The Spanish-speaking peoples of New Mexico and Colorado

[@juanmancha2167]

" I DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDER, THE BORDER CROSSED ME"! EXACLY!!

[@Infanzones]

Saludos, desde el viejo Reino de Castilla y León, (España ) a los paisanos de Colorado y Nuevo México.

[@psalm91.777]

Thank you for the video, I cry i can hear my grandmas accent, you broke my heart but in a good way❤❤❤

[@franciscorobles6226]

Saludos cordiales desde Puerto Rico/greetings from Puerto Rico!

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

¡Que Viva Nueva México! ¡Que Viva Hispaña!

[@antoniogutierrezjr7471]

Fuck Spain go to Spain unless u full white Spaniard u can forget about a mestizo being accepted

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@antoniogutierrezjr7471well most New Mexicans don’t have a hatred for Spain. Spain is a very multicultural country nowadays. You need to travel more!

[@andros1000]

It’s “Nuevo México” and “España”, but I appreciate the sentiment. Also: “¡Que viva México!” Since Mexico was, after all, the country from which every single square inch of New Mexico was stolen at gunpoint. Blame Texas and the U.S. federal government for having dramatically diminished the size of New Mexico.

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

@@andros1000 Gáspar de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México, originally published in 1610... Mexico was named in 1821. New Mexico is older than Old Mexico and Newer than the New Mexicans that are coming over. Nueva México Nueva España es más antigua. Learn how to read bub. Hispañia is where España comes from, Aprende Castellano primero pendejo

[@newvilla8115]

Jews 6M Cubans 2.5M, Asians 22M MEXICAN AMERICANS 45-50M. WAKE UP MEXICANOS AND DEMAND, GRAB THE SOCIOPOLITICAL POWER THAT WE DESERVE.

[@Dwayne707countryliving]

I just loved this video. My grandmother and my grandfather were from New Mexico and also lived in Colorado. My dad was born in Colorado I remember a story that my grandmother told of it being so cold they put my dad close to the wood stove when he was a baby. My grandmother and my grandfather both spoke with an accent I wish they were around to see if they spoke this Spanish. I would love to learn this Spanish because it's my heritage. I did find the dictionary I wish there was audio CD's . To get the pronunciation right❤

[@danieldelrancho5749]

The closest thing their Spanish is northern mexican Spanish, like Sonoran and chihuahuan

[@MariaGasca-Reyes]

What makes The South West so beautiful is the Native and Spanish Mix .

[@maribelsandoval4405]

Loved this segment and the beautiful culture these communities cherish and hold. ❤️

[@2deepPodcast]

I’m from the Luján,Torres and Atencio line from this area so I appreciate this so much

[@gocka182]

This is so heart warming. Yes, I'm a grown ass llorón

[@mrz0413]

This is an amazing video! It brought back memories of how my grandparents spoke to each other and The Spanglish to us grandkids. ❤️Born and raised in New Mexico and I love my culture, music, and food! ✊🏽🇺🇸

[@sleekilla]

My grandmother is from Garcia and my grandfather from Costilla 🙏

[@m.vazquez8116]

Los mexicanos, californios, hispanos y tejanos necesitan unirse para preservar su cultura y formar un partido que los cuide y que pueda enfrentar a los demócratas y republicanos entre sí.

[@newvilla8115]

Not just culture but sociopolitical power, enough is enough, no more submissiveness.

[@m.vazquez8116]

@@newvilla8115

[@m.vazquez8116]

@@newvilla8115 Sí, estoy de acuerdo

[@Kat-fq4ei]

The only connection is the language. The histories are different and the northern New Mexico culture does not relate to Mexican immigrants.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

The only connection is the language, same as all Hispanic in Spanish America. Hispanic are common in language. All have their inherent histories and cultures since way back in the 1500s when colonization was at its infancy and Spain spread out far and wide. And Indigenous tribes too, for centuries are innate to their land, tribe, language, culture far and wide in the entire continent.

[@danny8917]

My dad came from Raton. His people were Hispanios. Spanish and Pueblo Indian, also Navajo. But it’s crazy because my dad said that his grandpa use to light the Menorah during the holiday season and pray in Hebrew. I found out his people were Sephardic Jews from Spain.

