#all i know is they were fishermen & lived in Cabo where my mom & her parents were born & grandpa told her about them
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"Huh why is this part near the border of the US & Mexico so barren-"
I don't think people on the West Coast understand how much denser and multipolar the US is east of the Mississippi
#not to mention how the mexican citizens who chose to STAY in their ancestral lands during the Mexican Cession of 1848 were treated like shit#by the new American settlers who would round up native mexican kids into boarding schools along with the other native american children#and we all know how those turned out#ppl gotta remember that mexico is like 80% mixed native & european blood & for a LONG time native mexicans feared mixing w/ europeans#since the moment a mixed child was born they were taken to boarding schools or europe & taught to be 'ideal mestizo' citizens#it was a whole fucking caste system in mexican society for centuries but nobody ever talks about that outside of mexico#and a grim reality that native mexican women would be married to spanish men to systematically 'filter out' the native blood#long tags#im rambling but i was literally talking to my parents about this yesterday & how even 500 years later we STILL have like 50/50 native blood#in the DNA results we had a few years back because we ALL look pretty fucking pale/spanish#after 500 years of mixing its still there but also knowing the tribes my grandparents' grandparents had were treated like this#i can never forget about the pericu even if theyre long gone & they have only the name & the blood but no tribe#all i know is they were fishermen & lived in Cabo where my mom & her parents were born & grandpa told her about them#his mother told him as a child & its just a long line of word of mouth because they were supposed to be erased but blood doesnt lie
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