Don’t a lot of Hispanics have Native American roots?
Virtually all Hispanics have more or less Native American roots. For some reason in this country, in the popular imagination we tend to think of Native Americans as those who resided in the area that is now the United States. The fact is, all of the people that occupied the Americas--from Alaska to the tip of South America were racially all the same. There were/are differences in language, customs, and even some physical appearance, but they were all ethnically Native Americans.