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Anonymous asked in TravelMexicoChihuahua · 2 years ago

Are Mexicans Native American?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    No The treaty of 1957 settled that issue. Up till or before that time. They could claim to be Native Americans. Come onto the reservations as Native Americans.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    No they are not. Native American (mind the capitals) is LEGALLY defined as "being an enrolled member of at least one of the 566 acknowledged *USA-based* tribes"

    Source(s): several actual Native Americans on Y!A
  • 2 years ago

    Yes, they are generally the generations of both Spanish and Native Americans.

  • 2 years ago

    About half of Mexicans are of European - mostly Spanish - ancestry. Most of the rest are of mixed ancestry, and about 15% of Mexicans are considered to be of indigenous ancestry.

  • 2 years ago

    They could be. Mexico is in the Americas and about 21.5% of Mexican citizens are indigenous to the continent.

  • Susie
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    Depends on where they were born. I’m native to Indiana.

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