Since the Spaniards that came over to the New World in the 16th-17th century were soldiers and sailors-young, single men-they started interbreeding with the Native American women right away-horndog Hernan Cortez himself led the charge by taking the daughter of a chief who opposed the Aztecs as his mistress to cement that alliance-(she was called La Malinche and later founded/became abbess of a convent)their son is regarded as one of the 1st kids of that mixed ethnicity of Spanish/Native American, born in the New World.
My own ancestors came to Mexico from Spain over 400 years ago, and about 100 years later a bunch of them saddled/packed up for Texas and New Mexico. Since they were just farm/ranch class/peasants and not nobility, they intermarried with peasant class Native Americans and Mestizos from the gitgo-so all of our tribe are Mestizos, even those of us with the Basque look-light skin, light eyes, blonde or red hair and all.
After 500 years, you’d have to look really hard to find either a pure Native American/Indian or a pure Spaniard who was born on the American continent-even though some want to claim to be pure Native or Pure Spanish, the genetic testing says it isn’t so-except for a few tribes in the Amazon Jungle-but they-wisely-don’t seem very interested in paying coyotes to bring their kids to the US illegally...
I realize I didn’t make myself clear...
I don’t mean the ones who do have Spanish ancestors...
I mean the ones who are obviously short dark skinned non-”Hispanic” looking...with Aztec/Mayan features and noses...there are a lot of very prominently Aztec looked people in the “immigrant” videos ...
If they did have any Spanish blood it was back during Cortez’s time...
not everyone born in Mexico or South America have Spanish ancestors...
and a lot of the “Hispanics” are not “Hispanic” at all...
Very interesting.I have some black foot Indian heritage great great grand-mother. She was full blood Black Foot from the Dakota area’s.
I love history.