And the "Indian Maiden" was a mixture of a Spaniard having his way with a Spaniard or an Asian.
But, actually, the whole "we were here first" line of argument completely misses or avoids the point (probably both), and that is that the U.S. is a nation, a nation of laws and that the border separates one nation from another or others.
These LaRaza people are just ranting about their racist dislike of anyone who isn't of thier racial type. "Indiginous" literally is not real in the sense that all humans migrated from somewhere else and in the case of the two Americas, have done so many times over. But the VERY FIRST migrations, as in the very oldest skeletons found and known to modern science (which are very, very old, far predating the "native american" population, who arrived much later) are those remains of people who were lighter, taller and more fair than what and who the 'native american' of both north and south are known today to be.
Thus, "LaRaza" is just nuttiness based upon insisting on elevating one type of human in modern times to some status of ownership of all that is in the Americas, that they be non accountable to nations and laws of those nations, and that they somehow merit this status because of their present day appearances and ancestry.
Problem is nonsense because they are not even of ancestry that was, literally, "here first," but far later than several other migrations of humans. There isn't even any sense to their claims beyond them beating their chests over nonsense.
I respect all human civilizations. I don't demean the many who have come and gone in the Americas. But for people who are largely Spanish by ancestry and Asian by even longer past ancestry to think they have ownership to an entire two continents is nonsense, pure nonsense. It's just...nonsense.
It's also proof that they themselves are, in fact, "European."
Thus, if we were to even take their argument seriously, that the Americas "are not Europe," they PROVE THAT IT IS BY THEIR VERY PRESENCE: to those who think that way, that their statement (America is not European) is credible, it's proven uncredible by the very ancestry of those who make that claim.
You speak much truth. Of course, the left would rather ignore their own prejudices. The stuff that has been written about the mayor can get pretty creepy.