Why do Native Americans who inhabit the U.S attempt to distance themselves from Mexicans or Indians from?

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Mexico, dont they realize they all are related and that all Indians of the Americas were descendants from the Clovis Culture and other ancient Western Hemisphere Indians?

Also why do some mestisos attempt to distance themselves from Mexicans saying they are descendants from Spaniards or Native Americans from the U.S.

I say a Mestiso is a Mestiso regardless if the white blood in him is from English ancestors or Spanish ancestors, same goes for the Indian part, regardless if their Indian ancestors were from North or South America.

I have heard the rhetoric from U.S Native Americans, and many Arizonians and New Mexicans. What they fail to understand due to their ignorance is that Bloodlines cannot be denied

Oglala,

Your words are absurd, how on Gods green Earth, would you expect U.S Indians who built Teepees and banded in small tribes to kill Aztecs and Mayans that had Millions of citizens and very Advanced societies and built huge Pyramids with very advanced infrastructure, and what the heck would they be doing going all the way down there to fight some U.S Indian Tribes?

Answer 1

It´s a tribal issue. Native Americans don´t feel any kinship towards Mexicans because their customs, culture and system of beliefs are totally different, not to mention the fact that they come from different tribes. Regardless of the fact that they came from the same origin doesn´t mean they should automatically defend each other as "blood brothers". Just because I have English or German ancestry doesn´t mean I feel a special kinship and obligation to defend those countries or that I have a right to move in on them just because we share a common ancestry. The same goes for the issue between Mexicans and Native Americans.

The definition of mestizo is a child of native and Spaniard blood only, so a child of native and English blood is technically not a mestizo.

Answer 2

Don't all the people living in Alaska to South America prior to the Europeans have a common bloodline with the Asian or Oriental peoples in the far east.
Wasn't there a migration across the Bering Strait prior to global warming. Perhaps you and the Chinese should be considered allied. I don't think they would like that either. But maybe as a common enemy of the U.S.

Would the Apache or the Comanche Tribes have welcomed you as common ancestors prior to the Europeans.

Answer 3

I'm not Indian, but I can easily understand why Indians from America don't feel that they're exactly the same as those from other countries. They may have had the same origins at one time, but living under different cultures for long periods have their effect.
You can go farther and say that all Eurpoeans are the same because they all originated from the ancient Aryans. Still there are some differences between Russians and Italians, for instance.
I really don't understand how you feel any one group is distancing itself from any other group. Just what do you want them to do ? If everyone says, " Okay, we're all from the same bloodline". What do you want next ?

Answer 4

It seems to me that you are overgeneralizing. I was a co-director of a Native student union on a University campus. We made a Strong effort to include Mexican people in our organization because we recognize our common roots.

Before colonization the Indigenous people of the U.S. , Canada, and Mexico didn't have borders to seperate them. They would trade and have contact with one another. Even now there are tribes that cross both borders.

Why do some people prefer to as you say "deny their roots" or believe another version of events? Because of oppression. The history of oppression is brutal and disgusting, it is not suprising that some people wouldn't want to connect with that. I don't necessarily think that's the right way to go but it is still understandable. And oppression still does exist today.

Answer 5

I know MANY Native Americans who know Mexicans so you can't speak for me and how dare you! Mestizos are mixture of Spanish and either Aztec or Maya. BUT there are millions of Aztec and Maya who didn't mix with the Spaniards.

Answer 6

they are not related. i don't care what any one says. the Aztec and Mayans have nothing to do with the native americans. you want to hear something interesting? all human life has been traced back to an african tribe that still lives to this day. they have features of all races.

Answer 7

*rolls eyes* Attempt? Back in the old days if any Toltec, Mayan, or Aztec entered my tribe's territory to settle, we would have killed them or taken them prisoner. There were no alliances with the old tribes of Mexico before the whites arrived. The newly bred and trained meztisos did NOTHING to help the native tribes after the white men came, but they attempted to colonize the southwest on behalf of Spain. It's funny now, that meztisos want to be "Native Americans", and want our support.

My anger towards illegal immigration is not because of c = ultural differences. It is because illegals are smuggling themselves and drugs across my property (I reside in AZ), and have been doing this for years now. I want it to stop.

Added: Oh please, your whining question is absurd. You need to do some more reading on native tribes of the US, if you think all of us were in small bands. There were millions of people and thousands of tribes throughout N. America before the whites arrived, not only in Mexico. My people, the Great Sioux Nation, and their allies, were intolerant of invaders, and would have fought any tribe, regardless of their building-block pyramids and moon calendars that's just a fact.

When meztisos attempt to piggyback on Native Americans for unearned "rights" in the US in spite of history, and claim land that was never theirs as justification for invading the United States illegally that is offensive to me. As long as illegals are still trespassing across my property, I will continue to to be anti, and turn them over to the border patrol.

MrRock - Good stereotype, and they say the pro-side isn't racist. Illegal tequila drinking meztisos kill alot of American citizens with their drunk driving. Why even go there?

Answer 8

May be we should call the \m mongols since they are mongols descendants???..

They want to distance themselves from illegal idiots that are trying to use "Indian" card to get to US From mexico. They are annoyed with them and I see their point.

Answer 9

I'm a mestizo and i don't wanna be confused with a fire water drinker from the res.

Answer 10

Perhaps because they truly are indigenous to the USA while the others are not.