Very stoked to see an important conversation taking place. As southern and northern natives begin to share nuance with each other, we can appreciate our differences as well as our similarities.
As a reconnecting native (Nahuatl and Wixxarika ) this video makes feel heard and seen. I’m relearning My indigenous language and proud to be From los primeros pueblos de México!
It’s NAHUA, not NAHUATL. And seen by who? Reconnecting with what? As a Mexican, I can tell you that the iberians were cruel and sadists, but some natives were full TYRANTS and not far behind, such that even other indigenous groups like LA CONFEDERACION DE TLAXCALA, were sick and tired of the Mexica/Nahua/Aztec empire of terror, and decided to create alliance with the Spaniards in order to defeat them. Our culture is mixed, European and indigenous North American blood and culture run through our veins, and that’s what makes us unique, we are not Spaniards, we are not Natives, we are the result of leaving behind the horrors from the societies that founded Mexico behind, and keeping on repeat the good aspects of old Spain and the good old mesoamerica.
Most latinamericams have indigenous ancestry. I still can't believe how shocked many americans are when they go to Spain and people look "like Italians, French or Greeks". What did you guys expect?
Right its crazy to me that people dont understand that and i have indigenous roots from my Moms maternal line From the Colombian Carribbien Coast (Barranquilla) from the Mokana People i believe And Puerto Rico(Indigenous) from my Dads Maternal Line i think because i dont know his maternal haplogroup and my paternal lines are European Middle Eastern African and North African / West Asian European 62.3 percent Spanish and Portuguese 59.3 African 17.3 % 11.3 percent West African Indigenous American 14.5 %
@@Luritsas At the same time my aunt went to Spain and was shocked they looked just like us Mexicans. At least us from the center and north like Zacatecas, Jalisco, Michoacán, etc
@@Duquedecastro Are there Mexicans who are primarily white and therefore look more like Spaniards? Yes. Is that the norm? Not at all, not even in the areas you mentioned.
@@Luritsas Why would I make that up? You obviously haven’t visited many places in Mexico. You can easily look up places like Los Altos de Jalisco. It’s surprising you would even think that since a good chunk of Mexicans I have seen even in the US have light eyes and blonde, red, or brown hair. That’s not even what makes them look Spanish because many in Spain have dark hair and brown eyes.
This is such an important topic I would love to see a longer more in depth conversation with north, central, south and caribbean indigenous folks discussing this. Thank you @perolike
I don't know if anyone can relate, but growing up here in the States, after you check the box, "Are you a Hispanic or Latino?" I always struggled when they asked me next, "What race are you?" cause I am LATAM Indigenous, but I feel like when they think Indigenous, it's "U.S Indigenous." I talk to other friends of mine who are LATAM Indigenous, and they tell me they check "white" to not bring up any confusion.
Mexico and Natives of the United States still have ties to each other, like the Kickapoo there is part of the tribe in Coahuila and they have a connection to tribe in Kentucky. If the tribe hadn't had moved to Mexico they wouldn't have many of the traditional ceremonies that were lost to the Kickapoo that stayed in the states. The Apache I found some were still living in Mexico, and then there is some of course Yoemi aka Yaqui living in Mexico with a federal tribe in Arizona. There is much deeper connection with each other then one thinks.
Many of those native peoples live in US states with Spanish names. They used to belong to the Spanish empire. The US promoted an independent Mexico to ensure they were too weak to win a war, and with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Thirteen colonies took over 50% of Mexican territory.
Central America also has indigenous people that came from Mexico, my grandpa was from a Nahua community in Nicaragua. My DNA test traced my indigenous heritage back to 3 countries. 23% Indigenous Americas - Nicaragua 9% Indigenous Americas - Mexico 3% Indigenous Americas - Costa Rica
Most Latinos are indigenous or have significant indigenous blood. But through Spanish colonialism have been taught to not embrace or identify with being native. Terms like Latino and Hispanic are Eurocentric and can be harmful.
I’ve never seen us taught not to embrace our Indigenous heritage. In Mexico, even during the European dominated culture of the Porfiriato they still built monuments to Indigenous national heroes. Everyone just runs with what they hear other people say. Do your own research.
PURE BS, the spanish never taught them that. Also, you do realize most latinos descent from Spaniards just as much right? Their own ancestors did whatever you claim Spaniards did.
This whole Spaniards did this as if modern latinamericans didn't descend directly from them is so flawed. You don't get to cherrypick. Embrace all your ancestry or none of it but you don't get to remove yourself from Spaniards and what they supposedly did to native americans when you are BOTH.
