although I wish I was more intact with my native side as we all are my family is from oxaca, guerreo, Nayarit
Wait wait, but when Mexico own Cali and New Mexico there were tribes there and when Americans came they claim that land and they called those ppl native Americans but if you were connected to Mexico what would that make those tribes…
U S. Natives know the difference who's native and who's not and most Mexicans know too my coworkers knew I was was more Mexicano than other mestizos my grandmother was full blood native Mexican from Chapala Jalisco coca nahuas tarascan
I’m going to be that uncomfortable person and say, that she didn’t learn Spanish but she learned another colonizer language, which is further removed from the identity of the country where she was born in. I understand her plight, I am Mexican of indigenous descent and I only speak Spanish and English, some Italian and Portuguese but I have not learned an indigenous language. That is I believe what we should do first.
Wrong, the word “Mexican “ comes from the word “Mexica “, which is what the Aztecs called themselves. Mexicans are indigenous and Mestizo. Mestizos have indigenous and Spanish blood.Most mestizo have more indigenous DNA than Spanish. But, especially the last 25 years, Mexico has had a lot of immigrants. So, who knows what the Mexican DNA will be like in the next few generations. As of now , Mexican DNA leans towards Native American.
The pipiles of El Salvador are direct descendants of the Mexica(Aztec). The Toltec also made a great influence in Mesoamerica, not to mention the mother culture of Mesoamerica( the Olmec of Mexico).
You know I can appreciate and understand your feelings and thoughts. But what we all have to be careful to understand is that our differences and separation does not also cause reverse discrimination to what you term as the white man or even the European. That is very complicated. If you were to study history in depth, anyone, you would understand this. The very Spanish that came and colonized were themselves technically mestizo and more. For Spaniards their ancestry is mixed with the Native Iberians and then add about another 10-12 colonizations and mixing. So the old saying is that history repeats iteself. Spaniards were the only Europeans that even mixed with the indians, the other Europeans kept to themselves. That is why the Northern European, Central European went into Spain to clean out what they deemed as inpure blood lines. They wanted to make Iberia into what they wanted. They did not succeed. All cultures that are deep in tradition and have not mixed retain their pride, whether you are Native to the land of Mexico or an Iberan or Guanche that is native to Spain. Pride is Pride. We need to make sure though our pride does not become a form of Ethnocentrism or we do not fully know what other cultures went thru and we only repeat false tales or leyendas negras..that is not good either.
The entire continent of Europe was once Pagan and very connected to Nature, much like the people living in the Americas before the Spanish came. The indigenous White Europeans were subjected to forced religious conversion under threat of death by Christian colonizers. (Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion it is not European). Pagan temples were burned down, Pagan libraries were burned down, Pagan priestesses and priests were mass murdered. Nearly every race has been a victim of colonization and the destruction of their culture and tradition, including European Whites.
The way I see it... Mexico is a big mix of races and cultures. You can proudly be zapoteca and Mexican at the same time. You dont have to be upset if people doesn't get your particular etnic group. Be Mexican... Be proud.
Sorry, I can't agree. The " LATINO " and "HISPANIC" label are offensive to all Mexicans, and all Native Americans. I don't know one single person that identifies with Latino or Hispanic. but if you are born in Mexico you are Mexican. If your father and your mother come from Russia but you are born in Mexico, you are Mexican, not Russian. If you want to label yourself with your Native American ancestor's tribal name, it's up to you, it's your choice. I'm a mix of Native American, African, Spanish, European. I identify as Mexican.
@@cr1slop3z ¿Qué tiene de malo lo Hispano? Está en nuestra sangre, nuestros nombres y apellidos, nuestro idioma, nuestra religión, nuestra arquitectura, los nombres de nuestras ciudades. Es parte fundamental y esencial de nuestra cultura.
@@cr1slop3z No soy de España, soy de Ecuador. Mi apellido es Bonilla, vivo en Guayaquil, una ciudad fundada por españoles, mi familia materna es católica y somos mestizos, hablamos español.
I am proud to be Hispanic! I am proud of Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizarro. I am proud to be a Spanish speaker. I am proud to be Catholic. I am mixed. Proud Mestizo. Que Viva la Conquista! Viva Mexico! 🇲🇽 Viva España 🇪🇸
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My grandparents are Pipils from Nahuizalco, preach sister and much love to all my indigenous brothers and sisters from a Salvadorian 👋🇸🇻
my husband is pipil! ❤
@@saffron1996 That's awesome! Much love sister viva Kuskatan ✊🇸🇻❤
I saw your comment about the nicarao people, love my Pipil neighbors from your Nicarao kin
@@ChiefMacuilmiquiztli Nahua Pipils and Nahua Nicarao we are both descendants of the Toltecs, somos hermanos somos familia 🇸🇻❤🇳🇮
Nahua Senyelistli!
Odilia - thank you for your clarity and truth. So much gratitude to you for your story and voice. ❤🎉
I saw a Native American say " these people are not immigrants ( Mexicans) these are Native people coming home " 🇺🇸👍
They are soooo right.
...some of the Mexicans are Indigenous....some, not all.
@@mixtecjaguar9824only 10% of Hispanic American populations are pure Spaniards.
The majority are Mestizos
@@mixtecjaguar9824majority have just as much indigenous ancestry as those people on the reservation who are also mixed
Absolutely correct. They have every right to be welcome here. Our ancestors didn't have a border and ranged back and forth over the future "border". Every native band in existence at one time or other lived much further north or much further south, throughout history, whether recorded or unrecorded.
As a Guatemalan as my self , will always love my Native American,we are children of mother Earth
I love that she is very proud of her heritage. I applaud you queen.
@@bull419 Any real man that has knowledgeable woman in their life refer to their women as queens. In yours possibly a 🤴. So sad😞
Drug dealers
@@Ava_Mackenzie Drug user
Now go kiss queens ring beta boy
@@Ava_Mackenzie stay mad transplant
I've met an elder couple that are, indigenous people from, near the boarder to Belize.
