Esperanza,

Here's a link to a partial list of colonial caste system:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mexcoahu/caste.html


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, latina1955@a... wrote:
> I could be wrong (my memory comes and goes with this stuff called 
menopause  
> - should be called memorypause), but I think coyote was a term used 
to 
> describe  the mixed blood of Indians and African.  
>  
> There was a chart (perhaps someone can recall it here?) that 
described the  
> various labels placed on the mixture of "races" during the early 
part of the  
> conquest, when race delineation was seen as important by the 
Spanish.  I'll  
> keep looking for this chart, but in the meantime, perhaps someone 
else on the  
> board has easy access to it for reference?
>  
> Esperanza