Are Navajo originally Native Mexicans?

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Don Colibri

This is a tough question indeed. Rather than attempt to exterminate the native races like the US did, in Mexico the Spanish interbred with the Mexican aboriginal races, producing what were originally called "mestizos" or mixed race. After 500 years the term mestizos has fallen out of favor and today is considered pretty much a racist term.

Today's Mexicans are a mix true, but the Mexican race is about 75% aboriginal so that makes Mexico the largest and most powerful aboriginal American nation in the world. As Mexicans are mostly indigenous then they would certainly be racial cousins (if not brothers) of peoples like the Navajo. As Mexico did have sovereignty over the Navajo lands before it was stolen from them by the white Europeans in the US, I suppose that yes, a very good case could be made for the claim that the Navajo were indeed "Native Mexicans."

(The majority of Mexicans today would certainly accept that argument, I'm absolutely sure that a Navajo visiting Mexico will get a much better reception than a "paleface!")

lpaganus

No, they would always be Navajo, no matter who controlled the territory.

big bubba

First of all Navajos were roaming the south west of the USA and north west of Mexico before the white man put a border to it, so they were here before Mexicans, Spanish, English, or Angloamericans.,

So donÂ´t confuse your self, besides Americans are all the people who lives on the continent, not only the USA...Brazil, Mexico, Cuba are in America.

Native American race is for me a terminology use for all the indigenous people who live here in the American Continent.

In fact the word "Navajo" IS A SPANISH NAME, probably given by a misionary on the time Spain was exploring the land. DinÃ© should be the real name for that nation

So yes in one time the Spanish consider all the west of the USA part of Spain, so in one time Navajos were Spanish according to the Spanish, Not the Navajo, In one time the Mexicans consider the Navajo Mexicans, but not the Navajo, and today the Navajo consider their selves part of the USA, but probably their grand parents didnÂ´t consider their selves part of the USA.

garrisonbight

they are a plains tribe and were only forced onto the Window Rock reservation less than 200 years ago by the U.S. Government. They roamed Western Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and North West Texas historically.

Wheely

The modern border between the US and Mexico is man made. Before then, the Native people of modern Northern Mexico and Native people of the Southwestern US would interact with one another, therefore the two groups share a similar cultural and ethnic background. In fact that, there are many tribes today that reside on both sides of the border. Navajos have the same ties with their "Native American" neighbors to their immediate West or East as they do with their "Native Mexican" neighbors to the South.

Robert B

No Siberians same as the Indians in what is now Mexico.

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