I'm no judge, I think part of Redbone is sort of Mexican American, XIT might have been more Native American but again, I don't know for certain.
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@TomSea I dunno,but I DO know that you have to be VEWWY,VEWWY careful who you try to discuss this with due to the racial sensitivity of the subject amongst some of those whose origins are from south of our border. There are a large chunk of those people who will insist they are Spanish/His or Her Panic,and they will want to fight you if you insist they are descendants of some "dirty Injuns" instead of directly descended from Castilian Don. Doesn't matter how brown they are or how black their eyes are,they are Spanish Caucasians,dammit!
I learned this right after I moved to Colorado from a friend everybody called "Mexican" (and it didn't offend him in the slightest),but who was probably at least 75 percent southwestern American Indian. There may have been a white man in the woodpile somewhere generations ago,but all evidence of him had long since disappeared. He warned me in a friendly way to be careful about referring to people Mexicans despite them speaking Spanish and looking just like stereotypical Mexicans. Truth to tell,I never really understood the difference or why anyone would be upset about it. It is what it is. Roll with the punches and move on with your life.
Then you sometimes run into another segment from South of the Border who want to insist their ancestors were members of American Indian tribes,and they want their reparations.
Seems like almost nobody wants to confess to being a Mexican,despite there not being one single damn thing being wrong about being born a Mexican,an American,a Chinaman,or anything else. Get back with me on this if you know of anyone who was given a choice before birth of what he or she would be,and I might be convinced to change my mind about this.
Who you ARE is who YOU MAKE YOURSELF OUT TO BE DUE TO YOUR OWN SELF-DETERMINATION. If you were born with brown skin and black eyes and think that is somehow shameful,that is on YOU,not ME.
A moment of confession here. I am 25 percent Tuscarora Indian,and the one group of people on the whole planet that I despise the most are "Reservation Indians" that do nothing but lay around on the reservation,getting high and drinking bootleg whiskey while waiting for their next checks to come in and bitching about "the white man".
I understand this situation has changed somewhat since the creation of tribal gambling casinos,but they are just higher paid parasites if they do nothing with the money the tribe pulls in from that other than spend it. Life is too short to spend it sitting on your asses. Get out and DO something interesting!