They didn't speak Spanish.
They spoke their natural indigenous language and, a very little english.
They couldn't read english very well.
The man asked me to, read a label out loud to him.
He understood english from hearing it, more then he could, reading it.
So I read the food item label, to them.
And, it was the product they were looking for.
He thanked me, in his first language, then again, in english.
He too said, they are not Mexican
I can not remember, what clan he said, they came from.
Indigenous... such a superior sounding term. Almost god like.
They were probably Maya. ^-^
Da'an'zho 100 100% native american apache of mexico is me and we are not asian we are not white were indigenous native americans of the americas and that will NEVER CHANGE 💯🕵🏾♀️👏🏾💥🤜🏾🤛🏾😉 and Mexicans their all native american we all need to forgive our enemies they can't label when they dont even know their own roots
I’m Chiricahua Apache and my family registered themselves as Latino instead of native in the census. I’m trying to reclaim our heritage and so are so many of my other family members.
@Raccon_Detective.Agree. At least the Euro-centrists don't want anything to do with or have any kind of affiliation with Natives but the Afro-centrists are the ones trying to colonize my history, culture, heritage
@Raccon_Detective.Agree
Very cool. Use the term american indian. That is the war crime term they used. If you ever take the republic to court you have no sovereignty using the term native american. Trust. Good day
Your wokeism doesn't speak for the rest of us
I just done a DNA test and found out I’m 95% indigenous to Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru! I was told by my family and strangers I probably have European or Asian blood, I was always confused by my identity felt like I didn’t belong anywhere but nope it was just my indigenous features all along I’m so proud of them🤎
@@amyscreation4851 find your identity in Christ ✡️.
Let’s embrace our Native American/indigenous heritage.
Native Americans stand with any Mexican/Latino who embraces their native ancestry
Separate yourself from the protesters. The war crime is on american indian. We are tribal people by law of custom not indigenous. Trust me native and indigenous is a new term. The english and spanish common amd civils laws fear greek terms like tribal.
Why don't you embrace your Spaniard heritage who built your modern day civilization. With The other civilization you would still be living in the stone age.
@@javiervega1065 because the Spaniards weren't that great when it came to fighting. Even the Germans in the 1930s wrote books about Spaniards being at the bottom of the European hierarchy
@@sacrificedogculture I think he's speaking to Indigenous people since he looks indigenous himself.
I’m mixed with African American and Indigenous(Mexican) and I am proud of and love both my people ❤
Many of the African Americans are actually indigenous. I'm honest enough to tell you that. They were here just like Indigenous Mexicans.
@@jordanfauntleroy2013 I’m sorry but that’s not true its been debunked countless amounts of times by genetics and anthropology
Yup yup @@jordanfauntleroy2013
and yet you got a white man as ur profile photo
@Carlinisalive yes we are indigenous. We were here before this land was called "america". My grandma always referred to "mexicans" as "our cousins" because we were all living on this land together as a community before the white man came
I’m mestiza my dad is an Italian who’s family immigrated to Mexico in the 60s/50s and my mom is hñähñu chichimeca/ Otomi I’ve always been more close to my indigenous roots because I grew up with my moms family I’m very proud to say I’m Native American, but it’s really sad seeing how growing up in Latin America most mestizos or full indigenous people don’t claim their indigenous heritage they view indigenous people as as a minority I remember my mom making me wear our traditional clothing to school and braids and the kids would call me “India” but I learned to stand up for myself and say “si si soy y que 🪶💯” regarding my skin color which is quite pale in comparison to my mothers my name, my culture, my traditions, That I am the closest too is indigenous American 🪶🪶
Everyone who refer to themselves as Mestizo are actually more indigenous, but don"t want to be because they are brained washed. Take pride in your native heritage. Your dad is a true Latino as the French, Hispanics, Romanians. I Notice the Chinese went to school keeping their traditions and eating their food at school. Teach your children the same.
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dpSoy mestizo mi piel es blanca y tengo ascendencia africana.
Eliminar que somos mestizos es una tontería, además en mi país te llaman indigena si tenés un aspecto indigena aunque tengas algo de mestizaje.
Sorry about your experience at school. It's something native/indigenous go through everyday and it's getting worse for us. Blessings to you Native
❤️🪶💪🏾
I thought Meztiso only referred to the people at the time of the conquest between the Spanish and indigenous, not new Europeans from the 1950’s.
Much Love My Sister 🪶
-Lenca Tribe 🇭🇳
Your more Spaniard than anything else
@@javiervega1065 we need haters like you 👏😂😂
Un abrazo a los/as Lenca
I work for a handicraft company that sells products from all over the world. Right now a lot of branches are showing off whatever was made in Latin America on social media with captions claiming "Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!" ...Problem is, half of the Latin American products they're associating with "Hispanic" are actually made by indigenous peoples - Highland Maya women from Guatemala, Quechua and Aymara-speaking people from Peru, and Kichwa-speaking people from Ecuador. It's really annoying.
you're absolutely right. Probably is something related to the crazy 'political correctness' that is ruining US and western countries, they have this urge to label and define anything and anyone, but trying to be correct they reveal how arrogant they are
No it's not
Please please what is the name of your company?? I would like to buy something 💗
Those cultures are intertwined in Latin America
Wonderful presentation; thank you teacher. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎Respect and gratitude :)
Respect. I remember when I was asked to interpret for one of my partners (I worked in Law Enforcement). The guy that was being arrested looked at me at but confused. I asked him, if he was Mexican, he said, “Yes.” Then I asked if my Spanish was confusing (I speak proper/formal Spanish-I’m Salvadoran). The suspect told me Spanish wasn’t his first language and he struggles sometimes to understand. He said he was from Oaxaca. Anyway, since my 30th birthday, I’ve been identifying as American Indian. This lady reminds me of my grandma. Embrace your roots! 🎉
My grandma spoke Spanish but looked like this lady since her mother was 100% Native from Comala.