@@Luritsas Exactly. I’m sick of everyone trying to take our European heritage away from us. They’re are ancestors more than they’re modern Spaniard’s ancestors!
My friend invited me to a pow wow and a nice Navajo lady came to me and asked me if I was Navajo too, I told her I wasn’t but from South America to which she said “so, family from the south” 😊. BTW my parents are both from the Andes and have indigenous ancestry and my dad(who has more European blood than indigenous)still speaks/understands the native language of Quechua.
Wow this is amazing to see, I've been doing my research as a Puerto Rican individual for the past month on Native history throughout the Americas so much as to now doing the work to trace back my family tree to my Native ancestors. I love to see the conversation topic reach more audiences. Peace✨ 🇵🇷🪶
Too many Mixed Native Americans complaining about Mixed Native Americans identifying as native but would give Elizabeth Warren a go around in this comment section
Respectfully, why not try talking to an indigenous person who is born and raised in Latin America who actually comes from a native/indigenous community? It’s very nice that this young man self identifies as “native” but he is clearly he has not lived the experience of campesinos/comunidades rurales. No need to speak on their behalf just because you’re wearing long braided hair. And FYI, I’m a latina born and raised in the Andes, with a native last name and I wouldn’t dare to speak on behalf of others. Again, respectfully 🙏🏾
Yes, it is annoying seeing these recently self identify native mestizos talk on behalf of those natives who were born and raised in their indigenous communities, their way of life, view and mentality is different from his whether people like him want to admit it or not. So it is important to give them a voice and a platform already, and for the erasure to stop, there's millions of full natives still living their ways in their own communities that they could've easily interviewed. I would love to see them interview different indigenous communities within Canada, US and Latin America.
@@kkorova I agree, there are multiple indigenous people who have study and made the effort to better the standing of their cultures within these societies. Both living inside "Latinoamerica" and, heh, Turtle Island. Migrants or living in the same land their ancestors did.
It is not our own doing as brown/indigenous folks who were not raised in spaces that are considered more rural/true to indigenous spaces. We were colonized and many of us are split apart from our true identities. There are many factors that come into play for this happening. Yes the man speaking may or may not have been raised in a true indigenous space, but please do not let that erase from the fact that people of “Latin American” descent do indeed have a great amount of native/indigenous blood. Being raised in the US as descendants from “Latin American” countries is a different experience. Not to take away from the harsh realities that indigenous communities face in their own lands back home. Many of us in the US are facing issues of racism and being looked as less than. Even immigrants that are crossing the border today (some with full indigenous features), and yet they are seen as less than. Although their blood comes from first nations people of the Americas. Only to be treated different because of borders. So I would vouch we have conversations with those raised in “true” indigenous spaces and with those of us who are learning respectfully.
If you think just because we are detribalized that we have it easier than tribal people, you are lying to yourself. I spoken with many tribal people who have not experienced the racism and violence I have. Being indigenous is not just about culture, it is also a racial experience, and we can not divest the importance of our ancestral features and blood from the term indigenous without rendering it meaningless.
@@carlitosway5748are you dumb?? He’s still native even he’s mestizo. Thanks to mestizos the native population is high. Also mestizos live native life everyday it rooted into the culture. Smart one
Being brown/indigenous isn’t dependent on if you belong to a tribe or if you live in a village or if you come from a big city, or what language you speak. Being brown/indigenous is in your blood and DNA, and on your skin. Just as it is for any other race or people.
This isn't true, because being indigenous is not a race, it is a class based on your relationship to colonialism. Believing it is a race means that you ignore the history assimilated people of descended from indigenous people (called mestizos or ladinos dependent on your region) have caused to surviving indigenous communities. Look at the massacres of the Shining Path and the Peruvian govt in the 90s, look at the massacres in Guatemala in the 60s to the 80s. If you want any more proof of this, go to any village where an indigenous identity is dying, and ask the teenagers if they are indigenous. They will tell you "no, my grandparents were, I'm not." They don't learn the language, learn the customs, or even participate in the traditions. They often identify solely as "campesinos." As people descended from those who were in indigenous communities, we have a responsibility to reconnect with those communities, but to not identify in a way that could legitimately bring them more harm by siphoning away resources meant to help them. Call yourself "indigenous-descendent", or even "native" (in some cases it has a different connotation from indigenous) but don't call yourself indigenous unless you are part of a living community.