[@MannyGonzalezReyna]

Many of us have Sephardic roots, you are 100% right. Shalom.

[@Vjl5280]

Not only Sephardic Jews but also Ashkenazi. My family is from Mora.

[@Kosovar_Chicken]

I send you my deepest condolences

[@MariaGasca-Reyes]

Some of the best mixes I want to see the Pueblo peoples

[@mdc3148]

I know some of the old families in my part of Mexico (Zacatecas - where the founder and settlers of New Mexico were born originally) had Sephardic roots, but they’re so far back that I’ve never seen a Menorah or heard of one being lit. Perhaps since this was far out in the peripheries it made it easier to practice Judaism in a Catholic country? Did your grandfather teach you to adhere to Judaism?

[@britanyfitzgerald5061]

Nice people with lots of history? 👍🏻

[@LewisC-t1f]

God bless all Hispanic people and culture! Love all our Spanish dialects! Up the Spanish Empire and the Catholic Church!!

[@josiepalmer4562]

Spaniard European culture?

[@LewisC-t1f]

@@josiepalmer4562 yes, Hispanic and Catholic culture came from Spain. So what’s wrong with that? In North America it’s also mixed with Native American cultures, but that’s a beautiful thing. The Spanish empire and Catholic Church legalized interracial marriage since 1521.

[@josiepalmer4562]

@@LewisC-t1f 1054 CE: The Great Schism, which created the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths. The current Spain had about 800 years of Muslim rule prior to being conquered and many areas prior to Islam origins in Asia were Buddhist prior with the main language in the Middle East being Persian. Islam spread quite a bit. So did Christianity which would predate Islam but not Buddhism. However, God decides how to reveal himself (Emmanuel) so that history BC and AD are referred to in time. I still think of Spain reference to be European per geography.

[@LewisC-t1f]

@@josiepalmer4562 okay. But what’s your point? My culture is Hispanic. The majority of my ancestry comes from Spain. I am proud of my Hispanic and Catholic roots.

[@josiepalmer4562]

@@LewisC-t1f paid attention to DNA testing to show that Spaniard indicates European is all. Hispanic isn't classified as Spain. DNA testing is interesting to me as well for Hispanic and indigenous bloodlines. The DNA testing will be able to show you which areas of North or South America that your bloodline originates from. The areas will be able to indicate tribal affiliation. If you still have family that is on indigenous lands, then you already have the treasure of understanding your family. Even some of the food heritage is interesting to me such as indigenous people in North America with Indian fry bread. This was something that came out of the 60s from poverty. The ancestors of turtle Island would not have been eating wheat which came from Europeans. Squash beans and corn which even represented the body of a woman. Another bit of food history is the cassava that Africa makes fufu came from Spain. Even the first slaves from Africa that arrived to a coming America were from East Africa and speaking Portuguese and probably Christians because of Spain.

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

Referring to the Spanish just as Europeans is an insult, generalizing the most important factor of our Spanish identity. These descendants of the original Nova Spanish peoples, both Native and Spanish, belonged to the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The big difference between the Spanish Empire and the British is that people mixed and everyone was equally part of Spain with the same rights. Nova Hispano means the person born in the viceroyalty of Nueva España, which conformed half of the actual United States and Mexico, and included the Philippines as well. These ladies are right, the border moved and ended up on the Northern side of the line.

[@indalico]

I believe you are right Angela, Nueva España was a kingdom and not a colony, they made real de a ocho, the first global currency and control the commercial route between China, México and Europe. Saludos desde la vieja España.

