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Before you Oh Brother, you have to understand what history has done to the native people. Many people like yourself give that type of answer before thinking. The Indians of this area were subject to a scourge much worse than than the murderous union soldiers,the Spanish!!! Only those who surrendered were tagged and thus later able to be what is now called federally recognized and able to apply for federal assistance. Texas, under Maribeau Lamar, exterminated as many indians as they could and ran off the rest. Many had to change their identity to Mexican or Tejano in order to survive. Many non indian people never had to run for their lives!!
My 6th great grandfather was born at Mission San Jose in 1741. Listed as Pamaque Indian. His wife, my 6th great grandmother is listed as a Lipan Apache. My 5th great grandfather is listed as Pamaque in 1758 in some records, then later as Spaniard. Further down the line around 1813, we were Tejano. After the fall of the Alamo we were still afraid to admit to our true indigenous identity. There was a bounty on our heads!!! Many of us survived and here we are today as something else. My grandpa is Mexican on his birth certificate, and my father's says white!!! I almost started a riot at the hospital when they put Hispanic on my daughter's birth certificate!! And at her school, I had to go to Northside ISD to find out who kept changing my daughter's race to Hispanic!!!! The secretary told me " She has a Hispanic last name"!!!!! They did that for 4 years in a row!! Now she is in middle school and it's started all over again!! Oh, by the way, I'm not looking for a handout either. I have two masters from Fullerton State, served two tours in Viet Nam, and never asked for anything but respect for who I AM!!
And I am thankful that I am an American before I am anything else!!!
But back to the OP. I hope that people will complete the census truthfully if they do know their heritage, it's very important and I'm afraid that the population in this city has been understated quite a bit.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, Mission-Sundancer. When the census comes around, I will be checking off white, native American and black, unless they have a "mestizo" or "criollo" box!
so the census was accusing you of being mexican? LOL All the Census Forms I've done have Hispanic, Latino, Metizo and I havent seen Anglo for a while
Not accusing....they wanted me to state we were Mexicans. I had checked off Hispanic but they wanted our origin and I couldn't give it to them any further than Texas.
I'm 100% European American (and can trace it back to the 1790 census in Massachusetts) so there is no problem here. I will proudly check the 10000% white box.
Whatever you end up selecting, please make sure you send in that census packet (and don't get upset because it doesn't say what you want it to) this one document ends up funding many health, education, government, and transportation projects for the next 10 years. And if you don't send in those documents your neighborhood won't get the funds it deserves for those projects.
I can't get anyone to Ellis Island, but Ancestry.com was a great resource for us. I don't know if it has been mentioned here (and if it has I'm sorry) the SA library does allow its users free access to Ancestry. If your family isn't Texan it can be a great resource.
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I will proudly check the 10000% white box. 
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