The Mexicans were the only ones who dared to enter areas dominated by the native Indians of the southern United States.

The Mexicans were the only ones who dared to enter areas dominated by the native Indians of the southern United States.

The Mexicans were the only ones who dared to enter areas dominated by the native Indians of the southern United States. These traders were known as Comancheros. But they were also the only ones who traded with African-Americans, Apaches, Cherokees and other native tribes.
The Mexicans brought to the southern United States, and from 1810, the guitar, tequila, barbacoa, tamales, the Mexican corrido and many other things from Mexican culture, including the famous petate. The petate, more than a bed, was an artifact with deep symbolism. It served as a bed, but also as a shroud or to make hats.
The Comancheros were so named because the Comanches, in whose territory they traded, were considered their best customers. They exchanged manufactured goods (tools and cloth), flour, tobacco and bread for hides, cattle, rifles, ammunition and horses. Since the Comanches and Apaches did not breed horses, they did not have sufficient access to guns and gunpowder.
In the book New Mexico Book of the Undead Gobin & Ghoul Folklore by author Ray John de Aragon, it is narrated how there were two groups of Mexican Traders:
The Ciboleros, rough Mexicans and Horsemen, horsemen, who hunted buffalo, pumas, bears and deer, very popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The fearless Comancheros, the reckless Comancheros, were the other group, horsemen who went into Indian territory to trade with the Comanches.
The Comanches respected the courage of the Mexican Comancheros and their skill in fighting, weapons and horses.
Many Mexican Corridos were composed in honor of the Mexican Comancheros.
The Mexicans living in the area played the violin and guitar and composed their famous Mexican Corridos.
Mexicans, Afro-Americans and Comanches formed alliances, lived together, mixed their cultures and exchanged their customs, food, music and traditions.
Musicians like Charlie Patton, are believed to have had Mexican, Indian and Afro-American blood. This is what Howlin’ Wolf affirmed.
The truth is that Mexicans, Comanchero Indians and Cherokees and Afro-Americans formed families, created offspring and exchanged their music and songs.
The blues also drew from these deep roots.
In the Villa de El Duende (Goblin Town) near Taos, violinists played Folk Music.
Songs like La Entrega de los Difuntos (The Delivery of the Dead).
Variations on the story of Cinderella and La Llorona (The Weeping Woman). Juan Verdades (John the Ripper) and La Hija del Diablo (The Devil’s Daughter).
In Mexico, several researchers believe that La Llorona, as a character from Mexican mythology and legends, has its origins in some pre-Hispanic beings or deities such as Auicanime, among the Purépecha; Xonaxi Queculla, among the Zapotec; Cihuacóatl, among the Nahua; and Xtabay, among the Lacandon Maya.
Along with La Adelita and La Cucaracha, La Llorona became a widely used popular song, but unlike the others, there are many versions, each with different lyrics.
The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations
This is a history of the Comancheros, or Mexicans who traded with the Comanche Indians in the early Southwest. When Don Juan Bautista de Anza and Ecueracapa, a Comanche leader, concluded a peace treaty in 1786, mutual trade benefits resulted, and the treaty was never afterward broken by either side. New Mexican Comancheros were free to roam the plains to trade goods, and when Americans were introduced, the Comanches and Mexicans even joined in a loose, informal alliance that made the American occupation of the plains very costly. Similarly, in the 1860s the Comancheros would trade guns and ammunition to the Comanches and Kiowas, allowing them to wreck a thick toll on the advancing Texans.
JUAN ÁVILA.
You are looking at an Apache scout. Photo taken in 1886, the same year Geronimo surrendered. In those days, Native women didn’t even think about wearing pants. Yes, we are familiar with Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley, and a couple more tough female settlers. Even blacks like Stagecoach Mary, but Natives? No. Meanwhile, female warriors were a dime a dozen along tribal lines. Nothing unusual about that. To say this female Apache scout was a pioneer is an understatement.