[Alicerichardson]

I would love to hear more history on the Aztec, especially the beliefs they have and are they connected to the people of Spain. This is so interesting.:)

[1_optimistic]

I am also aware that there are those who have Native American Ancestry and refuse to accept that fact….as if being Indian is beneath their Hispanic/Latino/Spanish heritage. That’s something how some Europeans in the past not only brainwashed us Indians in the Southeastern States but all down in the Americas:mad:

Erica Lewis

[mrspatino]

Hi Alicerichardson, well I guess you could say the Aztecs or Mexica are conected to Spain, not by choice, the missionaries from spain made being Indian the worst thing Via through faith unfortunetly, The spanish, inter married, raped ect ect, to convert the Mexica. When the conquistadors came the Mexica thought they were or one of them was one of their leaders/prophets who left and vowed to return, this was a big factor as to how the whole thing started. More on this later

[Red Metis]

Hmm–this is all very interesting. I’d like to hear more about the connection with the Aztec to other cultures in what is now North America. Some think that some of the oral histories of the Chata/Choctaw seem to indicate that they were Maya who migrated to SE US. Other histories say that they were always there in Mississippi.

[1_optimistic]

Per Wikipedia:

“Tarascan is a word designating an indigenous ethnic group of Mexico and the language that they speak. The term is gradually becoming obsolete, instead being replaced by the ethnic group’s own name for themselves: P’urhépecha (or P’orhépecha) for both the people and the language. However the historical P’urhepecha built a state which is normally referred to as the Tarascan state because that is the way it appears in the early colonial sources.

The name “Tarascan” (and its Spanish-language equivalent, “tarasco”) comes from the word “tarascue” in their own language, which means indistinctly “father-in-law” or “son-in-law”. The Spanish took it as their name, for reasons that have been attributed to different, mostly legendary, stories. Curiously, the Nahuatl name for the Tarascans was “Michhuàquê” (“those who have fish”), whence the name of the state of Michoacán.”

I would like to know more about the Tarascan people from Mexico. Apparantly, I have a significant connection with those Indigenous Americans, per my DNA Test.

Does anybody out there know more about those people. Also, did they migrate to the Southeast of USA?

Thanks in advance!

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