My cousin’s husband was an archaeologist-he was very into paleo-indians, where they went to over the years, who they interacted with. There have been several DNA studies showing Aztecs and Apaches were once the same bunch-one part went South and after wandering around and raiding for awhile became Aztecs for whatever reason-and after the conquest, some of them came back here and just blended in, which makes perfect sense-and they seem to have behaved better here, too...
I’m not a rabid admirer of any of the Natives in the Americas at that time, where conquest was a way of life, but I’m not an admirer or the Spanish, either-the rest of Europe didn’t seem to be at ease with them in the 15th-16th centuries, writing about their extreme cruelty and treachery. They are mostly socialists in Spain now, so I thank my ancestors for booking passage to the New World about 400 years ago, so I didn’t have to do it now...