{"id":14741,"date":"2011-07-05T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2018-06-09T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T00:57:24","slug":"hispanics-identifying-themselves-as-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14741","title":{"rendered":"Hispanics Identifying Themselves as Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hispanics Identifying Themselves as Indians<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2011-07-03<\/p>\n

Goeffrey Decker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAt a festival June 26 in East Elmhurst, Queens<\/a>, people from the Tlaxcala tribe<\/a> of Mexico<\/a> wore masks parodying the Spanish conquistadors.
\nUli Seit for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A procession of American Indians marched through Sunset Park, Brooklyn<\/a>, on a weekend afternoon in early May, bouncing to a tribal beat. They dressed in a burst of colors, wore tall headdresses and danced in circles, as custom dictated, along a short stretch of the park.<\/p>\n

But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala<\/a>, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.<\/p>\n

The event was Carnaval, an annual tradition celebrated by tribes indigenous to land that is now Mexico<\/a>. And despite centuries of Spanish influence, the participants identify themselves by their indigenous heritage more than any other ethnicity.<\/p>\n

When Fernando Meza is asked about his identity, \u201cI tell them that I am Indian,\u201d said Mr. Meza, a parade participant from the Tlaxcala tribe. \u201cThey say, \u2018But you\u2019re Mexican.\u2019 And I say, \u2018But I\u2019m Indian.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Meza represents one of the changes to emerge from the 2010 census, which showed an explosion in respondents of Hispanic descent who also identified themselves as American Indians…<\/p>\n

…\u201cThere has been an actual and dramatic increase of Amerindian immigration from Latin America,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 C. Moya<\/a>, a professor of Latin American history at Barnard College…<\/p>\n

…\u201cWe are descendants from the original people of Tlaxcala,\u201d said Gabriel Aguilar, a Ditmas Park<\/a> resident. \u201cFive hundred years ago, there is not territory known as Mexico. It\u2019s just tribes.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…\u201cHispanic is not a race, \u201d said Mr. Quiroz, whose ancestors were the Quechua<\/a> people, of the Central Andes<\/a>. \u201cHispanic is not a culture. Hispanic is an invention by some people who wanted to erase the identity of indigenous communities in America.<\/strong>\u201d…<\/p>\n

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