We natives from tribes that know our roots are not mexican, latino, "indian", or hispanic, or chicano... us natives should know north and south america is our land
Thank you bro but you arw not INDIAN you are a real AMERICAN-NATIVE, not native -american.
@@blueracer66 amen we Latino are navite American
Are you from India?
Marvelous! Yes, it’s a sign of resistance! Saludos cordiales paisana 💕
I’m nicaraguan-american and my great grandma was a pure nawat nicarao (nahua) native. She had red skin, like a native american, and its documented in the chronicles of conquistadors francisco cordoba and gil gonzalez davila describing the nawat nicarao people as “rojos” and their children "rojitos" (reds/little reds in spanish). I have 40% native american on my dna test (60% european), proud of my nahua heritage 💪🇳🇮
Good for you! this is the start of inner liberation and unification with all indegenous people.
@@JosephMarquez-pj9dp my grandpa and great grandparents were from a nicarao town in rivas called "nahuapan" (originally was nahuacalpan before it was shortened). Older generations of his family spoke nawat but the language died with them in the late 1800s, around the same time that nawat went extinct in nicaragua. The language may be dead, but like you said as long as the heritage is embraced, the pride in oneself lasts forever. Thank you friend 🙏
The Nicarao are a subgroup of the Pipils which descend from the Toltecs. Salvadorians and Nicaraguans are descendants of Toltecs, bless you brother from your Salvadorian brethren 🇸🇻🤝🇳🇮
They painted there skin with red paint as it was tradition, body paint ing. Brown is beautiful 🟤
No one has red skin, unless they're sunburned or paint themselves. It's more likely that these chronicles were written with some poetic license. Either the people that they were describing painted themselves red as a form of intimidation like war paint or they may have been so war like that "red" was used to describe them. Like a bull when it see red or when a person "sees" red when they are in a rage. History is written by the winners and they don't always tell that history truthfully. I wouldn't those DNA tests too seriously. There have been examples of identical twins taking them and getting completely different results.
It is sad that Native Americans are the ones having the hardest time moving from one country to another within the Americas. The borders made by others stop us, and allow everybody else through.
Don't forget, we are also "illegals" even though our ancestors have been living here for so long before European colonization. If anything, Europeans and whites should be considered illegal immigrants and deported back! See how they like it!
The Jay treaty provides for freedom of movement between Indeginious peoples of Canada and the United States . This treaty should be extended to Mexico and beyond for all indeginious Americans
Where you’d get that nonsense?
There are tribes that are located on both sides of the USA/Mexican border and they move back and forth freely.
I don’t understand your point.
mexicans are not native. they are the spanish and latin derives from the roman empire.
native americans are obviously are from this land before any of these groups but why are we talking about firsts all the time... is it cause nationalists are all trying to play a game... yeh.
Yes, yes, and YES! We hear you. We champion you. And we thank you for sharing your truth with us.
you are delusional if you think mexicans are native.
Proud Mestizo! Love all my Indigenous peoples and cultures.
Indigenous Resistance for our existence ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽🦅🦅🦅🦅
Cry me a river beta boy
@@javiervega1065 whatever that is lmao
@@chaitea4701 you
@@javiervega1065 k
@@javiervega1065classick brown unKKKletom?
Hello. I come from a super molested land where your ancestors have come from across the pacific ocean. We share the same color and blood, so it was a heartfelt experience to go along your narrative as our blindness has changed us to hide and be ashamed of ourselves. Your words are uplifting and put me in a sense of calm. Thank you.
I went through the same thing and I am 60 now. I have preached this since I was young and My mother taught me this same thing.
Very smart lady 😘her English is perfect.She’s very proud of her heritage, my respects 🙏
I am very indigenous looking but just don’t think about it,I just go with the flow.
I am Mexican but also Native American from Mexico but I don`t know my native side or culture but I can relate with Odilia 100% and I stand with her in what she has said Blessing my Amiga.
@viewer9058why is she speaking English?
Native Americans which are most belongs from mayan civilization.. Actually they are belong from..indian ...alias red Indian. ..
Hispano confundido
Thank u....very interesting. No matter how far apart we are, we breath the same air.....
Fantastic woman. I love the highlands of Oaxaca.
Odilia Romero, hablas del corazón. Viva Los Indígenas:)
You're a Beautiful Soul ❣️I can relate with you on many levels . You are a survivor 🌹 and so am I . Keep doing a tremendous job. Spread Love to the children. People need to look on the inside ,the heart❣️One day we will all be free learning to love we'll find a way one day . God Bless you and your family.
This video is specifically for people within what is now Latin America who are connected Indigenous people, not Latinos in general btw. She’s solely speaking for the Indigenous community.
Latin comes from Italy and Hispanic is one of the regions of the Roman/Rome divisions. Central to South America is not Latin which is suitable for American territory and that is due to colonialism, it is inappropriate to be called Latin America.
@@raflykato1789Hispanic is someone speaks Spanish, Latino is someone from Latin America. Regardless of your history lesson that’s what it is now. But I agree with with the original comment, if an indigenous person never assimilated to Latino/Hispanic culture then they are not Latino/Hispanic
@@LatAm13 So everyone who speaks English should be called "Germanics" since English is a German-based language? Hispanic/Latino are more than what you're describing - they're purposeful terms of erasure and cultural genocide. My Nahua family embraces and includes - they don't divide and exclude. Only Italians are Latinos and Spanish are Hispanic.
too bad, we dont care and we will call ourselves indigenous
@@Planet_Perfume good for you?
I am mixed race with indigenous and Spanish. I embrace both.
Latin is an Indo-European language that originated in the Latium region of central Italy. It was the language of ancient Rome and was used throughout the Roman Empire for communication, administration, and literature.
@@KPKonsciousPotential 🫣🫣🫣🫣menuda cagada acabas de soltar…meaning…you need to read more and less Hollywood Anglo-Saxon films.
