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Mestizo Defined

The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed Amerindian and European descent. (p. 484)

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Boys' group in Lafayette nurtures potential

Published November 28, 2008, 4:41 pm, Boulder Daily Camera

Once a week, 18 seventh- and eighth-graders in the Latino Boys Leadership Group get to Angevine Middle School in Lafayette an hour early to learn about their past, talk about the present and plan for the future.

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  • National Library Service of Belize: The Mestizo are a people of mixed Spanish and Mayan descent representing roughly 48% of the Belizean population. They originally arrived in Belize in 1847 to escape La Guerra de Castas (the Caste War), when over 70,000 Maya revolted against the 20,000 Spanish throughout Yucatan, annihilating over one-third of the population. The survivors, mostly Mestizo, fled over the border into British territory. Additionally, many refugees of the Caste War eventually reached western Belize by way of Peten, Guatemala, establishing communities in Benque Viejo del Carmen, San Ignacio, and San Jose Succotz. The Mestizo are found everywhere in Belize but most make their homes in the northern districts of Corozal and Orange Walk. Having merged with the Maya in the north, this has resulted in the Yucatec Maya giving way to the Mestizo, allowing them to lose their language and several other cultural forms. Since the 1980s, many thousands of refugee Mestizo from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras have

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  • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Study unlocks Latin American past: Explaining the fate of native males when the Europeans arrived ... It is a very sad and terrible historical fact, they were basically annihilated ..Not only did the European settlers take away land and property, they also took away the women and, as much

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