 He claimed to be the son of a deceased governor of Tlaxcala, and to have grown up in luxury.It may not have been true that Indio Mariano was a native of Tlaxcala in a literal sense.For the Indian resistance of the time, claiming a relationship to Tlaxcala was asserting a claim to the special rights granted the Indigenous of that place by Hernán Cortés at the time of the Conquest.