Criollo people
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In Hispanic America, criollo is a term used originally to describe people of full and near complete Spanish descent born in the New World viceroyalties, under the Spanish crown. In different Hispanic
The Spanish and their descendants born in America formed the highest social group in the colony. Drawing from the New Chronicle and Good Government by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, 16th century.
Fermín Francisco de Carvajal Vargas, Duke of San Pedro. Creole born in the Kingdom of Chile
Criollos dancing at a ball in Colonial Chile
Criollos in what is now Guatemala rejoice upon learning about the declaration of independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.
Tejanos
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Tejanos are descendants of mostly Native Americans and Spanish settlers, but also Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state. The term is also sometimes
Criollo people
…Nuevomexicanos in Spanish New Mexico, and later Mexican New Mexico (Nuevo México) Tejanos in Spanish Texas, and later Mexican Texas (Tejas) Luisianos in Spanish Louisiana, including the Adaeseños, descendants of Texas Creoles and Tlaxcalan…
Tejanos (1859)
Ranchero de Texas (1828). Tejano vaqueros were very different from the Mexican vaqueros of central Mexico, both in their costumes and customs. Tejanos were very humble in their dress; their saddles, while being Mexican in origin, were rough and heavy and lacked the finesse of the central Mexico saddles. This changed once Mexican traditions were adopted by the Tejanos.
Spanish Creoles from Texas
Juan Seguín, Tejano leader of the Texas Revolution and statesman in the Republic of Texas