@@KPKonsciousPotential Eres un ignorante no hace falta que ademas lo demuestre publicamente. Beati Hispani quibus viveren biberen est.
Thanks for saying it. Totally correct.
I want to visit Oaxaca and also the afro Mexican community there
No such thing there not native 😂
Stop believing everything on RUclips.
There is no such thing as afro mexican or afro latin we got to stop this nonsense it's further dividing us as people
they're* also of coutse they're not native, africa is not in Oaxaca duh@@danielchuta7362
Want cookie for that?
Preach 🙌🏽✨️ I have been saying this for years! Finally someone understands 🎉
Great! you continued to preach the truth. We all have to in order to educate the masses of our people. You never gave up. Keep doing it!.
Padiuxi! I studied there back in the early nineties, what a great experience. I am planning to visit Zoogocho in the next few years.
I was separated from my family and raised white, I am working to reclaim my indigenous identity. I am so proud of my culture and my people and I just can’t simply leave that behind. It’s in my blood. It’s in my DNA. We should all be so proud. I don’t have a single drop of Spanish blood and that means resistance. We did not bow. I love this woman.
You were separated from your family and raised European American. Are you working to reclaim your brown identity? If colors are not good enough for one group, then they are not good enough for any. Racism hurts.
What are you going to tell the blacks that are claiming to be the real indigenous of the Americas? 😂
@@allwillberevealed777 I hear dat! They is Kanz!!!
Do a dna test 😊
Culture is NOT in DNA
I am just an indigenous as well and didn't learn so much about my origin language. All I can acknowledge I come from otomi . I am being discriminated all the time .
I’m nuu savi and I feel you brother
Nahau, Pueblo and Navajo here! You're still related to the northern native americans!
You are probably mestiza,you don’t really look like a Native American
@@HYDROCARBON_XD
Based on her profile and look, I would say she does look predominantly native/indigenous.
Don"t worry about it! Just because you can"t speak the language or know your traditions your still native. Blacks don"t know anything about their tribe but that dosen"t stop them to indentify as African because they are.!
So relatable. My grandma speaks Nawakayáno, and I grew up speaking it and still using it to this day. Although I have spanish speaking family who don't know anything about our culture and language, I still feel somewhat discriminated. My grandma said we are Yanoshinenatsóte. Although I speak Spanish and English. I wouldn't want to refer to myself as Latino or Hispanic.
Learn you indigenous language and encourage your relatives to speak it.
i can’t find anything about this on google. Seems to be a rare tribe. Please try to not kill your own culture
You are latin because you speak a latin-language, it has nothing to do with your race or ethnicity.
Sorry, Spain was great and civilized the native Americans.
@@danielsanguinario literally prly from latin america with some amount of European ancestry
YES!!!! 🫵🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽♥️♥️♥️🪶🪶 Thank you!!
I was one of those native southern children who was used in the 80s to test mental health drugs.
They had me on as many as 6 at a time for years.
They took advantage of my mother's ignorance and wrecked my childhood.
I’m literally half and half (Spaniard and Native American). I identify as Hispanic American culturally, Mexican American by nationality.
I claim Hispanic because half of me is Spaniard and I can’t change that. I’ve traced my lineages back to the Fatherland. My other half is Native American… it is what it is.
So you are mixed. Hispanic (from iberia) and native american.
@@Randive correct. I’ve done DNA tests and collaborated with my DNA matches to confirm relatives and ancestors and thanks to the Catholic Church’s phenomenal record keeping throughout the Spanish Empire… I’ve been able to trace my lineages as far back as the 1100s to 1200s.
None of my indigenous ancestors were “graped” or forced into anything. I’ve found marriage records showing my Spanish ancestors happily married with full blown Mestizo families.
My “mestizo” racial make up has been in tact since the 1500s.
That's like Bob Marley identifying with Britannic just because he was half English.
@@saiga97 who says he can’t? You? Lol
Is it written in the cosmic legal code that he can’t?
American implies born in the US so you’re not doing much to represent your indigenous heritage. People born in the US of Spanish descent are “Hispanic American” so how are you differentiating yourself? Unless you’re straight indigenous most mexicans are mixed indigenous & European.
I love this woman.
when we as indigenous people stand strong and proud, we can educate the world as to who we truly are and the world will be healed....
The issue is that Native tribes who are federally recognized in the United States have ancestral homelands with separate and distinct languages, cultures and cermonies and sovereignty on their reservation lands accoding to treaties with the U.S. government. When Indigenous people migrate today and move north as individuals onto other Native lands, they can't join a different tribal nation. Their whole tribe would have to move together and buy land and establish themselves as a tribe and request recognition from the U.S govt. Individual Indigenous people from Mexico and South America don't have to be called Latino or Hispanic but if they aren't enrolled in a federally recognized tribe and can't prove descent from a federally recognized tribe in the U.S- then they are a displaced Indigenous person. They don't have rights other than any other group of migrants. People move from Mexico to Chicago and start claiming this is their new homelands which is wrong. There were several tribes who were removed from Illinois in 1832 who are still fighting to re-establish their connections to Illinois. Whe Indigenous people do this it's lateral violence and they're behaving like settler-colonials. They don't have rights to new lands that don't belong to them. There is no mystical wandering Indigenous Individual person or family that has the same status as tribes who have been living in the U.S. and who have negotiated treaties. Indigenous Mexicans come north and want jobs in Native communities but they don't understand anything about the trbes in that area, they don't speak the language and are not trained as someone who can perform ceremonies. You can't bring traditions from 5,000 miles away and expect to replace the Indigenous people who have always lived in the area. That is colonization whether you call yourself Indigenous or not.