[@LewisC-t1f]

100% I just visited two Spanish missions this week! Here in California! Absolutely beautiful! Makes me so proud to be Hispanic and Catholic! Up the Spanish empire and our beautiful Catholic Church! Viva La Nueva España! Arriba el Imperio Español! 🇪🇸 ✝️ ❤️

[@mdc3148]

@@indalico⚔️🇪🇸🇲🇽⚔️🇪🇸🇲🇽⚔️

[@bubbafett225]

I’m planning to move my family into this area, my great grandparents were around the Las Vegas / Golden , NM area. They left New Mexico because of the railroad, they traveled to flagstaff then Phoenix AZ. Growing up my dad would take me to this region for distant family reunions we had ties to. I hate what Arizona is becoming, gentrifiers came in and made everything 2-3x more expensive

[@danieldelrancho5749]

This is the Spanish ppl from northern Mexico speak. Only with a few Spanglish words

[@Deezalmech]

Yep just spanglish that's spoken by majority of Mexicans in the US. Nothing ancient or special.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@Deezalmechthe only difference is that they are not immigrants, they have lived there for centuries.

[@Deezalmech]

@@thekingofmoney2000 so you say.

[@EnriqueMarq]

@@Deezalmechthey are not immigrants to the United States.. they were living in those lands when the border moved south

[@mdc3148]

@@thekingofmoney2000I don’t really consider any Mexicans “immigrants” like others from Asia or Elsewhere

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

Hi from Spain. The best is the end: Americans, period. I feel and understand that most of those "Americans" who think they are pristine Americans don't know a thing of their country, and I'm speaking from Europe and didn't spend much time there. I also don't like the term "afroamericans". My English is rusty but understandable. Better than an AI translator I hope.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

The USA is a multicultural country with people from everywhere. Some are recent immigrants, and some have been here for centuries. It’s a melting pot of ethnicities.

[@Deezalmech]

@@thekingofmoney2000 The part your missing is how the different flavors came to be here. The statement that the US is a multicolored country of people from everywhere seems to imply the US is special in that regard.There are many multicultural countries on this planet. You need to know how and understand how the US came to be and most don't.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@Deezalmechdid I say we were the only multicultural country? Everyone has a different story. My family has been in Texas since the 1700s. I know the story of my people, I couldn’t care less about the rest.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

American nations are new nations in the New World of European explorations. Land claims by Europeans to become American nations are multicultural with indigenous roots, European colonization, African slaves, and immigration and melting pot from Alaska ( today part of the USA) to Argentina. A history of land disputes, border changes, treaties, wars, conquest--historical events over five centuries resulting in where, who we are today.

[@mattbrown837]

1850 the border was the Arkansas river in Colorado

[@Kat-fq4ei]

For all of 25 years under the brief SW Mexican Period. In fact, Spain had claimed the lands for over 250 years, but colonized only New Mexico 1598, Texas and California 1770. These were dangerous territory populated by thousands of unconquered warrior Indians who Spain left undisturbed. The distant northern New Spain wilderness was sparsely populated by Spanish Colonists during the Spanish Colonial Period 1598-1821. Mexico was a Johnny come late in 1824 to the SW which remained sparsely populated during the Mexican Period. Mexico never reached further than the SW as there was no population to govern in the wilderness. It was Americans who populated these lands after 1848 and Americans who populated Texas, under Mexican land grants during the Mexican Period.

[@mattbrown837]

@@Kat-fq4ei I am not well informed. Remembered it from a point of interest placard which was discussing Comanches. South of the river was mostly wilderness. The point was that everyone was an "enemy" to the Comanche.

[@1EQUALS-INFINITY]

The real Americans, not invadors.

[@D_Hawk-e5x]

I am from los Arellano from La Costilla.

[@Merry19ss]

Native American 🪶+ Iberian Spaniards 🇪🇦 = New Mexico MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS No o hispanos, Hispanidad ❤

[@MariaGasca-Reyes]

Thought the same Meztizos beautiful mix ❤.

[@LewisC-t1f]

100% absolutely beautiful! Viva la Hispanidad!!

[@jamess.2649]

St Augustine is the oldest European city in America

[@aticusgreen]

de America? o de USA?....

[@Kat-fq4ei]

Followed by Santa Fe in 1598, New Spain. Celebrating the oldest celebration annually in today's USA in honor of Spaniard Governor Don Diego DeVargas and northern New Mexico patron saint La Conquistadora for retaking New Mexico back in 1692.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

​@@aticusgreen St Augustin in Florida was Spains founding in America, New Spain. Today in the USA.

