Example sentences for: mestizos

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

  • 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.

  • The Spanish mission padres recognized this labor and conscripted mestizos (mixed-race people), Indians, and Mexicans to take care of the cattle.

  • Translated as “the people,” it is recognized as meaning all mixed-race Spanish and Indian people, known as mestizos.

  • 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.

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


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