Tribes here don't like and even object to state-recognized "tribes", much less a group coming from outside US borders attempting to get US federal recognition. Native Americans are the only racial group mentioned in the US constitution. People don't realize the formal ties of Native Americans and the US. Most tribes had treaties or agreements with other European nations even before the US was born. They later also signed with the US, who were newbies as far as the Native nations were concerned. Some Native American tribes up here had formal agreements with Spain too but chose to sign with the Americans later. I know, ouch, Spain recognized some tribes up here at one time. But that's what they need to do, get recognized by the nation where their tribe is located. Doesn't make any sense for the US to recognize them and that would be stepping on the toes of Mexican, Central and South American governments. Sounds like they want an excuse for uncontrolled immigration, which is not a pressing issue for tribes who have been here for centuries and have no need to go any place else as a tribe.
Thank you. I am Comanche, Apache and come from the Shoshone people.❤
I know her, never met her, but I know her. I, also lived with my Grandparents and Great Grama, I was born in Arizona, but I knew I was Native. My Dad's side is Yaqui, they never called us children, they called us bookis, Yaqui for young ones. Were very true to the Day of the Dead. I was just Mexican for a long time. Started school, went to Hispanic,Latina, Mexican American,Chicana, I like Chicana bc of the movement. Chicanos r kinda like the new tribe of the South West. My Mom's family is Huachelo from Jalisco. This is where I get a lot of Mexican history, my Tata (grandpa), was full Huachelo. They used to talk to me a lot about the Natives. The first time I went to Mexico with my grandparents, my Tata said, holding earth in his hand, "this is the earth of our seed, there is no other beginning and no end". He took us to the river where his tribe still washed outside. I didn't realize their lessons, till I got older. I'm no spring chicken. I identified as Native for the first time on the last census. It felt right.
Greetings from India. I'm doing some research on the percentage of Native Americans in the USA and I was also quite intrigued by the fact that Native American people coming into the US from Latin America are not considered native in the US. The European rulers of the USA have put you all into a spiral of ethnicities, languages, nationalities and what not so that you all don't get a peek at the big picture. :D
When I heard you speak on this video, I understood why it is that difficult for ordinary Native Americans from Mexico, Central and South America to get that big picture. Just in case you're wondering what on earth is that "big picture" I'm referring to, then here's what I meant - going by the US classification of a Native American, even people who consider themselves Mestizos can be Native American. You'd know it better than me that there are scores of federally accepted Native Americans with varying percentages of European blood flowing in their veins.
Therefore, all of you Mestizos and pure Native Americans based in the USA and originating in Mexico, Central America and South America could easily comprise at least two-thirds of the "Latino" population in the US. That would be in the range of 20% of the US population and that's a massive vote base.
Yes, the beautiful things you spoke about your native culture is extremely important for your identity and individuality but you need to get your priorities right as a community - the Native American community. Look at the African-American or for that matter, the composite white or Caucasian community.
I feel your top priority is the recognition of the native American community in the US originating in Mexico, Central America and South America as Native Americans. If the laws on date appear to be a stiff barrier on the way to fulfill this priority then you need your own folks to set aside every other priority behind this one and get the message across loud and clear to those who come asking for your votes in both the federal and state level elections as well as your local county level elections.
I come from a country where our native traditions have helped us survive nearly fourteen centuries of unrelenting invasions first by Islamic sultanates and then by the same European colonial imperialists and we know a thing or two about how they operate. :D They follow a simple principle - divide and rule! They played on our diversity and now they are playing on yours.
So, get every Native American on board and get that recognition first. Everything else will follow thereafter.
Thanks for your words of wisdom and support for my people (full native american) When I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I remember hearing stories from Native elders and their thoughts on the mexicans/hispanics and they used to say a day is gonna come where quite a few of them are going to rediscover who they are as Native/indigenous people. Even today, I can say I'm seeing more mexicans embracing their indigenous heritage. But yes that divide and conquer strategy is what they use. But it won't last long. Your country is a perfect example of being brutally colonized by the British Empire to being an independent nation, a very powerful world power on top of that. Blessings to yours.
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 Thank you for your kind and respectful words. 🙏 I feel you need to get over this "regional" barrier coming in the way of Native American unity. I would take a leaf out of the Caucasian American and the African American handbook of unity.
These groups are as varied in regional terms as you are. So let's say an African American person's ancestors came from Senegal or Guinea in West Africa and another African American person's ancestors came from Tanzania or Mozambique in southeastern Africa. These two regions are separated by as much distance as Honduras and Paraguay but they'll never let that regional barrier come in the way of African American unity, and with good reason.
Here, in the United States, a non-African person would never look at both these individuals as separate entities from regions that are thousands of miles apart. They would be looked upon as belonging to the same stock, which they technically, are.
The same analogy applies to the white Americans whether they're from Ireland or Poland that are separated by almost two thousand miles.
The Native American people are the sons of the soil Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego and that's a heritage you must not let go off your hands just because of regional "barriers" that are not applicable in a country like the US with its racial profiling laws.
Till you get that sorted out, nothing's going to work in your favour.
I wish you all the very best, my friend.
@neurotypical_1 Well the continents North America and South America are both known as the Americas. That's the geographical expression of the continent.
America is not confined to just the USA. Tomorrow if France changes its name to United States of Europe and the people of France start calling themselves European, it won't make a German or an Italian any less European.
So, America is not just the USA but all of North America and South America, technically. That's the permanent identity of these two continents. The United States of America is only a geopolitical terminology, which cannot dislodge the continental identity of North America and South America.
Many geopolitical expressions are wrong and faulty, i.e. in the US, only people from East Asia or the Far East are called Asians.
People from my country are called South Asian. People from Iran or Iraq or Arabia are called Middle Eastern but these regions are all in the continent of Asia. My continental identity is Asian as much as that of a Japanese or a Kazhak or a Yemeni.
Again in the UK (Britain) Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans are called Asians while people from East Asia are called Orientals.
So, geopolitical expressions are changeable and rather crazy. So, it's not necessary to to be tied up to the geopolitical idea that only residents of the USA are Americans and the rest of the folks from other parts of North and South America are from some other continent.
Any native born individual including those who identify themselves as Mestizo, are technically Native American in the USA and all laws and regulations that negate this truth are essentially subversive, diversionary and intended to divide and rule.
