Question

List two important groups currently living in New Mexico then briefly evaluate each group to identify one way that the group reflects a historical new mexico influence

Answer 1

New Mexico has two large minorities: Indians and Hispanics. In 2000, the estimated American Indian population was 173,483 (9.5% of the total population—the second-highest percentage of any state). In 2004, 10.1% of the population was American Indian. Part of Arizona's great Navaho reservation extends across the border into New Mexico. New Mexico's Navaho population was recorded as 67,397 in 2000. 

Answer 2

New Mexico has a population of 2 059 179 people, of which:

• 48% are Latin American or Hispanic whites (among whom the descendants of Spanish and Mexican colonizers predominate).

• 9.1% are Amerindians (Native Americans).

44% of the population is of Hispanic-American origin. Most of the Spanish-American inhabitants are descendants of the Spaniards who, coming from Mexico, arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are also immigrants arriving from Mexico more recently. It is a migratory current that continues. Another 9.1% of the inhabitants are Native Americans, descendants of the native inhabitants of these lands. This is the state with the most indigenous population in the United States.

The Indians of New Mexico belong to one of the following tribes: Navajos, Pueblo Indians, divided into 21 independent towns, and Apaches. A large part of the Indians live in reserves scattered throughout the state. The Pueblo Indians are the ones who were most Hispanicized and more mestizo with the descendants of the Spaniards. Most of the rest of the inhabitants of the state are Anglo-Americans, descendants of those who arrived after 1848, the year in which it became the territory of the United States.