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An estimated 80 percent of Mexico's indigenous people live in extreme poverty.
The General Education Act promotes teaching in the national language (Spanish), which most Indians do not speak.
Hypocritical much, Conquistadors?
The government has perpetuated disorder and paramilitary activity by maintaining a draconian military presence in many indigenous areas, where property rights and land ownership laws disadvantaging indigenous peoples have sparked rebellion. The Chiapas rebellion was spearheaded in 1994 by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Human Rights Watch reported aggressive human rights violations by the Mexican troops sent to the area; more than 150 people died in battle as the troops moved in. Approximately 80,000 Mexican army personnel continue to patrol the area, in an effort to keep the EZLN contained. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson called the presence of the military in Indian communities "heavy and oppressive."
And please offer your thanks to the Texas Rangers that saved your ass from more of it. And while you are at it, go ahead and apologize to the Apache for the Mexican Apache wars.
They knew that Comanche and Kiowa raiding parties would come soon, like schools of barracuda on the hunt, following the infamous Comanche War Trail from Texas’ High Plains into Chihuahua’s desert lands to steal livestock, plunder homes, kidnap children and young women, kill and scalp men and older women, and win battle glories and honor. When the raiding parties appeared on the trail, the Mexican sentinels would torch their wood piles to raise signal fires and smoke columns to warn of the coming danger, the human thunder from the north. The word rippled from north to south across Chihuahua. Frantic settlements would post guards, gather arms, shelter families, secure homes, and pen and tether livestock.
I know very few words of my native language.
Once very sought after during WW-II.
My great Grandfather was a Code Talker.
I think someone in this forum was Comanche. He had some fascinating details. I was told that my grandfather still had enough native American blood in him that was noticeable. Never met him since he died before I was born. Wish I knew which tribe.
I think someone in this forum was Comanche. He had some fascinating details. I was told that my grandfather still had enough native American blood in him that was noticeable. Never met him since he died before I was born. Wish I knew which tribe.
Everybody has an Indian somewhere in their family if you let them tell it.
I keep wondering with all the killing and pushing around of the Indians, where did all these white folks find time to procreate with them?
Everybody has an Indian somewhere in their family if you let them tell it.
I keep wondering with all the killing and pushing around of the Indians, where did all these white folks find time to procreate with them?
Just like how Prof. Gates had to break it to AA that no, they did not have "Indian up in their family," huh?
But anyway, 95% of Native Americans in North America actually didn't die because they were "killed" by the "white man" and actually died because of diseases, you'd be surprised to know that people mixed?
Mexico is one of those countries that, like how a lot of the world views the United States:
"The people are great. The government is awful." (Coincidentally, this is usually the opposite of how many of us view Canadians, lol).
Mexico is a barely functioning state. How dare it cast dispersion on the US when it has to send 10%-20% of its population abroad because it cannot take care of its people? How hypocritical that it restricts the largely indigenous Guatemalans and others from Central America (who, unlike Mexican claims to the USA, actually DO have an ancestral claim to the same Mayan lands in Mexico).
Just once I'd like to hear a President call Mexico out on the hypocrisy when Mexico starts its moralizing.
Everybody has an Indian somewhere in their family if you let them tell it.
I keep wondering with all the killing and pushing around of the Indians, where did all these white folks find time to procreate with them?
When the Spaniards hit the shores of what is now North Florida/Southern Georgia, they noted the native people had mixed within their ranks, fair skin, as lily white as theirs. Blonde and red hair, with blue and green eyes.
The Cherokee Nation.
Mexico is one of those countries that, like how a lot of the world views the United States:
"The people are great. The government is awful." (Coincidentally, this is usually the opposite of how many of us view Canadians, lol).
Mexico is a barely functioning state. How dare it cast dispersion on the US when it has to send 10%-20% of its population abroad because it cannot take care of its people? How hypocritical that it restricts the largely indigenous Guatemalans and others from Central America (who, unlike Mexican claims to the USA, actually DO have an ancestral claim to the same Mayan lands in Mexico).
Just once I'd like to hear a President call Mexico out on the hypocrisy when Mexico starts its moralizing.
wouldn't that be awesome?
probably never happen though.
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