Op-Ed: 500 years after Cortés' conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico's Indigenous roots live on (via latimesopinion)
, what the Aztecs called themselves. Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the devastating impact on the people and the land that Hernán Cortés’ defeat of the Aztecs wrought.
Although Spanish is the dominant spoken language, the country has 68 official languages, 63 of which are Indigenous from some 350 variants and dialects. Over the past decades, Indigenous peoples from Mexico such as Mixtecos, Zapotecos, Rarámuri, Yaqui and Purépecha, among others, have migrated to the United States.They are called “immigrants” though they have linguistic and other connections with U.S.-based Indigenous peoples that span tens of thousands of years.
In 1954, the year I was born, we lived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. But when it was time for my birth, my mother walked across the International Bridge to El Paso, Texas, to have me. Even though there’s a 173-year-old border there, we went from “our land to our land.” Even though I’m “mixed” when it comes to my lineage, I don’t use the word mestizo. The term comes from the Spanish-imposed caste system of determining a person’s value based on how much Spanish, Indigenous or African blood they had . Besides, so-called mestizosMy recent DNA test indicates I’m half Native American , around 40% from the Iberian Peninsula , and the rest from other Europeans except for close to 5% from west and south Africa. That sounds about right.
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