The government of Tanzania for example would love nothing more than to use this type of rhetoric to justify acts of colonialism and genocide against tribal peoples like the Maasai
@@arthurmoran4951what about people who are genetically native to the americas but not culturally indigenous ? This is a huge portion of people in the americas
I am Mexican. I have Olmec, Maya, Aztec (i.e. Mexica), and Purepecha DNA. I have 45% Native American DNA, and nobody can take that away from me! My Native American ancestors built phenomenal civilizations. I also have European, so what? I have Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, British, and Northern European DNA. Mexicans know who our ancestors are and we are not losing sleep over it! In fact, I look a lot like Linda Ronstadt when she was in her 20's. I have the quintessential Mexican features.
I’m not sure we can trace to the Olmec like we can to the Maya and Aztec. That’s sort of like saying someone descends from Vikings or Sumerians. It’s way back. It’s just a probability, not fact. Also, I would not say that Linda Ronstadt is quite quintessentially Mexican, but I think I know what you mean, she has rounded features that show she’s mixed.
actually many mexican like me can't trace the majority of our ancestors since we got so mixed from diferent indigenous and europeans long time ago, is not easy to trace or care to registrer that information especially from common people
@@rabioramos1796 yes it does,the bones of a Olmec queen in Veracruz México has been found and scientists were able to put together how she looked like and how a lot of easter Mexicans and central Mexican share a lot of DNA with the olmecs. Yes we have advanced technology that can trace back DNA to the olmecs.
I don't see a difference, a line was drawn that divided us where indigenous north of the line were colonized to speak English and south of the line Spanish.
I have Nahua ancestry, my parents are from Nicaragua and my grandpa was from a Nahua Nicarao community. Im over 1/3rd indigenous (35%) and my DNA test traced my indigenous heritage back to 3 countries. 23% Indigenous Americas - Nicaragua 9% Indigenous Americas - Mexico 3% Indigenous Americas - Costa Rica
Minor correction but important, I think. Indigenous refers to civilizations that existed before colonization, not before white people. New York Natives are people born and raised in New York State but, that doesn't mean they have any indigenous heritage. It's an important distinction. Also, anytime people talk about Latin cultures or use words like pueblos, they are not talking about indigenous American cultures. Latin cultures are indigenous to Europe, specifically those countries surrounding Italy, the source of the Latin language. Indigenous cutlures existed independently of the Spanish, Italian, French, British, African, and every culture that has influenced the Americas. They developed entirely unique language systems and cultures. Often though, indigenous cultures are difficult to distinguish because many of their societies were destroyed by colonists and their descendants like Spanish conquistadors and post-colonial beliefs in the United States like manifest destiny. This is particularly true in Latin America. A name like Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh though is clearly not European. The man looks white or European but, he could also pass for a member of a tribe indigenous to North America. There's a much better point in that observation. Some indigenous North Americans are and were white long before white Europeans arrived.
Posting this on the main comments so people can see an understand this. Being indigenous is not a race (at least not in the Latin American case, the US has a different but related set of issues I cannot speak to), it is a class based on your relationship to colonialism. Believing it is a race means that you ignore the history assimilated people of descended from indigenous people (called mestizos or ladinos dependent on your region) have caused to surviving indigenous communities. Look at the massacres of the Shining Path and the Peruvian govt in the 90s, look at the massacres in Guatemala in the 60s to the 80s. If you want any more proof of this, go to any village where an indigenous identity is dying, and ask the teenagers if they are indigenous. They will tell you "no, my grandparents were, I'm not." They don't learn the language, learn the customs, or even participate in the traditions. They often identify solely as "campesinos." As people descended from those who were in indigenous communities, we have a responsibility to reconnect with those communities, but to not identify in a way that could legitimately bring them more harm by siphoning away resources meant to help them. Call yourself "indigenous-descendent", or even "native" (in some cases it has a different connotation from indigenous) but don't call yourself indigenous unless you are part of a living community.
Sorry, they are. They speak a native american language. They are the descendants of black people who escaped slavement (or where never slaved) and the local population of the Caribbean coast of Central America. They are indigenous. They speak an arawakan language, if not mistaken.
@tiltiktekwani7562 the arawaken language doesn't come from africa. It comes from the indigenous people tainos or arawak and the weren't black to begin with.
This worldview does not apply to Amerindians of Mesoamerica or Mexico. Look at a Tzompantli. That is not peaceful or living with nature. Look at the words they used like "chichimeca". And they were not all one because Purepuecha is a language isolate unrelated to "Uto-Aztecan", and the people who spoke that language were an enemy of the Aztecs. This clown looks like they come from the movie Smoke Signals, not Apocalypto.
