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Native America Calling: The complexities of Mexican Indigenous identity
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Indigenous identity is viewed differently by the Mexican government. There aren’t registered tribes but there are autonomous Indigenous communities.
Indigenous Mexicans self-identify, come from Indigenous communities, speak an Indigenous language and practice traditional and cultural ways.
How that translates across the border and in U.S. Indigenous communities is complicated.
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