Mexican-American Indians Now Fourth Largest Tribal Group in the United States Esmeralda Ojeda - Newspaper Tree
go to original October 27, 2013

Young Tarahumaran girls in northern Mexico. (Santi Llobet/flickr)

Mexican-American Indians now make up the fourth largest tribal group in the United States, following the Cherokee, Navajo, and Choctaw, according to the US Census.

A US Census brief, titled “The American Indian and Native Population: 2010,” states that there are 175,494 Mexican-American Indians nationwide, 14,435 in Texas, and 578 in El Paso County.

These figures do not include members of the Tigua tribe in El Paso. As of 2012, there were 1,717 members of the tribe.

According to a July 3, 2011 New York Times article, “The trend is part of a demographic growth taking place nationwide of Hispanics using ‘American Indian’ to identify their race. The number of Amerindians—a blanket term for indigenous people of the Americas, North and South—who also identify themselves as Hispanic has tripled since 2000, to 1.2 million from 400,000.”

The “Mexican” category is a subset of the “Hispanic” category under US Census rules.

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