I agree that this idea of idilic pre Columbian societies is not factual, but which region of the world was devoid of war and violence in any part of the world? Apocalypto is also not historically accurate, just as the peaceful societies myth. And you know, cultures change? The spiritual traditions of Mesoamerica had and still have a very close relationship with nature if you actually look into it (tho there are plenty more things about them).
@@PerolikeCIA what's the diference about being mixed? being indigenous doesn't have to do with your ancestry but your culture, stop dividing people by the wrong term race
Not everyone partakes in your "colonialism" worldview. Mexico is still majority Amerindian. There are also lots of people in Mexico that have a huge chunk of Amerindian ancestry yet their maternal haplogroup is European or Austronesian (like me, yet I have 0% Austronesian ancestry showing). Mexico is its own thing now, its own unique melting pot. Mexico already had its first "indigenous" president, but they were from Oaxaca not Mexico City.
"white people"... My Bing search bar literally has an article linking to how to make paella for "Hispanic Heritage Month" as if its an "ethnic" food and not a "white European" food, and the irony is that Spain has a higher HDI than France, Italy, Poland, and the German country Czech Republic yet these countries or ethnic groups don't have an "ethnic" month of celebration
México is NOT majority Amerindian, hahaha. The only countries in the Americas that are majority indigenous are Guatemala, Perú and Bolivia, if I'm not mistaken. Also, that "indigenous" president was certainly the descendant of mixtecs, but he was openly dismissive of those roots. DNA doesn't means much if racism is rampant, where most people of power, both politically and economically are white euro-descendants or ladinized people. This is true of most of the Americas, so I'm not trying to do any personal attacks, but being blind to those facts is kind of ridiculous.
@@PerolikeCIA I disagree. Blood means nothing if you were raised within a culture. I think there lies the problem: a mostly European looking person who was raised in an indigenous community is more indigenous than a full blooded amerindian who only knows of Greece and the heights of the Romans. Now, if you're a mestizo (like me) and you try to claim indigenous without learning from said communities and talk from a place of authority, I agree with you. But blood percentages are not significant to culture. We don't speak the language, we don't know the stories, we actively dismiss those with that knowledge, even if they look like us. Mexico is mostly mestizos, yes. But is the nation of the creoles. They are their founders. Theirs is the language we speak. How we conceive government. There's barely any higher education in indigenous languages.
Very stoked to see an important conversation taking place. As southern and northern natives begin to share nuance with each other, we can appreciate our differences as well as our similarities.
I would love to hear a discussion on the difference of claiming indigeneity between US and LATAM
It also varies from country to country in Latin American
As a reconnecting native (Nahuatl and Wixxarika ) this video makes feel heard and seen. I’m relearning My indigenous language and proud to be From los primeros pueblos de México!
It’s NAHUA, not NAHUATL. And seen by who? Reconnecting with what? As a Mexican, I can tell you that the iberians were cruel and sadists, but some natives were full TYRANTS and not far behind, such that even other indigenous groups like LA CONFEDERACION DE TLAXCALA, were sick and tired of the Mexica/Nahua/Aztec empire of terror, and decided to create alliance with the Spaniards in order to defeat them.
Our culture is mixed, European and indigenous North American blood and culture run through our veins, and that’s what makes us unique, we are not Spaniards, we are not Natives, we are the result of leaving behind the horrors from the societies that founded Mexico behind, and keeping on repeat the good aspects of old Spain and the good old mesoamerica.
@@Tequilacargadito Many Mexicans are still native though even if most Mexicans are mestizo
Most latinamericams have indigenous ancestry. I still can't believe how shocked many americans are when they go to Spain and people look "like Italians, French or Greeks". What did you guys expect?
Right its crazy to me that people dont understand that and i have indigenous roots from my Moms maternal line
From the Colombian Carribbien Coast (Barranquilla) from the Mokana People i believe
And Puerto Rico(Indigenous) from my Dads Maternal Line i think because i dont know his maternal haplogroup and my paternal lines are European Middle Eastern African and North African / West Asian
European 62.3 percent
Spanish and Portuguese 59.3
African 17.3 %
11.3 percent West African
Indigenous American 14.5 %
@@Luritsas At the same time my aunt went to Spain and was shocked they looked just like us Mexicans. At least us from the center and north like Zacatecas, Jalisco, Michoacán, etc
@@Duquedecastro Are there Mexicans who are primarily white and therefore look more like Spaniards? Yes. Is that the norm? Not at all, not even in the areas you mentioned.
