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As posted before this blog is on hold for it's "anti-Mestizos opinions", we can only post positive things about Mestizos until new order..

Mestizos in this blog refers to Ecuadorian Mestizo descendants of Aucas and Jivaros ....

Mestizos are the result of the cross breeding between Spanish conqueror and Native Ecuadorians...

They represent a great cultural and historical treasure , white conqueror most of them back to Europe after invading Ecuador left behind the sick, rejects, convicted criminals and retarded that they doesn't want back to Europe....Those forced to live among native Americans constitute the about 3% of whites in Ecuador. That's happened 400 to 600 years ago ....Native Ecuadorian considered those whites left over like their people and coexisted with them since then on, making what we call now "Mestizos republic" or Ecuador. The great thing about Mestizos is their special status..the enrichment that they brought to the history of the world. While the world races before the discovery of the world was limited to white, black or native American,( talking about this side of the Atlantic ocean), now we have a new race that resulted from this forced cross breeding ( lol i like this one...forced cross breeding).

The new world demographic composition upon the arrival of European was boring: whites, native Americans and blacks later...even the whole world demographic composition was limited...

The Europeans discover the new world invade natives land, culture and population and like magic a new specie pops up! ...."The Mestizo" or what you call now Latinos or Hispanics, this blog is dedicated to Ecuadorians but the theory is about all Hispanics so they will understand what they are and where they come from (Long time ago... old gringos testicles....).

The great thing about Mestizo is that they represent a variety, an uncountable humans looks, like stated before they "take all shapes forms, colors and sizes"....This is perfectly explained by the more than 400 years of cross breeding and the fact that since the discovery of the new world until this day, the new world was a destination for travelers from all over the world to enjoy what the new continent has to offers from nature, landscape and the richness of what was once called native American civilization to the company of natives, usually ends up with a crossbreeding and the formation of a new look on the new land.

Mestizos now use this point to, some time when ashamed of their origin, even tough the Mestizo are a great plus in the history of the world like stated before, some of them, use the fact of that they "take all shapes, colors, forms and size"to claim ancestry to another country often overseas....What el Mestizo trying to say is that... his or her grand father from the sited country spent a two weeks vacation in the new continent and has unprotected sex with her grand mother..."bad gringo...".Some times Gringos just abuse the purity and the innocence of natives....bringing..diseases and unwanted kids....This practice must be stopped to save the culture and the civilization of native Americans....

Back to Ecuadorian Mestizos..Now we know where they come from....lets discover how great they are...

To be continued...

Native Americans

The European colonization of the Americas forever changed the lives and cultures of the Native Americans. In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged, by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in many cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them. The first Native American group encountered by Columbus, the 250,000 Arawaks of Haiti, were enslaved. Only 500 survived by the year 1550, and the group was extinct before 1650.

The Natives of Panama

When the Spaniards came to the present day area known as Panama in the 16th Century, they encountered various Native American Indian Groups; the main of these included the Kuna, Guaymi, Choco and some other minor native groups. Subsequent to the settling of the Spanish, the mixed ancestry of Spanish and Indians developed to what is termed today as mestizos. During the colonial times the people from Africa were brought there as slaves, and slowly these people were also integrated into the society. With the construction of the Panama City – Colon railway, and then later the canal, a range of nationalities were settled in this area; included nationalities were from the United States, China, French, West Indian, as well as Italians and Greeks. All these nations have contributed to the current society of Panama.

A small fraction of the original natives remain, mostly living in isolated areas, including on small islands, and in the rain forests.

The largest of the groups is the Guaymi or Ngobe Bugle – mostly located in Western Panama. They live in the provinces of Chiriqui, Bocas del Toroand Veraguas. The language spoken by these indigenous natives is known as Ngabere. The Guaymi proved to be formidable opponents to the exploring Spaniards and it was recorded in many historic journals of these fierce and fearless adversaries. The Guaymi people still follow many of their traditions, but many have opted for the work opportunities in the coffee plantations in the neighboring Costa Rica. The women still practice the manufacture of traditional arts and crafts and make the traditional ‘Panama hat’ which is worn by the men… A traditional ‘jewellery’ item worn by these people is what is known as a Chaquira, which is a beaded necklace also worn by the men of the Ngobe Bugle.

Nos otros the mestizos

Any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction. In some countries—e.g., Ecuador—it has acquired social and cultural connotations; a pure-blooded Indian who has adopted European dress and customs is called a mestizo (or cholo). In Mexico the description has been found so variable in meaning that it has been abandoned in census reports. In the Philippines “mestizo” denotes a person of mixed foreign (e.g., Chinese) and native ancestry.

Mestizo children, the issue of Spanish and Indian parents, were often abandoned; thus, special institutions appeared to collect and educate them—for example, the Girls’ School and the School of San Juan de Letrán, founded by Viceroy Mendoza in New Spain, and the Bethlehemite schools of Guatemala and Mexico...

