{"id":55666,"date":"2018-02-11T04:07:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55666"},"modified":"2018-02-11T04:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:07:25","slug":"i-have-navajo-chippewa-greek-and-spanish-blood-lines-said-mr-torrez-who-calls-himself-a-mestizo-a-term-referring-to-mixed-ancestry-i-cant-say-im-ind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55666","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI have Navajo, Chippewa, Greek and Spanish blood lines,\u201d said Mr. T\u00f3rrez, who calls himself a mestizo, 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"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Many Hispanic families in New Mexico<\/a> 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<\/a>, 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><\/blockquote>\n

Simon Romero, \u201cIndian Slavery Once Thrived in New Mexico. Latinos Are Finding Family Ties to It.<\/a>\u201d The New York Times<\/em>, January 28, 2018. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/28\/us\/indian-slaves-genizaros.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…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 ties and to differentiate themselves from the state\u2019s 23 federally recognized tribes, as well as from Mexican and other Latin American immigrants. But genetic testing is offering a glimpse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27975,27976,3873,2640,11707,2327],"class_list":["post-55666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","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\/55666","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=55666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55667,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55666\/revisions\/55667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}