@@Luritsas Why would I make that up? You obviously haven’t visited many places in Mexico. You can easily look up places like Los Altos de Jalisco. It’s surprising you would even think that since a good chunk of Mexicans I have seen even in the US have light eyes and blonde, red, or brown hair. That’s not even what makes them look Spanish because many in Spain have dark hair and brown eyes.
@@Luritsas It IS the norm in areas I’ve mentioned. I’m going to go with you never having traveled around Mexico, easy to tell.
More Indigenous content please! ❤
This is such an important topic I would love to see a longer more in depth conversation with north, central, south and caribbean indigenous folks discussing this. Thank you @perolike
I don't know if anyone can relate, but growing up here in the States, after you check the box, "Are you a Hispanic or Latino?" I always struggled when they asked me next, "What race are you?" cause I am LATAM Indigenous, but I feel like when they think Indigenous, it's "U.S Indigenous." I talk to other friends of mine who are LATAM Indigenous, and they tell me they check "white" to not bring up any confusion.
I just leave that box blank.
And then the white racist politicians use those numbers to prove they are the majority.
Always check indigenous 💪🏾
@@ichrised same. my grandfather was indigenous, and I'm nearly half indigenous american. I'm over 50% non european. I dont ever check white.
Mexico and Natives of the United States still have ties to each other, like the Kickapoo there is part of the tribe in Coahuila and they have a connection to tribe in Kentucky. If the tribe hadn't had moved to Mexico they wouldn't have many of the traditional ceremonies that were lost to the Kickapoo that stayed in the states. The Apache I found some were still living in Mexico, and then there is some of course Yoemi aka Yaqui living in Mexico with a federal tribe in Arizona. There is much deeper connection with each other then one thinks.
Many of those native peoples live in US states with Spanish names. They used to belong to the Spanish empire. The US promoted an independent Mexico to ensure they were too weak to win a war, and with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Thirteen colonies took over 50% of Mexican territory.
Many southwestern tribes are the same ppl northern Mexicans, such as the ones you mentioned and many others
Central America also has indigenous people that came from Mexico, my grandpa was from a Nahua community in Nicaragua. My DNA test traced my indigenous heritage back to 3 countries.
23% Indigenous Americas - Nicaragua
9% Indigenous Americas - Mexico
3% Indigenous Americas - Costa Rica
That’s great that there is finally more visibility for the indigenous community in the US meanwhile the Mexican flag has an indigenous symbol on it 👍🏼
Most Latinos are indigenous or have significant indigenous blood. But through Spanish colonialism have been taught to not embrace or identify with being native. Terms like Latino and Hispanic are Eurocentric and can be harmful.
I’ve never seen us taught not to embrace our Indigenous heritage. In Mexico, even during the European dominated culture of the Porfiriato they still built monuments to Indigenous national heroes. Everyone just runs with what they hear other people say. Do your own research.
PURE BS, the spanish never taught them that. Also, you do realize most latinos descent from Spaniards just as much right? Their own ancestors did whatever you claim Spaniards did.
This whole Spaniards did this as if modern latinamericans didn't descend directly from them is so flawed. You don't get to cherrypick. Embrace all your ancestry or none of it but you don't get to remove yourself from Spaniards and what they supposedly did to native americans when you are BOTH.
@@Luritsas Exactly. I’m sick of everyone trying to take our European heritage away from us. They’re are ancestors more than they’re modern Spaniard’s ancestors!
Or maybe they are conquistadors. Remember, their great grandpas were Spanish
My friend invited me to a pow wow and a nice Navajo lady came to me and asked me if I was Navajo too, I told her I wasn’t but from South America to which she said “so, family from the south” 😊. BTW my parents are both from the Andes and have indigenous ancestry and my dad(who has more European blood than indigenous)still speaks/understands the native language of Quechua.
So you're white
Wow this is amazing to see, I've been doing my research as a Puerto Rican individual for the past month on Native history throughout the Americas so much as to now doing the work to trace back my family tree to my Native ancestors. I love to see the conversation topic reach more audiences. Peace✨ 🇵🇷🪶
Are you not part Taino?
Love to hear youngsters so intelligent and on point. Very refreshing
Too many Mixed Native Americans complaining about Mixed Native Americans identifying as native but would give Elizabeth Warren a go around in this comment section
Respectfully, why not try talking to an indigenous person who is born and raised in Latin America who actually comes from a native/indigenous community? It’s very nice that this young man self identifies as “native” but he is clearly he has not lived the experience of campesinos/comunidades rurales. No need to speak on their behalf just because you’re wearing long braided hair. And FYI, I’m a latina born and raised in the Andes, with a native last name and I wouldn’t dare to speak on behalf of others. Again, respectfully 🙏🏾
Yes, it is annoying seeing these recently self identify native mestizos talk on behalf of those natives who were born and raised in their indigenous communities, their way of life, view and mentality is different from his whether people like him want to admit it or not. So it is important to give them a voice and a platform already, and for the erasure to stop, there's millions of full natives still living their ways in their own communities that they could've easily interviewed. I would love to see them interview different indigenous communities within Canada, US and Latin America.