Groups of Ecuador include a number of Indian-language-speaking populations (often referred to as indigenous peoples or Amerindians) and highland and lowland Spanish-speaking mestizos (people of mixed Indian and European descent). Ethnicity in Ecuador is often a matter of self-identification. Most Ecuadorans consider themselves mestizo and tend to identify with their...

...Quito was a colonial centre of wood carving and painting, and artisans still produce replicas of the masterpieces of the Quito school. Certain mestizo and indigenous communities have specialized in particular crafts, such as agave-fibre bags near Riobamba and Salcedo; wood carving at Ibarra; leatherwork at Cotacachi; woolen tapestries at...

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The last descendants of Indians...

A lot of scientists agree that Ecuadorian people are 100% descendants of native Amazon Indians. And that Ecuador represent the Mestizos nation in central and south America.... Learn more, discover the Mestizos Republic

Scientists have found … "markers" in human genes that they call Native American markers because they believe all "original" Native Americans had these genetic traits … On the mitochondrial DNA, there are a total of five different "haplotypes" … which are increasingly called "Native American markers," and are believed to be a genetic signature of the founding ancestors. As for the Y-chromosome, there are two primary lineages or "haplogroups" that are seen in modern Native American groups.
So "Native American markers" can tell something about an individual’s biological descendancy along a few ancestral lines over archaeological time.

Big part (more than95%)of individuals from Ecuador possess markers and have close biological, social and cultural attachment to a living tribe.
That take us to the conclusion that Ecuadorian people and Ecuador represent the last existing of living amazon Indians, and the Ecuador represent the Mestizos nation.

Thats been approved by the Ecuadorian look and by the Savage way Ecuadorians people live, their attitude, and their constant effort to find an identity, since Mexicans looks down on them, other south American country consider Ecuadorians like bugs ...Thats make them acting funny and always trying to prove what they are not .

Ecuador ---> native Indians roots

Tiguino, Ecuador -- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge.

In May 2003, nine Huaorani warriors from the village of Tiguino killed 26 Tagaeri men, women and children. They justified the massacre of nearly one- fifth of a tiny tribe that shuns outsiders as payback for a 1993 murder. But Colombian loggers may have instigated the raid so they could seek lucrative stands of Spanish cedar and a mahogany called aguano abundantly found on Tagaeri land, according to recent interviews with government officials, police investigators and several Huaorani leaders.

"They (the loggers) were scared of the Tagaeri and went to Tiguino," said Penti Baihua, a Huaorani leader who spoke with several of the nine raiders after the attack. "They told them: 'We'll give you gasoline and bullets if you kill the Tagaeri. We want to work in that area.' "

Regional laws protect the Tagaeri -- a nomadic tribe of fewer than 150 people who subsist on hunting and fishing in a 1.7 million-acre reserve -- as well as thousands of other indigenous peoples living in remote areas of the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, Ecuador and Peru. But all are feeling the pressure of "civilization" advancing on their territories.

Tiguino, Ecuador -- In the years since development began in Ecuador's Amazon region, the Huaorani and Tagaeri Indians have taken very different paths.

In the first recorded encounter with the outside world in 1956, the Tagaeri -- also known as Auca or Jivaro -- killed five American missionaries. In 1987, they murdered Spanish Bishop Alejandro Lavaca and a Colombian nun, Ines Arango, with poison-tipped spears. An oil company helicopter had dropped the two off so they could bring the word of God, discuss the arrival of oil workers and offer ways to help the tribe.

In contrast, Ecuador's government spent decades working through U.S. missionaries, the Catholic Church and the armed forces to "civilize" the 2,000- strong Huaorani tribe and pave the way for oil drilling in their ancestral lands. In 1989, Babae Ima, the leader of the Huaorani, settled in the community of Tiguino along an oil road, which remains the only land access to the muddy Tiguino River. Ima, who is in his 70s, charges a fee to all outsiders who enter his territory. No one travels down the river without his consent -- not missionaries, eco-tourists or illegal loggers.

Standing beside a ramshackle outhouse on the outskirts of his remote Amazon village, Ima shook a yellowing canvas sack until a grisly object rolled into view -- a human skull from the raid that he led last year that killed 26 Tagaeri in what he called revenge for the death of a Huaorani man by a Tagaeri spear-thrower in 1993. The gruesome memento is a long-standing tradition of Amazon warfare, he said.

Federal investigator Marco Vargas, who visited the massacre scene a week afterward, said revenge might have been one reason for the deadly raid, "but I'm absolutely sure it wasn't the only one. The business ties between the loggers and Tiguino are very, very strong," he said. "The only people who represented an obstacle to the loggers (in that area) are now dead."

Vargas' investigation -- detailed in a 200-page report -- was abruptly cut short by the Organization of the Huaorani Nation of the Ecuadoran Amazon, a council of elders of 32 Huaorani communities, who pardoned all nine attackers after they promised never to do it again. Ecuador's 1998 constitution gives indigenous communities the right to settle internal conflicts according to their traditions.