No they are not, Mexican cowboy is the Genuine cowboy, cowboy cultured existed even before the first black people arrived to America.. México is New Spain and New Spain it's México.
@@baddas380 And there were Black Cowboys from Mexico. And in Mexico they weren’t called Cowboys but Vaqueros. Cowboy was a derogatory term to refer to a Black Cowhand
@@wayne47able Vaqueros or Bokaroos are the same has cowboys, the name vaqueros comes from the word cow, in spanish Vaca, Vaquero is the derivative or adjective. and the vaqueros existed even before the first black people was brought in. Now you are right in a way, black people came to mexico because it was illegal to have slaves, so a lot of black people learned the vaquero way while they were here, and then when the US started to steal away Mexican territory, they bring with them a lot of hispanics, natives and blacks that already have made their life in there. So yeah, between people from Anglo descendants and blacks, black were the first cowboys. but the first cowboys were from spanish and native decendency
I love what he said about riding on the trails and letting the horse just go. I'm a black cowboy and I love that feeling of just riding. When I'm on a horse I don't care about anything just riding. Its God, the horse and me.
@@ThroughDarknessComesLight not 100% correct, the start of the cowboy originally come from the people of Spain and Portugal. The horses we have here are 1st brought by the Europeans and mainly Spaniards. They use that on the frontier to patrol the land and herd controls since the lands where more vast and spread out than Europe lands and ideal for equestrian . The term cowboy/vaqueros is a "new world" and the need was more vast since the US territories are most spread out than Spain. You had both Indian, Spaniards and new Settlers all acting as cowboys thru out the history of developments of the Americas. FWIW the cows also brought to the USA and other parts of Americas, are by the same Europeans that brought the horses. No single breed of cow is native to the Americas. Even the TX longhorn is NOT native to TX.
@@kfelix2934 Spain was colonized by the moors who where west and North African and middle eastern ppl. All the way to the crusaders. And pretty much taught everything.
Another point is that the name "cowboy" was originally given to the black, the whites were referred to as "cowhands" merely as a racial insult to blacks, they were referred to them as "boy"
TREMENDOUSLY INTERESTED it comes NATURALLY from WITHIN!!! May God bless me with my own horse and someone who loves horses. I intend to name her AUTUMN.
Black cowboys and Mexican vaqueros....are just hot... sorry, I had to say it. 🙊 But on a serious note, country/ cowboy life and western culture are so appealing and intriguing.
Not all Cowboys or Wranglers wrk on farms or dealing with animals its an ethic a style a code a sense of respect in what you do not a place or a condition I can't wrk this is what makes me a Cowboy not a person wearing a hat and boots I hve not forgotten who I am and where I come from 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
How everyone didn't know this is beyond me. When I was probably 7 yrs old my brother bought me my first pony. It was a little Shetland and was absolutely the meanest little thing you ever crawled on. My best friend was a little black kid I went to school with and me and him loved nothing more than riding that pony. But we talked about it at that young age that on TV you never saw black cowboys. We didn't understand why , but I told him that I believed that there were alot of black cowboys and that the guys on TV just was too stupid to know that. But we just kept on being the lone ranger and Tonto and never paid it anymore attention to the stupidity of Hollywood.
Kinda they brought the horses and cattle then it evolved from the Mexicans to what it is now . The Spanish never had this style this style of the cowboys (vaquero) came from the Mexicans
Vaqueros= Mexican cowboy has been around since the early 1500s native American Indians were in America also when no white or black people hadn't arrived in America till the 1600s.
