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So the camposantos were still left for the poor mestizos.
The early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.
The Spanish mission padres recognized this labor and conscripted mestizos (mixed-race people), Indians, and Mexicans to take care of the cattle.
His children were the first mestizos — the people of mixed Indian and Spanish blood who now make up 55 percent of the Mexican population.
The indigenous population of Mexico was segregated and not racially mixed, and the mestizos were more closely aligned with the Indians than with the upper classes.