Juan Tejeda

Juan Tejeda is a musician and scholar with his own band. Juan is a Mexican-American and is now a Chicano or what he calls it Xicano. Xicano is from the America Indians that were here first, mainly the Nahuatl and also the Aztecs. He spoke about the difference between Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity. There are only three different races. Ethnicity can be categorized as Mexican, Latinos, Hispanic, and even Americans. Spaniards came to America for gold, god, and glory. Part American Indian and Spaniards are called Mestizo. The Mestizos fought the Spaniards and made Mexico. Angelo Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, the idea that they should own the land from sea to sea. The three languages Chicano spoke Nahuatl, Espanol, and then finally English. He wrote his own poem called “Coyote Hungry for Justice” in 1996 about the questions of life. Tejano Music evolved in America and is called Corrido, Conjunto, and Orquesta Tejana. This music comes from the history of the working class music on the ranches. It is a mix between German and Mexican music.