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Wonderful_Mud_420 t1_j78u2jl wrote

Everyone forgets about the Latinos. They make up a large proportion of the population and many have started to reaffirm their native roots. And yes many are mixed but it doesn’t dismiss their ancestral heritage.

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Dmiraawh t1_j79fbf5 wrote

It’s really encouraging to see people wanting to learn about their Indigenous ancestry! It’s definitely a small portion at least within the Mexican community, but there are some of us who have begun reclaiming our native ancestry particularly over the last decade. It’s not uncommon at all to go back 2-3 generations and find they still spoke an Indigenous language, lived in an Indigenous community etc..So I definitely wonder how much this cultural movement (albeit relatively small within the Mexican community alone), has played a role in the rise of Native american identification here in the US.

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