[@jimmycain8669]

There are some good Spanish in Pagosa Springs good clubs and good food too. Bunch of high classed ones. I was there 8 years for gas exploration.

[@AliceChavez-xu4xc]

My grandparents on my mother and father were from El Vado, Tierra Amarilla, Los Ojos and Los Ranchitos de San Juan. My mother was born in the Pagosa area. I grew up in Pagosa and reside in Pagosa.

[@leonpzambrano]

♥️💫

[@mdc3148]

1:03 The settlers that entered this region were NOVOHISPANO, from New Spain and specifically the Kingdom of Nueva Galicia (modern Zacatecas/Aguascalientes/Jalisco in Mexico 🇲🇽), not just “Spain” 🇪🇸.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

But these towns were not Mexico at that time. They were within Territories of New Spain. The only Mexico in 1519 was Tenochititlan, renamed Mexico City by Spain. For the mexica Aztec. "Mexico" was Aztec land within the Kingdom of Mexico Territory, cental Mexico today. New Spain had many Kingdoms or Territories, far and wide. Mexico City was Aztec land, surrounded by many tribes as Spaniards learned the different tribes and their lands. Northern New Mexican genealogical records documents them as born or died in Spain or New Spain. Onate from Zacatecas of Peninsular parents, founded New Mexicos far north. In his letter to the Viceroy in Mexico City he mentions arriving in New Mexico from New Spain. Back in 1598, Spaniards still held the European heritage to heart and soul. Its was over the years of mixed blood to form the mestizo "culture." By the time of Spanish Colonial Settlers in New Mexico, Casas Laws of the Indies was taking hold, the Indians were left unconquered, the only tribes subjugated by Spain were the Pueblo who still live where the Spanish found them. Spanish and Pueblo lived apart, each practiced their own culture, religion and language, yet Pueblo were converted to Catholicism and each learned from the other, became allies against the raiding warrior tribes. Remarkable after 400 years, the Pueblo still call the Spanish, "Spanish" and the Spanish still call them the "Indian." There was never a mestizo culture, even though the blood is mixed. Became Mexican citizens under the 25 years Mexican Period and became American citizens under US Territorial Period.

[@mariacortez9664]

By any chance, does somebody know the name of the song in the beginning of the video? Thank you.

[@jeremyjojola]

It's from the Library of Congress and part of a collection of recordings from the 1900s in New Mexico.

[@mariacortez9664]

@@jeremyjojola Thank you. I will look it up in the internet.

[@R-BURQUENO]

Somos Nuevo Mexicanos/Novo Hispanos 😎 California doesn't have anything on New Mexico historia🔥. We are the originators..

[@mdc3148]

California has much Hispanic history starting in the mid 1700’s, same as Texas. Nuevo México was the earliest in the area, but they all came from one place: Nueva España/México which is older than all of them 🇲🇽🇪🇸

[@mdc3148]

It is also ironic that you say your the originators (and you might well have lines to my family) but I am a descendant of the founder Juan de Oñate who was born in modern Zacatecas, México 🇲🇽 where my family still lives. We truly are the originators and NM wouldn’t exist without us in Central Mexico!!

[@R-BURQUENO]

@@mdc3148 You are correct. Not arguing with that.

[@Aaron-i6t]

google Onates Disease which is prevalent among the 13 families who came up with the Onate expedition in 1514.

[@UE5n00b]

What word is "ancient" spanish?

[@thekingofmoney2000]

It’s not ancient Spanish, but some words they use are archaic, words that aren’t as common in Latin America anymore, but you do still hear them in rural areas of Mexico. In the videos they are mostly using Spanglish, but not everyone speaks that way.

[@UE5n00b]

@@thekingofmoney2000 what words are those?? i just see here people trying to explain something with actual 0 knowledge lmao.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@UE5n00b Words like “ansina” for “asi”, “nadien”, for “nadie”, “mercar” for shopping, “plebe” instead of “gente”, and many others. They didn’t include any of those words in the video. They’re common words among many Hispanic communities in US states that were once part of Mexico. You hear them in some parts of rural Mexico as well. I wouldn’t call it “ancient” Spanish, they’re just archaic words not widely used anymore, the rest of it is modern Spanish mixed with English. I would consider Ladino to be more of an “ancient” Spanish, and yet despite the differences, it’s still very similar to modern day Spanish.