@@kkorova I agree, there are multiple indigenous people who have study and made the effort to better the standing of their cultures within these societies. Both living inside "Latinoamerica" and, heh, Turtle Island. Migrants or living in the same land their ancestors did.
It is not our own doing as brown/indigenous folks who were not raised in spaces that are considered more rural/true to indigenous spaces. We were colonized and many of us are split apart from our true identities. There are many factors that come into play for this happening. Yes the man speaking may or may not have been raised in a true indigenous space, but please do not let that erase from the fact that people of “Latin American” descent do indeed have a great amount of native/indigenous blood. Being raised in the US as descendants from “Latin American” countries is a different experience. Not to take away from the harsh realities that indigenous communities face in their own lands back home. Many of us in the US are facing issues of racism and being looked as less than. Even immigrants that are crossing the border today (some with full indigenous features), and yet they are seen as less than. Although their blood comes from first nations people of the Americas. Only to be treated different because of borders. So I would vouch we have conversations with those raised in “true” indigenous spaces and with those of us who are learning respectfully.
If you think just because we are detribalized that we have it easier than tribal people, you are lying to yourself. I spoken with many tribal people who have not experienced the racism and violence I have. Being indigenous is not just about culture, it is also a racial experience, and we can not divest the importance of our ancestral features and blood from the term indigenous without rendering it meaningless.
@@carlitosway5748are you dumb?? He’s still native even he’s mestizo. Thanks to mestizos the native population is high. Also mestizos live native life everyday it rooted into the culture. Smart one
Being brown/indigenous isn’t dependent on if you belong to a tribe or if you live in a village or if you come from a big city, or what language you speak. Being brown/indigenous is in your blood and DNA, and on your skin. Just as it is for any other race or people.
This isn't true, because being indigenous is not a race, it is a class based on your relationship to colonialism. Believing it is a race means that you ignore the history assimilated people of descended from indigenous people (called mestizos or ladinos dependent on your region) have caused to surviving indigenous communities. Look at the massacres of the Shining Path and the Peruvian govt in the 90s, look at the massacres in Guatemala in the 60s to the 80s.
If you want any more proof of this, go to any village where an indigenous identity is dying, and ask the teenagers if they are indigenous. They will tell you "no, my grandparents were, I'm not." They don't learn the language, learn the customs, or even participate in the traditions. They often identify solely as "campesinos."
As people descended from those who were in indigenous communities, we have a responsibility to reconnect with those communities, but to not identify in a way that could legitimately bring them more harm by siphoning away resources meant to help them. Call yourself "indigenous-descendent", or even "native" (in some cases it has a different connotation from indigenous) but don't call yourself indigenous unless you are part of a living community.
The government of Tanzania for example would love nothing more than to use this type of rhetoric to justify acts of colonialism and genocide against tribal peoples like the Maasai
there are no "RACES" just colors, being indigenous has to do with your culture
@@arthurmoran4951what about people who are genetically native to the americas but not culturally indigenous ? This is a huge portion of people in the americas
I am Mexican. I have Olmec, Maya, Aztec (i.e. Mexica), and Purepecha DNA. I have 45% Native American DNA, and nobody can take that away from me! My Native American ancestors built phenomenal civilizations. I also have European, so what? I have Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, British, and Northern European DNA. Mexicans know who our ancestors are and we are not losing sleep over it! In fact, I look a lot like Linda Ronstadt when she was in her 20's. I have the quintessential Mexican features.
I’m not sure we can trace to the Olmec like we can to the Maya and Aztec. That’s sort of like saying someone descends from Vikings or Sumerians. It’s way back. It’s just a probability, not fact. Also, I would not say that Linda Ronstadt is quite quintessentially Mexican, but I think I know what you mean, she has rounded features that show she’s mixed.
actually many mexican like me can't trace the majority of our ancestors since we got so mixed from diferent indigenous and europeans long time ago, is not easy to trace or care to registrer that information especially from common people
There is advanced DNA tests and yes Mexicanas can trace back ancestors to the Olmecs, our modern day technology is very advanced.
