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The Hispanos of New Mexico are people of Spanish or Indo-Hispanic descent. The explorer Don Juan de Oñate from Mexico City to New Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers around 1598. By the time of the Civil War in 1861, both the North and South claimed ownership of the area. And like with White treatment of Native Americans, Whites treated the Hispanos unfairly as second-class citizens.

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