[@jimmym9581]

This video has so much incorrect information. Starting with the fact that Florida is actually the oldest european settlement in what is today the U.S. not New Mexico.

[@GabrielNez-Lopez-pu6mi]

True San Augustin, Florida was settled in 1565, but there is a little spainsh town in Northern New Mexico called Mora and the original settlers of that town say it was settled in 1540-42 when the Coronado expedition came up from New Spain-Mexico!? Which would make it the oldest European town in the USA 🇺🇸! But Santa Fe is the oldest capital in America 🇺🇸 which was settled in 1607!

[@jimmym9581]

@@GabrielNez-Lopez-pu6mi Ridiculous, the area of Mora was most definitely not settled by non New Mexican natives in the 1540s. The area of Mora was settled by non Natives in the late 18th century. There were no "spanish" settlements founded during the coronado expedition in New Mexico. Look it up yourself and you'll see.

[@GabrielNez-Lopez-pu6mi]

@@jimmym9581 So they say but you and I weren't there to see for ourselves Que No?

[@jimmym9581]

@@GabrielNez-Lopez-pu6mi That's not how history works lol. That's how religion works.

[@GabrielNez-Lopez-pu6mi]

@@jimmym9581 well were not talking about Religion were talking about History and the Only One who Truly knows Everything is Yahweh Yeshua-Jesus Christ The Creator of Heaven and Earth 🌎 Which Is His-Story!!!!!!!

[@GummyBearRecords]

So its spanglish ?

[@edoardovillalobos6653]

No is spanish

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Yes, bust most younger generations only speak English.

[@Merry19ss]

Spanish ❤

[@andros1000]

Apparently. You clearly heard the code-switching. Real Spanish is all but dead in Colorado and northern New Mexico, except for that of the more recent immigrants, though they will likely lose their Spanish too after a generation or two.

[@andros1000]

They are still descendants of Mexicans, whatever their genetic heritage maybe, as is also the case for those still on the other side of the new border line that New Mexicans say “crossed _them_ “.

[@LewisC-t1f]

Spanish Empire**!! The Mexican government has always been a disaster. We were much better off under a Catholic Spanish empire!!

[@ElRecopilador-wz9dn]

don't say Spanish??? Come on, embrace all your roots, lady.

[@djramire1174]

You mean embrace the European imperialists that raped and stole our ancestors' land?

[@psalm91.777]

Much of us do not have our native language anymore, our history is complicated it's much more than that

[@tenuck67]

you guys are mestizos, and her spanish is very mexican

[@psalm91.777]

@@tenuck67 are you Mexican?

[@psalm91.777]

@@tenuck67 you said you guys are mestizos, so who are you ?

[@newvilla8115]

Southwest is Native/Mexican land, no apologies at all.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

25 years of Mexican citizenship does not make a Mexican. The SW lands were indigenous tribes as Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa, Chumash, Kumeyay, Mohave, Pueblo, Shasta, Ute, plus many more, who never knew the lands as Mexican, and don't identify as Mexican. They know their innate tribes and lands which were never Mexico or Mexican. It was European Spain who explored and claimed the SW lands for over over two centuries. Mexico was a Johnny come late to California, New Mexico which included Arizona, and Texas. Mexican officials arrived after 1824, 250 years after Spain. Mexican presence was very brief , approximately 1821-1846. The SW Mexican Period.

[@newvilla8115]

@ we are mestizos either way Spanish native Mexican we are entitled, DONT COME WITH BS THAT ANGLOS ARE MORE ENTITLED BECAUSE THEY INVADED KILLED AND STOLE

[@Kat-fq4ei]

​It's not Americanos, its Mexican immigrants who feel entitled on lands that never belonged to them or their ancestors. In fact the SW was never a mestizo culture, the majority Indian tribes were unconquered having little to do with the Spanish Colonial Settlers and most Indians don't have mixed blood--they are not mestizo. Mestizo is Mexican immigrant Chicano Studies influence.