@@irisfigueroa5249no it’s not. DNA tests doesn’t go that far back
@@rabioramos1796 yes it does,the bones of a Olmec queen in Veracruz México has been found and scientists were able to put together how she looked like and how a lot of easter Mexicans and central Mexican share a lot of DNA with the olmecs. Yes we have advanced technology that can trace back DNA to the olmecs.
Thank you for this because it’s a struggle when you’re trying to reconnect and there’s a lack of resources
Watching on my tablet, the sound is very low.
Growing up in USA made me acutely aware of being native to this continent.
I can hardly hear anything , volume at maximum. All other videos are o.k., this one not, why?
It'll be amazing if Pero Like evolves more into this type of content instead of the joke-joke click bait they have us used to.
I don't see a difference, a line was drawn that divided us where indigenous north of the line were colonized to speak English and south of the line Spanish.
Difference being most people south to such line have indigenous blood but very few do on the north side.
Only true if you ignore the US genocide of the indigenous.
I have Nahua ancestry, my parents are from Nicaragua and my grandpa was from a Nahua Nicarao community. Im over 1/3rd indigenous (35%) and my DNA test traced my indigenous heritage back to 3 countries.
23% Indigenous Americas - Nicaragua
9% Indigenous Americas - Mexico
3% Indigenous Americas - Costa Rica
Hi thanks for sharing and good luck with more indigenous subject matter and good luck with everything
This man is a Mestizo at least, if not Castizo.
Castizo. The man looks greek or something like that.
Most of the natives on reservations in America are Mestizos and Castizos themselves... Your point? @@emersonr7481
most probably mestizo, but being indigenous doesn't have to do with your genetics but culture, at least no outside from the usa
Just a white dude pretending to be indigenous 😂
@@emersonr7481 nah greek , don't think so, there's some indigenous there look closer
Well i have heard stories from US Native Americans being very anti immigration to Latin Americans in general. The irony of it
Latin America is not a thing stop it
of course it is, it's the part of the americas where most people speak latin-based languages.
Why is the audio low
When teotihuacan was in power people far north people far south traded with each other which is why corn and other food reach far north and south.
Wow so many comments is there a full episode? Post it 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
He's mixed 😑
Xiuhtecalt let’s make a song together bro
Minor correction but important, I think. Indigenous refers to civilizations that existed before colonization, not before white people. New York Natives are people born and raised in New York State but, that doesn't mean they have any indigenous heritage. It's an important distinction. Also, anytime people talk about Latin cultures or use words like pueblos, they are not talking about indigenous American cultures. Latin cultures are indigenous to Europe, specifically those countries surrounding Italy, the source of the Latin language. Indigenous cutlures existed independently of the Spanish, Italian, French, British, African, and every culture that has influenced the Americas. They developed entirely unique language systems and cultures.
Often though, indigenous cultures are difficult to distinguish because many of their societies were destroyed by colonists and their descendants like Spanish conquistadors and post-colonial beliefs in the United States like manifest destiny. This is particularly true in Latin America. A name like Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh though is clearly not European. The man looks white or European but, he could also pass for a member of a tribe indigenous to North America. There's a much better point in that observation. Some indigenous North Americans are and were white long before white Europeans arrived.
You know for a fact that "some indigenous people" in the US are white before the Europeans?
latin doesn't have to do with italy but all the roman empire, and latin and latinamerican meant diferent things,
Posting this on the main comments so people can see an understand this. Being indigenous is not a race (at least not in the Latin American case, the US has a different but related set of issues I cannot speak to), it is a class based on your relationship to colonialism. Believing it is a race means that you ignore the history assimilated people of descended from indigenous people (called mestizos or ladinos dependent on your region) have caused to surviving indigenous communities. Look at the massacres of the Shining Path and the Peruvian govt in the 90s, look at the massacres in Guatemala in the 60s to the 80s.
If you want any more proof of this, go to any village where an indigenous identity is dying, and ask the teenagers if they are indigenous. They will tell you "no, my grandparents were, I'm not." They don't learn the language, learn the customs, or even participate in the traditions. They often identify solely as "campesinos."
As people descended from those who were in indigenous communities, we have a responsibility to reconnect with those communities, but to not identify in a way that could legitimately bring them more harm by siphoning away resources meant to help them. Call yourself "indigenous-descendent", or even "native" (in some cases it has a different connotation from indigenous) but don't call yourself indigenous unless you are part of a living community.