@neurotypical_1 Appreciate your response. Well, I am a well-wisher from India and I sincerely wish that every full-blooded Native American as well as a Mestizo from Mexico to Chile is recognised as a Native American in USA.
All my suggestions are just friendly advice based on my understanding of the logic of racial categorisation in the USA. Mestizos and full blooded Native American immigrants in the USA have to forge a unity and stop looking back to the different countries they came from.
It requires a simple mental adjustment - if you have native blood flowing in your veins, then you're Native American and you deserve to be given the respect that is due to you!
You should be the first recipients of the benefits of any affirmative action that is provided to the disadvantaged in the USA.
Every struggle needs a strategy and every strategy need not be cunning. The Mestizo = Native American case is an open and shut case. Pursue it to the logical conclusion, it would be good for all and one.
Your 100% correct about that good ol divide and conquer. Too many Native Americans that belong to recognized tribes in the United states think like the ones who created the borders here in the Americas. A lot of indigenous tribal people separate themselves from their relatives south of the”border” … imagine, if ALL indigenous people in the Americas came TOGETHER & fought to prevent against European colonization back in 1492… wow❤️🩹 but separation continues amongst us even still now.
Sadly, our human race has been sliced and diced, labeled by contrived names, and expected to be understood. This lady makes this point clearly. In the United States, we have over 538 federally recognized Tribes, and many not recognized. Throughout North and South America thousands of indigenous people with there own language and views. And, it is much easier if the dominant culture can see as as one group of people. It takes an open and intelligent mind to deal with complexity and variety. Unfortunately, we have too many people that are closed mined and of low intelligence. This dominant culture defines our economics and way of living. No wonder it fails.
European colonists in the USA (and other North and South American countries) have stolen the identity of Americans for themselves, along with the land, and have sought to undermine or deny the claims and rights of indigenous peoples to exist within the same space. Americans refer to all indigenous peoples from former Spanish and Portuguese conquests as Latinos/-as because the majority are indigenous Americans, but to recognize that would be to recognize that they have a greater right to live in the USA (or Canada) than European colonists. The ancestors of Indigenous people in Central American isthmus, South America and the Caribbean all migrated South from what is now the USA and Canada after crossing the Bering Straits from Eurasia.
Not nessacarily that many central americans come from The USA also the people who landed in Central America and South America and the Caribbean would be indigenous to the area
@@MissCleo24 So you are saying the Natives were always in the Americas and never migrated from anywhere else ever?
Yup
They have Asian DNA and the Mongolian spot, that all Asiatics are born with and disappears at about 9 years of age. Criminal forensic science reinforces that. All Indigenous people From Mexico, Central and South America are part of the Asiatic family.@@MissCleo24
This lady has been discriminated against by Mexican/Latinos. Some Americans may refer to her as Latina because they are uninformed
This is amazing! Too bad information like this is not being taught in most schools. History is history and cannot be changed. I find extremely sad that many indigenous languages are disappearing little by little. Thank you very much Odilia Romero!
I also refuse to identify as Hispanic/ Latino!
Your better reconnect and find your tribes if you haven't, but regardless do not ever contribute to demographic genocide!
@@mex8984not if we're Brazilian soo...
Me too…50% indigenous ✊
@@Luci_S AHH I we've tried asking older ppl in the family but they don't know the tribes..
I perfer to be name (Milinated Master Lord Of this American Continent) 😊
As a MESTIZO since, AD1275 {+Cypriot/+Yuda/Zahari} have always included any other culture identity with our Spanish ancestry. Today our MESTIZO identity reflects this {+Cypriot/Yuda/Zahari/Native}, complex yes but real. I understand not many in USA even realize we exist with this identity but it's FACT! thank you for this video.
Colonization brought us together by language but we're native to the American continent like no other race ...
On these days, I still walk around and speak my indigenous k'iche language and so proud of being Mayan.
Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories 🙏
Ohhh, I love her! ❤
I don't speak Spanish. I'm Indigenous and White. That's it.
Mayans civilization ....red Indians belong from Ancient Indian civilization... you can't never seen any words like Mayan except of Hindu scriptures...
Who cares.
@@rachelherrera5867 but you have a Hispanic name
@alexslieker9744 What is your point? Most Indigenous people have European last names. Spanish is, in fact, from Spain. Which is a European country. It's called COLONIZATION. Before you try telling me about myself, culture, language, traditions, clothing etc. Why don't you go educated yourself first? FYI Herrera is my married last name. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@bull419 Clearly, you do because you are responding to my post. You are really in your feelies. 😄
I can’t sympathize with her experience, but I believe I can empathize with her message.
Hi from Russia! Those woman in red jacket and with curly hair who called the speaker "uneducated indian" should have had the answer " judging by your norms of morality youre lack of education too"!!! Well to my opinion native americans looks very different from spanish, I would recognise them if i visit America one day.
My grandfather is Zapoteca. I was born in Mexico. First generation in USA. I do not speak the native language of my ancestors. I got a lot of hate from chicanos and Mexicans on both sides. And I’m sure if I went into your village they would not treat me with open arms. Prejudice exist everywhere in all countries by all races. I’ve learned to be tough and resilient but most importantly to treat others with the same respect I want to be treated with.
Im Mexican on both maternal and paternal side of the family. I am proud to be Hispanic. The speaker is majority Indigenous…I am not according to my DNA and the mirror. LOL
Latino, Mexican, Hispanic is cool with me.
Thank you...mexica.👍🇲🇽👍
I'm sorry girl, and I support your people no matter what.
