Coyote (racial category)

Coyote (fem. Coyota), (from the Nahuatl word "coyotl", coyote), is a derogatory colonial Spanish American racial term for a mixed-race person casta, usually referring to a person born of parents one of whom is a  Mestizo (mixed Spanish + Indigenous) and the other indigenous ("indio").  
Representation.
The casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera (1763) show the place of the "coyote" in the idealized colonial racial hierarchy ("sistema de castas"). In colonial Mexico, the term varied regionally, with "regional differences determin[ing] just how much native ancestry qualified a person to be a coyote."