From what I have read Cowboys which means Vaqueros in spanish existed even before Texas, California and other states were part of the USA, it was Mexico. A lot of cattle was moved from the Mexican states like Chihuahua and Mexico City up North. Mexican indigenous and indigenous mixed with Spanish where the ones working the cattle. They even invented things like the cowboy leather chaps. Mexicans also modified the saddle for example by adding the horn for the rope. European saddles don’t have the horn. Then many Americans continued the cowboy tradition including many African Americans. The term Cowboys was used to tease people. Then, white people took the term and use it as just its own for movies. Back then and now many Mexicans, Native Americans, Afro Americans and White Americans are cowboy/girls and participate in rodeos. You can find a lot of cowboys/vaqueros in many parts of the American Continent, mostly in Mexico and USA Western states like Texas. In Mexico I grew up with the culture horses, cows, goats, farming and still my grandfather with his boots and hat works the fields. I love this tradition/culture let’s keep it alive !!! Hugs to all our black cowboys/girls that need more recognition ❤️ Blessings to all cowboys/girls no matter the color, the race, religion or nationality
@@ThroughDarknessComesLight sub Saharan is not our ancestry either.
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The first cowboys are the Indigenous and Mexicans. The word came from "Vaqueros". The European-American who brought poor slave basically copied them. Which is fine. But just get the history right.
@@melaniebustamante9778 you really seem upset that black people are getting any kind of recognition, so im gonna go ahead and post someones comment that i copied since you cant seem to comprehend words. "Comprehension is essential. The qoute is roughly: first cow boys by name. The boys who went and got the cows. Meaning: that specific term was first ascribed to that group. I assume you were coming from a place of passion rather than hate and ask that you reconsider your statement".
This whole narrative that back cowboys have never been represented and the history has been hidden etc is starting to get on my nerves cause it's not true. I got into black cowboy history when I was 11 after I saw the movie Posse. From there I found the Jim Brown westerns....the Fred Williamson westerns...the Willie Stroud Westerns....as far back as the 1940s with Herb Jefferies and the Harlem goes West movies. Ive never run out books to read on Nat Love Stagecoach Mary Cherokee Bill Bass Reeves. I subscribed to Wild West Magazine and there's always articles on black cowboys. It just annoys me that every other year NYT Huff Post The Guardian or some other mainstream publication will do an article on black cowboys and it's the same old narrative "the hidden history ...the lost and forgotten...left out of movies... left out of history books" and I wonder have they looked for the movies?....have they looked for the books?...they arent hard to find
Wow... what a bunch of lies, cowboy are hispanoamericans, not black, the first cowboys where of spanish descendants (Brown, White and Native american) some of the pictures they show in the video are from native Americans, not black people, you can not even tell the difference? Only because they have Dark skin tone dosen't mean they are black. If you feel left out imagine what we Hispanoamericans feel when we know that cowboy culture is from us and Mexican culture. This culture comes from spain and all of the southern countries practice it, with different clothes and names. but the ones that are in USA as we know them today are from Mexico, same clothes and sombreros, that's why you have spanish names, even the word cowboy it's from Spanish, we are the real Cowboys and we have differents kinds in México, we also have el Charro that is from the south but the cowboy of the north its the vaquero the one that you have in US. Black cowboys don't even represent the 1%. Cowboys are Mestizos, cowboys are the real decendants of native americans and spanish cultures.
They were actually both Black and Mexican. Also Hispanic is an ethnicity not a race so one can be Native, African and European and be Hispanic. And Mexicans were the ones who taught Africans how to ride because unlike you race and color didn't matter to them.
@@char08fal when Spain arrived here they introduced livestock to the natives and forced natives how to ranch. Spain aren’t cowboys (vaqueros) . They never even called themselves that . They refer mexico to “la Tierra de los vaqueros/charros” In English “land of the charros/cowboys.” Over centuries we mastered the ranching and lasso. And bullriding. Blacks became cowboys when they were fleeing the south they would end up in Texas which was Mexico at that time. Take note that Texas in that moment was a slave free state belonging to Mexico and slaves were always welcome . It was then , that the blacks learned from the Mexican cowboys and mastered every aspect of it . YES, blacks were the first American cowboys. Us Mexicans showed blacks and blacks showed the white folks.