I will always have respect for all Natives from the Arctic coast down to Panama and further. I grew up in San Joaquin Valley among Mexican, many proudly Native, especially Oaxacan. And locals like the Mono and Chukchansi. A friend told me Natives are still subjugated especially by corporate in Mexico. I will always support indigenous ways and was never shy. I would rather live in a dugout in the woods than deal with the way civilization is now. My Godfather loved his ancestry and he spoke Pipil and gave me a name, Chiltik. It means red because of my beard 😅
AS A LATINO I WOULD LOVE TO BE CALLED NATIVE AMERICAN IT FITS US WAY MORE I SIMPLY ADORE IT AS IT IS WHAT WE ARE AND UNLIKE LATINX IT ISNT AKWARD TO SAY
@Eddie MORALES I'm Native American & racists whites always call me Mexican & telll me to go back to Mexico, as if they think every last Native American went extinct. I wish too that Whites would just call all indigenous ppl of America, Native Americans.
Latino's should stand up & demand to be called native amerricans, even though many are just part Indians, but so are many native ameircans just part Indian. tell white people that your descendants of ancient indigenous people of America
As a Mayan, I support this idea fully
@@stormy-le6pb
Tell the so called white supremacists to get back on their boat and go back to Europe!
@Katina Draper
How do you define half breed? I keep seeing this term thrown around a lot and I don't think people understand what it means.
Speak that truth sister. My people from here were forced to speak English in boarding schools. Then it was okay for it to be spoken to win their war.🎉
We should just honestly just be called South Americans like how people from Africa are called Africans, People from Asia are called Asians etc. (granted there are different parts for example there’s East Asia, South Africa etc) Never understood why they refer to people living there as “Latino” just because we speak latin Romance languages as if it’s exclusive to this continent when there’s clearly other countries in the world that speak Spanish and French. So that label of “Latino America” on a continent that’s should’ve just been strictly called South America and its people “South American” makes no sense to me tbh
Mexico is in North America.
@@jinh817says who? The colonizers
@@JoseSanchez-sd7ctPues sí, los colonizadores llamaron al continente América, así que somos americanos.
@@AlejandroDaniel531tu diceds soy Americano o soy mexicanos? Colombiano? Etc Los de Los estados unidos dicen se llaman americanos hasta gente de otros continentes les llaman haci
@@JoseSanchez-sd7ct the whole concept of the americas comes from the colonizers. What term would the natives use?
Up the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church!! I’m proud of being Spanish and Native American heritage! I love our Hispanic and Catholic culture!! Viva la Hispanidad!! 🇪🇸 ✝️ ❤️
Great job!
I am only 28% Native American but I feel closest to this part of my heritage. I remember an item on the news where someone had accosted a Navajo man and told him to go back to his own country! I felt physically sick when I heard that. It's going to be a hard journey to stop the stereotyping on this continent. I wish Odilia well and hope things will change.
14:52 😂 that got me dying LMAO, interesting fact: Frida Kahlo profits off of indigenous people regalia
@@MissCleo24- That means nothing, she had Indigenous maids. She was not connected to her “Indigenous side” and Indigenous people are not homogenous, she was profiting off of Tehuana Zapotec women.
@@MissCleo24 SHE WASN'T INDIGENOUS
Yes i can relate, when i was brought to las vegas as a kid i could not eat fast food i would starve myself until i got home and eat fry eggs and beans
Low key I need this loop longer
BUT, a lot of so called Latin persons, solely because Spanish is their primary language, are in fact Indigenous.
God bless her!
:) my father is Purepecha, my mother is mestizo.
I’m Mexican and on the race questions on any forms I alway put Indigenous American. I am mestizo but since I can’t choose two things sometimes, I would like to be represented in the Indigenous American race. I am white but do not look totally European. I look like both European and Indigenous American so it’s very complicated for me on those questioner’s about race.
If you are brown an Originally from north or south America you are native to the land
For one, don't use the word mestizo. You're using the wrong word to describe what you are.
Mestizo is an old word used to describe a select caste system in the 1500s+. Unless you're still living in the 1500s and in that caste system, then go right ahead.
Very true my wise friend!@@vNightSuNv
@@vNightSuNvpeople can call themselves whatever they want.
@@1KingFisher they sure can... but doesn't mean it's true or legitimate.
As an Indigenous North American, Comanche and Maya Tzel, born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, 100% Chicano, but I understand all humans are actors and audiences, so I am a Latino in my USA 🇺🇸 and act accordingly to advance humanity. Latinos are Indigenous Peoples with any Western Christian European ancestry, by hook or crook... To all relations, present.
I've seen this in my predominantly "Latino" neighborhood many times. I'm able to recognize an indigenous person from south of the border almost right away, but they're often lumped in with the mainstream. Happy she's bringing this to light.
Well fhe problem is that Latinos ARE indigenous as we have Indigenous roots and usually 25% or more. This is enough to be considered to live on a reservation in the states. The problem comes is when the Spanish erased the language and culture from the indigenous side. Hence why people identify as Mexican as they do not know where their indigenous blood came from.
bringing to light the problem of people not being able to differentiate non indigenous mexicans from indigenous ones? seems pretty nitpicky to me
@@seanwhite201 who cares aren't all of us equals?
@@maggie6100 uhh because these people get so offended when you accidently call them mexican like this woman is here and want to make a big deal out of everything instead of kindly correcting someone and even if they keep accidently calling you mexican, who cares, are you really gonna get all worked up over that
Not all Indigenous Latino people are “from south of the border.” But I get your point.
My mom’s grandma was chichimeca ❤ I wish I can ask about the heritage but it’s lost in blood .
It’s mostly because I don’t speak Spanish, but we don’t hear enough from indigenous south americans. Both North and South American countries today are a result of European colonisation, but they seem to show very different attitudes towards the fact.
They feel insult to call themselves native or indigenous. This is how they discriminate Indigenous community
@@TruthTeller8888 no its because we're our own race and we acknowledge our Spanish ancestry just as much.
@@javiervega1065 and that how much you are colonized… even Azeteca called themselves as Spanish in Mexico because they are so discriminated
@@TruthTeller8888 full blooded Aztecs don't even exist in mexico anymore, you really aren't very bright are you?
