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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Reply to comment by Wonderful_Mud_420 in TIL the number of people who identify as Native American on the US Census increased by 86% from 2010 to 2020. by substantial-freud
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.