@@char08fal when I say Hispanic I'm talking about spanish speaking countries that were colonies from Spain, the spanish folks that first got here to America where white and brown, not black that's what I'm talking about. 3 centuries later black people was brought to America as slaves. By that time cowboy culture was already develop to the one we now know in "America" but before that was only Mexicans, there are still people here in Mexico living in the same community like cowboy for more than 300 years. So no, you were not the first cowboys, first and real cowboys were and are Mexican. all the states where you have the cowboy culture belonged to México before 1848.
"Horse dosen't care what colour you are" ❤️
Black Cowboy are 100% Genuine American Cowboy...
No they are not, Mexican cowboy is the Genuine cowboy, cowboy cultured existed even before the first black people arrived to America..
México is New Spain and New Spain it's México.
@@baddas380 And there were Black Cowboys from Mexico. And in Mexico they weren’t called Cowboys but Vaqueros. Cowboy was a derogatory term to refer to a Black Cowhand
@@wayne47able Vaqueros or Bokaroos are the same has cowboys, the name vaqueros comes from the word cow, in spanish Vaca, Vaquero is the derivative or adjective. and the vaqueros existed even before the first black people was brought in. Now you are right in a way, black people came to mexico because it was illegal to have slaves, so a lot of black people learned the vaquero way while they were here, and then when the US started to steal away Mexican territory, they bring with them a lot of hispanics, natives and blacks that already have made their life in there. So yeah, between people from Anglo descendants and blacks, black were the first cowboys. but the first cowboys were from spanish and native decendency
@@baddas380 I don’t disagree with you Mi Hermano. If it weren’t for the Vaqueros, there would be no horses in North America
@@wayne47able exactly, God bless you hermano!
I love what he said about riding on the trails and letting the horse just go. I'm a black cowboy and I love that feeling of just riding. When I'm on a horse I don't care about anything just riding. Its God, the horse and me.
Especially when your caught out riding after dark I always let my horse choose the way, he always brings me back home safe.
I love what my boy said there, it's not a black thing it's a cowboy thing Amen brother
Well Mexican where the original cowboys (vaqueros) don’t get it twisted
Jordan vanburen Vvalker well 90% of Mexicans are mestizo and only a little are full blooded native Mexican .....
Jordan vanburen Vvalker no dude your delusional as hell ik my history you clearly don’t
@@ThroughDarknessComesLight not 100% correct, the start of the cowboy originally come from the people of Spain and Portugal. The horses we have here are 1st brought by the Europeans and mainly Spaniards. They use that on the frontier to patrol the land and herd controls since the lands where more vast and spread out than Europe lands and ideal for equestrian .
The term cowboy/vaqueros is a "new world" and the need was more vast since the US territories are most spread out than Spain. You had both Indian, Spaniards and new Settlers all acting as cowboys thru out the history of developments of the Americas.
FWIW the cows also brought to the USA and other parts of Americas, are by the same Europeans that brought the horses. No single breed of cow is native to the Americas. Even the TX longhorn is NOT native to TX.
@@kfelix2934 Spain was colonized by the moors who where west and North African and middle eastern ppl. All the way to the crusaders. And pretty much taught everything.
All those big Hollywood players , need some classes in diversity , racism , and level plying field !!
"WILD WILD WEST." -Will Smith. 🐃
Another point is that the name "cowboy" was originally given to the black, the whites were referred to as "cowhands" merely as a racial insult to blacks, they were referred to them as "boy"
TREMENDOUSLY INTERESTED it comes NATURALLY from WITHIN!!! May God bless me with my own horse and someone who loves horses. I intend to name her AUTUMN.
My dream life...
Horses are awesome, 🤷🏻♀️
It’s in our blood to be cowboys. It’s obvious. And it’s stone..
Cowboy up! North Carolina cowboy in the house
Shout out to luscious in preston heights/Joliet. Black n Mexican cowboys doin it
That's right Aman,.
Black cowboys and Mexican vaqueros....are just hot... sorry, I had to say it. 🙊
But on a serious note, country/ cowboy life and western culture are so appealing and intriguing.