Far right mestizaje loving natsee
Garifunas aren't native american imo. Theyre majority of african descent.
no one cares what your "opinion" is. we are talking facts here, they are indegenous
@@Tu51ndBl4d3 they are not indigenous and no indigenous community would see them as such
@@SupaMarioG yes and many indigenous speak Spanish, that doesn't make those indigenous Spaniards and those Garifunas are not indigenous
Sorry, they are. They speak a native american language. They are the descendants of black people who escaped slavement (or where never slaved) and the local population of the Caribbean coast of Central America.
They are indigenous. They speak an arawakan language, if not mistaken.
@tiltiktekwani7562 the arawaken language doesn't come from africa. It comes from the indigenous people tainos or arawak and the weren't black to begin with.
This worldview does not apply to Amerindians of Mesoamerica or Mexico. Look at a Tzompantli. That is not peaceful or living with nature. Look at the words they used like "chichimeca". And they were not all one because Purepuecha is a language isolate unrelated to "Uto-Aztecan", and the people who spoke that language were an enemy of the Aztecs. This clown looks like they come from the movie Smoke Signals, not Apocalypto.
You should be elongating your skull, not growing pony tails.
I agree that this idea of idilic pre Columbian societies is not factual, but which region of the world was devoid of war and violence in any part of the world?
Apocalypto is also not historically accurate, just as the peaceful societies myth. And you know, cultures change?
The spiritual traditions of Mesoamerica had and still have a very close relationship with nature if you actually look into it (tho there are plenty more things about them).
@@tiltiktekwani7562 So do Celtic people like Enya, lmfao. You do know the person in this video is half "American white" right?
@@PerolikeCIA Oh, I'm not defending this dude, I disagreed with your take.
@@PerolikeCIA what's the diference about being mixed? being indigenous doesn't have to do with your ancestry but your culture, stop dividing people by the wrong term race
I clicked thinking this was Mirage... nvm...
None of them look like my elotero or the lady that sells tamales outta her SUV
Maybe because they’re young….
Definitely mixed
@@nenaj1most natives are mixed. Your point?
ancestry or how mixed you are doesn't have to do with being indigenous but culture, stop dividing people from the wrong term "races"
Not everyone partakes in your "colonialism" worldview. Mexico is still majority Amerindian. There are also lots of people in Mexico that have a huge chunk of Amerindian ancestry yet their maternal haplogroup is European or Austronesian (like me, yet I have 0% Austronesian ancestry showing). Mexico is its own thing now, its own unique melting pot. Mexico already had its first "indigenous" president, but they were from Oaxaca not Mexico City.
"white people"... My Bing search bar literally has an article linking to how to make paella for "Hispanic Heritage Month" as if its an "ethnic" food and not a "white European" food, and the irony is that Spain has a higher HDI than France, Italy, Poland, and the German country Czech Republic yet these countries or ethnic groups don't have an "ethnic" month of celebration
México is NOT majority Amerindian, hahaha. The only countries in the Americas that are majority indigenous are Guatemala, Perú and Bolivia, if I'm not mistaken.
Also, that "indigenous" president was certainly the descendant of mixtecs, but he was openly dismissive of those roots.
DNA doesn't means much if racism is rampant, where most people of power, both politically and economically are white euro-descendants or ladinized people.
This is true of most of the Americas, so I'm not trying to do any personal attacks, but being blind to those facts is kind of ridiculous.
@@tiltiktekwani7562 Mexico is majority Amerindian/mestizo, same thing. 100% Spanish is as rare as 100% Amerindian.
@@tiltiktekwani7562 Being dismissive of the roots is the same as a "white person" who gets 1% "indigenous" being embracing of the roots.
@@PerolikeCIA I disagree. Blood means nothing if you were raised within a culture. I think there lies the problem: a mostly European looking person who was raised in an indigenous community is more indigenous than a full blooded amerindian who only knows of Greece and the heights of the Romans. Now, if you're a mestizo (like me) and you try to claim indigenous without learning from said communities and talk from a place of authority, I agree with you.
But blood percentages are not significant to culture. We don't speak the language, we don't know the stories, we actively dismiss those with that knowledge, even if they look like us.
Mexico is mostly mestizos, yes. But is the nation of the creoles. They are their founders. Theirs is the language we speak. How we conceive government. There's barely any higher education in indigenous languages.
"that guy is white/mestizo/castizo" meanwhile half the people on the Rez🙎🏼♀️🙎🏻♀️🙎🏻🙎🏼
ancestry or how mixed you are doesn't have to do with being indigenous but culture, stop dividing people from the wrong term "races"
He's totally forgetting the other part of himself 😂