{"id":55629,"date":"2018-01-29T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55629"},"modified":"2018-02-11T04:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:02:03","slug":"indian-slavery-once-thrived-in-new-mexico-latinos-are-finding-family-ties-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55629","title":{"rendered":"Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It."},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-01-28<\/p>\n

Simon Romero<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSt. Thomas the Apostle Church<\/a> in Abiqui\u00fa, N.M.<\/a>, a village settled by former Indian slaves, or Gen\u00edzaros<\/a>, in the 18th century.
\nCredit Adria Malcolm for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

ALBUQUERQUE<\/a> \u2014 Lenny Trujillo made a startling discovery when he began researching his descent from one of New Mexico\u2019s<\/a> pioneering Hispanic families: One of his ancestors was a slave.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know about New Mexico\u2019s slave trade, so I was just stunned,\u201d said Mr. Trujillo, 66, a retired postal worker who lives in Los Angeles<\/a>. \u201cThen I discovered how slavery was a defining feature of my family\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trujillo is one of many Latinos who are finding ancestral connections to a flourishing slave trade<\/a> on the blood-soaked frontier now known as the American Southwest<\/a>. Their captive forebears were Native Americans \u2014 slaves frequently known as Gen\u00edzaros<\/a> (pronounced heh-NEE-sah-ros) who were sold to Hispanic families when the region was under Spanish control from the 16th to 19th centuries. Many Indian slaves remained in bondage when Mexico<\/a> and later the United States<\/a> governed New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The revelations have prompted some painful personal reckonings over identity and heritage. But they have also fueled a larger, politically charged debate on what it means to be Hispanic and Native American…<\/p>\n

…Many Hispanic families in New Mexico have long known that they had indigenous ancestry, even though some here still call themselves \u201cSpanish\u201d to emphasize their Iberian<\/a> ties and to differentiate themselves from the state\u2019s 23 federally recognized tribes, as well as from Mexican and other Latin American immigrants.<\/p>\n

But genetic testing is offering a glimpse into a more complex story. The DNA<\/a> of Hispanic people from New Mexico is often in the range of 30 to 40 percent Native American, according to Miguel A. T\u00f3rrez<\/a>, 42, a research technologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/a> and one of New Mexico\u2019s most prominent genealogists.<\/p>\n

…\u201cI have Navajo<\/a>, Chippewa<\/a>, Greek and Spanish blood lines,\u201d said Mr. T\u00f3rrez, who calls himself a mestizo<\/a>, a term referring to mixed ancestry. \u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019m indigenous any more than I can say I\u2019m Greek, but it\u2019s both fascinating and disturbing to see how various cultures came together in New Mexico.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The revelations have prompted some painful personal reckonings over identity and heritage. But they have also fueled a larger, politically charged debate on what it means to be Hispanic and Native American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,14646,8,3015,820,20],"tags":[27974,11016,27973,27975,27976,3873,2640,11707,2327],"class_list":["post-55629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-religion","category-usa","tag-gregorio-gonzales","tag-kim-tallbear","tag-lenny-trujillo","tag-miguel-a-torrez","tag-miguel-torrez","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-york-times","tag-simon-romero","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55665,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55629\/revisions\/55665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}