THE 1st BY TITLE 🤗👀OHHH YESSSS!!!!
Awsome!!!
Cowboys and rodeo originate from northern Mexico
The first cowboys were Mexicans and Blacks.
Only Mexican not blacks
@@therapvault2375 wrong
That’s true, and the funny thing is most of the first cowboys were black or from Mexico
@@handsomedevil1974 I mean we can't really call those in Spain Cowboys. lol
@@Zay4Life No, the first cowboys were Mexican vaqueros. Then came the Anglos. Black cowboys came later, many after the Civil War.
Makes sense. Cattle herding is historically African
@@infinitedino9807 pastoral communities
@@infinitedino9807 like everything that comes from the original source with a new interpretation
Not all Cowboys or Wranglers wrk on farms or dealing with animals its an ethic a style a code a sense of respect in what you do not a place or a condition I can't wrk this is what makes me a Cowboy not a person wearing a hat and boots I hve not forgotten who I am and where I come from 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
TELL IT LIKE IT REALLY IS.
How everyone didn't know this is beyond me. When I was probably 7 yrs old my brother bought me my first pony. It was a little Shetland and was absolutely the meanest little thing you ever crawled on. My best friend was a little black kid I went to school with and me and him loved nothing more than riding that pony. But we talked about it at that young age that on TV you never saw black cowboys. We didn't understand why , but I told him that I believed that there were alot of black cowboys and that the guys on TV just was too stupid to know that. But we just kept on being the lone ranger and Tonto and never paid it anymore attention to the stupidity of Hollywood.
White love you guys keep it going I'm white love to me you guys
Hollywood
Interesting... everyone does everything one another does .. nice coverage
The spanish taught the mexican and after the mexican taught the american
That is true.
@@Dominickudo
That isn't necessarily true...
@@ALIENDNA14 OK then tell me how that’s not true.
Kinda they brought the horses and cattle then it evolved from the Mexicans to what it is now . The Spanish never had this style this style of the cowboys (vaquero) came from the Mexicans
He is right the real American Cowboys were Blacks and Mexican as well as Native Indians, but for sure Blacks and Mexicans.
Vaqueros= Mexican cowboy has been around since the early 1500s native American Indians were in America also when no white or black people hadn't arrived in America till the 1600s.
Cowboys was black . cattlemen was white ...we made it cool (black men) they take the name from us (white men)
and you both took it from vaqueros (the Mexican cowboys), we have had this tradition for more than 300 years even before black people was in America
@@infinitedino9807 maybe they were the first American cowboys
@@infinitedino9807 yeah I know that part
@@derekflores1250 Mexicans owned all of the Southwest states of America and we're the first cowboys in america before it was America.
The original cowboys were black ..
From what I have read Cowboys which means Vaqueros in spanish existed even before Texas, California and other states were part of the USA, it was Mexico. A lot of cattle was moved from the Mexican states like Chihuahua and Mexico City up North. Mexican indigenous and indigenous mixed with Spanish where the ones working the cattle. They even invented things like the cowboy leather chaps. Mexicans also modified the saddle for example by adding the horn for the rope. European saddles don’t have the horn.
Then many Americans continued the cowboy tradition including many African Americans.
The term Cowboys was used to tease people. Then, white people took the term and use it as just its own for movies.
Back then and now many Mexicans, Native Americans, Afro Americans and White Americans are cowboy/girls and participate in rodeos.
You can find a lot of cowboys/vaqueros in many parts of the American Continent, mostly in Mexico and USA Western states like Texas.
In Mexico I grew up with the culture horses, cows, goats, farming and still my grandfather with his boots and hat works the fields.
I love this tradition/culture let’s keep it alive !!!
Hugs to all our black cowboys/girls that need more recognition ❤️
Blessings to all cowboys/girls no matter the color, the race, religion or nationality
No tf they weren’t be proud of your own sub Saharan ancestry and quit trying to steal our culture
@@ThroughDarknessComesLight sub Saharan is not our ancestry either.
