An indigenous
person of the Western Hemisphere, which includes the North and South American continents, as well as the West Indies, and even Greenland. Believed to have crossed over the Berring Strait during the last Ice Age. They produced great and technologically advanced civilizations such as the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Incas, and many others.
Also known as American Indian, Amerind (also their language group), Amerindian, & Native American Indian etc
Most (north of the Rio Grande in particular) were killed off by various means.
The
people of
Mexico, ranked by wealth and influence (at least for the first 3), from least to most, are somthing like 20% Native American, 70% Mestizo (a mixture of
White, typically Mediteranian Spanish European, and Native American), 7%
White\European, and 3% Other (typically of or containing African and or Middle Eastern Ancestry)
So my point is, when
people immigrate from
Mexico to the USA (EEUU), whether legally or illegally, they are oftentimes just returning to the land that they had always occupied, millenia before Columbus or Leif Erikson
north of the Rio Grande, most Native Americans were killed off by European diseases or by Euro-American imminent domain (which not only involved getting kicked off their land, but also the coldblooded murder of the men, the rape of the women, the sending of the
children off to fascistic orphanages and boarding schools where their culture was systematically suppressed so they could instead speak
english and follow protestant christianity)
Most of the
people in Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and El Salvador are Native Americans.
