 The Revolution's goals included returning to Mexico's indigenous peoples their dignity as full-fledged citizens by relieving them from a history of exploitation, providing them with material progress and social justice.In return for this, Mexican Indians would give up their old customs, speak Spanish and join the mainstream of national life, defined as "mestizo," the biological issue of mixed-race parentage.Thus, the Mexican "Mestizaje" has come to represent a policy of cultural assimilation.