Example sentences for: mestizos

How can you use “mestizos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So the camposantos were still left for the poor mestizos.

  • The affiliation with Aztlán also reaffirms the Chicanos’ identity as mestizos (people of mixed ancestry), as members of the indigenous population of the New World.

  • 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 early vaqueros, those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, were mestizos, Indians, Negroes, and mulattos.

  • Spaniards and the clergy were allowed to be buried in the missionary churches, whereas the mestizos (people of mixed race) and Indians were buried in the camposanto located in front or to the right of the church.


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