Are Mexicans ,Native Americans too?

Question

Natives were nomads!

A member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.

Hmmm Native!

I doubt that a border will keep them from being native! LOL

So what leo girl is telling me the american indians are not native , but just u.s. nationals!

Good one! Not!

I heard there is a bunch of mexicans in u.s. reservations with hispanic last names!

Cheeroke Rose ummmm nevermind! LOL

So far Constance M has this one!

Are you guys blind! LOL

A bush family member (avatar) regardless of what happen they are still native! Stop with the excuses!

Nationality and ethnicity is the same! Especially if you are native american mexican!

I would like to see the diffrence in looks between a mexican native american and a native american! hmmmm

Like it or not chief is a fact!

American is not excluisve to United Statians LOL Cheeroke Rose

Poetic Justice just shhh LOL

The Old Man (avatar) Excellent!

No Cheeroke Rose just pointing out your stupidity!

hmmm! I am surprised you cannot tell when somebody is talking dumb to a dumb answer!

Answer 1

Define a mexican?
Is it one who lives in Mexico?
Indios?
Decendents of Spanish stock?
Blacks?
In Mexico there are more native tribes, blacks and people of mixed ancestry than Spanish blood.
The so called Spanish Mexicans have always been a minority in Mexico.
For that matter define Native americans?
Native Amerians if used to bunch the original peoples before white invaded and lived from Canada to Tiera Del Fuego then yes they are Native Americans.
This bunching by the ruling elites is done by them to control not differentiate. In the United States we have Sovereign Nations of differing so called Indian stocks yet we call a Souix, Yakima, Cherokee all Native Americans.
WHY?
Could it be to minimize their independence, the Great White Father looking after his children?
If Native American was trul meant to be all inclusive of Americas the white elite would be the minority and by the way it is going they will be even in the United states within 40 years.
that does not mean life will still not be run by finacial tyrants, as a peoples race is no hinderance to human propensity towards greed.

Answer 2

I'm trying to find info on why most people refer to US citizens as Americans. America is a continent. Columbians are South Americans. Mexicans are North Americans, just like Canadians and US citizens. Why are only the latter referred to as American?

Answer 3

There are three kinds of nomads, hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads, and peripatetic nomads. Nomadic hunter-gatherers have by far the longest-lived subsistence method in human history, following seasonally available wild plants and game. Pastoralists raise herds and move with them so as not to deplete pasture beyond recovery in any one area. Peripatetic nomads are more common in industrialized nations traveling from place to place offering a trade wherever they go.
As far as who is classified as Nomads---Roma (Gypsies)
Kalderash
Gitano (AKA Cale)
Manush (AKA Sinti)
Romnichal
Irish Travellers


Native Americans did set up resident often for years so no they were not nomads. Unless the resources were gone they stayed.

Are Mexicans, Native Americans too, you asked---no if their Native American than they are not Mexicans (their Native American) and visa versa. They are what they are- no more no less.

That's right - their different.- Nice try though. I am sure some could debate the question---as far as I see now the answer is no I would like to know how some would even think that.

Answer 4

It really depends. Since America consist of two big @ss continents and central America, I guess the Native people of Mexico (before the Spanish arrived) are Native Americans. However, in the USA Native Americans are considered people who are a member of an Amerindian reservation in the USA. You also have to prove your "blood quanta" or Indian heritage in the USA to qualify for any federal grants. It's all about the money. A lot of Mexicans are Natives by blood, but the USA government isn't going to allow Mexicans to profit off of their Native bloodlines. And anyway, a lot of Mexicans consider themselves white on the US census but only a few consider themselves Indian, even when they look like full-blooded Indians. Why is that?

Answer 5

Only if they are enrolled in a Federally Recognized tribe. But if you follow another method of thinking(which I find funny) anyone born in America could be considered Native American. However, it is all about the bloodline.. so, actual tribal members I would say NO!

Answer 6

Actually, all "native" peoples (including mexicans, indians and eskimos) come from Asian peoples that crossed a land bridge from Mongolia/Asia into what we call Alaska, and travelled down as far as South America. Some time later, Samoan descendents came by boat to the pacific side and bred with the south american natives. There are also some reports of egyptians that came to the atlantic side and bred with the Incas - hence their knowledge of calendars/pyramids/and they way they look.

Only in the past few hundred years has any spanish or english or french or portuguese blood has been introduced!

Answer 7

Mexicans are native to the North American Continent.Just as all others are.that were born here.are.(and not all "natives" were nomadic in nature) You can be native American and not be of Indian ancestry. Native has many meanings .
I am a native American too.I was born within the boundaries of this Continent also..as were my ancestors except the ones that came here in 1702 from Germany.

And the reason for you question is ......?

Answer 8

of course they are. (as much as i get tired of hearing the argument that we are the "United States of" America) it is true, America is the continent. if they are native to the Americas they are native Americans.

But not only that, many American indians (of the US) mixed with those who are now Mexico.

Many tribes like the Apaches are from near the US Mexico border, and would likely have members on both sides.

There have been ties found between the members of indigenous tribes in Mexico and those in the US. For example the Mississippian indians of Illinois had the same traditions and both worshiped the sun. There have been books published stating that the Mayans may have traveled north (when thought to have died out) and become this "new" tribe. Or that a relative of both tribes may have taught traditions and religion to both.

Lets not forget the theory that they are not 'Native' to America at all, since they supposedly came from Asia.

In short, yes they are the most native of us all.

Answer 9

They may be natives (other than the land bridge bit) of NORTH America, but not of America. We know which tribes were here when the borders of our country were set, and the tribes that straddled the Mexican border got special provision.

Answer 10

no. They are not. They are native to the lands south of the jurisdiction of America and therefore not Native Americans. Sounds like a poor attempt at semantics to justify the invasion and denigration of America.