The first cowboys are the Indigenous and Mexicans. The word came from "Vaqueros". The European-American who brought poor slave basically copied them. Which is fine. But just get the history right.
Salut les 1G2 haha
I thought the first cowboys were the Mexicans
They are
We are the first cowboys you Americans keep appropriating our culture.
@@melaniebustamante9778 you really seem upset that black people are getting any kind of recognition, so im gonna go ahead and post someones comment that i copied since you cant seem to comprehend words. "Comprehension is essential. The qoute is roughly: first cow boys by name. The boys who went and got the cows. Meaning: that specific term was first ascribed to that group. I assume you were coming from a place of passion rather than hate and ask that you reconsider your statement".
If your saying that where’s the Mexicans?
Smmfh go type in Mexican cowboys
This whole narrative that back cowboys have never been represented and the history has been hidden etc is starting to get on my nerves cause it's not true. I got into black cowboy history when I was 11 after I saw the movie Posse. From there I found the Jim Brown westerns....the Fred Williamson westerns...the Willie Stroud Westerns....as far back as the 1940s with Herb Jefferies and the Harlem goes West movies. Ive never run out books to read on Nat Love Stagecoach Mary Cherokee Bill Bass Reeves. I subscribed to Wild West Magazine and there's always articles on black cowboys. It just annoys me that every other year NYT Huff Post The Guardian or some other mainstream publication will do an article on black cowboys and it's the same old narrative "the hidden history ...the lost and forgotten...left out of movies... left out of history books" and I wonder have they looked for the movies?....have they looked for the books?...they arent hard to find
The history has always been there! It was Hollywood that chose to ignore it.
The history has always been there! It was Hollywood that chose to ignore it.
Wow... what a bunch of lies, cowboy are hispanoamericans, not black, the first cowboys where of spanish descendants (Brown, White and Native american) some of the pictures they show in the video are from native Americans, not black people, you can not even tell the difference? Only because they have Dark skin tone dosen't mean they are black. If you feel left out imagine what we Hispanoamericans feel when we know that cowboy culture is from us and Mexican culture. This culture comes from spain and all of the southern countries practice it, with different clothes and names. but the ones that are in USA as we know them today are from Mexico, same clothes and sombreros, that's why you have spanish names, even the word cowboy it's from Spanish, we are the real Cowboys and we have differents kinds in México, we also have el Charro that is from the south but the cowboy of the north its the vaquero the one that you have in US. Black cowboys don't even represent the 1%. Cowboys are Mestizos, cowboys are the real decendants of native americans and spanish cultures.
They were actually both Black and Mexican. Also Hispanic is an ethnicity not a race so one can be Native, African and European and be Hispanic. And Mexicans were the ones who taught Africans how to ride because unlike you race and color didn't matter to them.
@@char08fal when Spain arrived here they introduced livestock to the natives and forced natives how to ranch. Spain aren’t cowboys (vaqueros) . They never even called themselves that . They refer mexico to “la Tierra de los vaqueros/charros” In English “land of the charros/cowboys.” Over centuries we mastered the ranching and lasso. And bullriding. Blacks became cowboys when they were fleeing the south they would end up in Texas which was Mexico at that time. Take note that Texas in that moment was a slave free state belonging to Mexico and slaves were always welcome . It was then , that the blacks learned from the Mexican cowboys and mastered every aspect of it . YES, blacks were the first American cowboys. Us Mexicans showed blacks and blacks showed the white folks.
@@char08fal when I say Hispanic I'm talking about spanish speaking countries that were colonies from Spain, the spanish folks that first got here to America where white and brown, not black that's what I'm talking about. 3 centuries later black people was brought to America as slaves. By that time cowboy culture was already develop to the one we now know in "America" but before that was only Mexicans, there are still people here in Mexico living in the same community like cowboy for more than 300 years. So no, you were not the first cowboys, first and real cowboys were and are Mexican. all the states where you have the cowboy culture belonged to México before 1848.