And you can partly blame popular culture for some of it. They are too lazy to crack a book so when they need a tribe they make them either Aztec or Maya.
They have had them as far north as North Dakota and as far south as Peru.
The Inca get attention when someone wants to show views of Machu Picchu or llamas. They’re really the only indigenous South American group to cross the North American radar.
We had a Diocesan Spanish Music Get-Together on Saturday, and the Other Guy in my church’s Spanish music program played a song he had written. His name is Geovanny. The Cuban priest from Miami (running the thing) asked if he were un hermano Italiano? No? Hermano Mexicano? No? Colombiano? No. He’s from Guatemala.