Finished the census.

My kids all insisted on being reported thus:

Ethnicity:
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano

Race:
White (Mixed European) &
Native American (Huasteca Nahua / Chichimeca).

There was a long conversation about the last one.

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My wife's family says that its indigenous roots came from those communities, so my children have accepted that as part of their racial identity (though culturally / ethnically they have little connection to present-day indigenous groups in San Luis Potosí & the Huasteca).

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I, on the other hand, put "Chicano" and "White (Mixed European)."

I have no idea where my limited (8%) indigenous ancestry comes from, and I have no intention of ever claiming indigeneity as part of my personal identity.

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But definitely note:

YOU CAN CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE RACE.

If you're Mexican American and you know for sure that your people are Spanish and X native group, for example, you can select them both on the Census.

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Addendum.

You could select "OTHER" and write whatever you want, but note that the Native American option lists, uh, example indigenous Mexican groups (specifically "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec" ).

Addendum 2.

To clarify, on the "race" screen, for the "Native American" box, you can list *whatever* tribe / nation / group you want.

They just happened to list examples, among them "Mayan" [sic] and "Aztec."

You could write "Purépecha" or "Otomí" or "Zapotec," etc.