@@javiervega1065 well mr. Brightest, stop bs if you don’t know anything, what is full blood Azteca btw.? Mayan in Chiapas are not full blood.? Tarumara in sirra de Tarumara are not full blood.. and only reason Mexican says their descendants are Spanish because they want doesn’t want them to be identified as native which they believe is insult. Specially whitexican who influence Mexican.
Well spoken Odilia.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
You have my support. Skydancer Whitewolf.
Love it. Feel so good after hearing her speaking
As a Latino I do not want to be labeled Indigenous! The feeling is mutual.
@@hectorr6299 you're not a latino, you are a mixed person. Latinos are the Spanish and the Italian people.
That's how us Polish-Spanish-Iranian-Kuwaiti people feel. Stop labeling us as white.
I agree, prejudice is unethical & immoral.
So when native Americans were slaughtering each other before any European arrived, what do you call that?
I am afro latino i am proud of my heritage although I wish I was more intact with my native side as we all are my family is from oxaca, guerreo, Nayarit
You have the right to keep your culture , but class struggle unites all workers against the bourgeois class.
Same thing we latino are navite American 🥰
Wait wait, but when Mexico own Cali and New Mexico there were tribes there and when Americans came they claim that land and they called those ppl native Americans but if you were connected to Mexico what would that make those tribes…
U S. Natives know the difference who's native and who's not and most Mexicans know too my coworkers knew I was was more Mexicano than other mestizos my grandmother was full blood native Mexican from Chapala Jalisco coca nahuas tarascan
I’m going to be that uncomfortable person and say, that she didn’t learn Spanish but she learned another colonizer language, which is further removed from the identity of the country where she was born in.
I understand her plight, I am Mexican of indigenous descent and I only speak Spanish and English, some Italian and Portuguese but I have not learned an indigenous language.
That is I believe what we should do first.
Wrong, the word “Mexican “ comes from the word “Mexica “, which is what the Aztecs called themselves.
Mexicans are indigenous and Mestizo. Mestizos have indigenous and Spanish blood.Most mestizo have more indigenous DNA than Spanish.
But, especially the last 25 years, Mexico has had a lot of immigrants. So, who knows what the Mexican DNA will be like in the next few generations.
As of now , Mexican DNA leans towards Native American.
The pipiles of El Salvador are direct descendants of the Mexica(Aztec). The Toltec also made a great influence in Mesoamerica, not to mention the mother culture of Mesoamerica( the Olmec of Mexico).
The real Latinos are Italians.
Latinos/Ladinos but yes!
Pretty much. Latin comes from Italy and Italian (along with Sardinian) is the closest language to it.
nope, latino comes from the shortening of latinamerican
No they aren't
@@ash3972And where does the latin from latin America come from 😂
Many forget that "latin america" is also a eiropean colony like USA. Canada Australia New Zealand. It is a spanish portugues italian colony
You know I can appreciate and understand your feelings and thoughts. But what we all have to be careful to understand is that our differences and separation does not also cause reverse discrimination to what you term as the white man or even the European. That is very complicated. If you were to study history in depth, anyone, you would understand this. The very Spanish that came and colonized were themselves technically mestizo and more. For Spaniards their ancestry is mixed with the Native Iberians and then add about another 10-12 colonizations and mixing. So the old saying is that history repeats iteself. Spaniards were the only Europeans that even mixed with the indians, the other Europeans kept to themselves. That is why the Northern European, Central European went into Spain to clean out what they deemed as inpure blood lines. They wanted to make Iberia into what they wanted. They did not succeed. All cultures that are deep in tradition and have not mixed retain their pride, whether you are Native to the land of Mexico or an Iberan or Guanche that is native to Spain. Pride is Pride. We need to make sure though our pride does not become a form of Ethnocentrism or we do not fully know what other cultures went thru and we only repeat false tales or leyendas negras..that is not good either.
The entire continent of Europe was once Pagan and very connected to Nature, much like the people living in the Americas before the Spanish came. The indigenous White Europeans were subjected to forced religious conversion under threat of death by Christian colonizers. (Christianity is a Middle Eastern religion it is not European). Pagan temples were burned down, Pagan libraries were burned down, Pagan priestesses and priests were mass murdered. Nearly every race has been a victim of colonization and the destruction of their culture and tradition, including European Whites.
The way I see it... Mexico is a big mix of races and cultures. You can proudly be zapoteca and Mexican at the same time. You dont have to be upset if people doesn't get your particular etnic group. Be Mexican... Be proud.
Sorry, I can't agree. The " LATINO " and "HISPANIC" label are offensive to all Mexicans, and all Native Americans.
I don't know one single person that identifies with Latino or Hispanic. but if you are born in Mexico you are Mexican. If your father and your mother come from Russia but you are born in Mexico, you are Mexican, not Russian. If you want to label yourself with your Native American ancestor's tribal name, it's up to you, it's your choice. I'm a mix of Native American, African, Spanish, European. I identify as Mexican.
Exactly. It’s offensive to everyone
I like ❤😂🎉🎉😢/ love her philosophy!
I’ve always hated that word Latino and Hispanic
I've always embraced it
@@javiervega1065 if ur of European descent there’s nothing wrong with that
@@cr1slop3z ¿Qué tiene de malo lo Hispano?
Está en nuestra sangre, nuestros nombres y apellidos, nuestro idioma, nuestra religión, nuestra arquitectura, los nombres de nuestras ciudades. Es parte fundamental y esencial de nuestra cultura.
@@Aaron-et8ig si eres de España te lo creo
@@cr1slop3z No soy de España, soy de Ecuador.
Mi apellido es Bonilla, vivo en Guayaquil, una ciudad fundada por españoles, mi familia materna es católica y somos mestizos, hablamos español.
I liked your arousing speech Odelia. Shtio su” l from san Dionisio ocotepec, Oax.,México.
I am proud to be Hispanic! I am proud of Hernan Cortez and Francisco Pizarro. I am proud to be a Spanish speaker. I am proud to be Catholic. I am mixed. Proud Mestizo. Que Viva la Conquista! Viva Mexico! 🇲🇽 Viva España 🇪🇸