Would I have Mexican ancestry?

Question

I have Navajo ancestry and the Navajo used to live on Mexican lands before the US bought the land, so wouldn't I have Mexican ancestry?

Answer 1

Not necessarily.

Not to mention, you should say, to be correct, that the Mexicans, same as with Canadiennes, U.S. folks, and all the rest, live on Indian (in your case, Navajo) lands, NOT the other way around.

I don't know how specific DNA testing is for various Indian tribes, but "Mexican" WILL show up on a DNA test. (My DNA tests shows Mexican ancestors, as well as various Indian tribes, Eskimos and Innuits.)  I used www.familytreedna.com, but there are others.

Since you said Navojo and the Spanish settled in the Southwest so long ago, I would think your best bet (for paper records) would be the old land grants and pueble records.

Good luck!

Answer 2

probably

have u ever heard of the movie that states

we can all trace our roots to africa??

i think every culture is united in some way

and yours seems highly plausible

Answer 3

YUP

Answer 4

Si. You are my bro.

Answer 5

Maybe, but not necessarily.   If your ancestors were on the land, BEFORE Mexican jurisdiction, AND IF they never intermarried with anyone of Spanish/ Mexican ancestry.. then you would simply have Navajo ancestry.  Not Mexican. I doubt that you would be able to locate proof back that far without records, but it is possible.

An analogy would be Anglo settlers (of English or other European ancestry), who moved to what is now Arizona or New Mexico, before those areas were under American rule. Their ancestry would still be from (wherever their ancestors were born), and they would not become Mexican. They could have had citizenship, if they were granted it.. but their heritage would still not be from Mexico.

Ancestry, by its definition, is always concerning where your ancestors came FROM.. and not necessarily where they wound up living.  It MIGHT involve where the person lives, but that is not an absolute.