Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People (Short Documentary)
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Short film made for premiere in the IU Cinema on May 3, 2011.
Short Film Editor: Chadwick M. Hanes
Graphics: Brian Myers
Full Production Crew:
Angela Sorury
Alicia Tryon
Jacob Fisk
Brian Myers
Chad Hanes
Full Documentary Airs in September on WTIU.
Why do we never have videos with PEOPLE FROM OUR CULTURES giving our own perspectives? I would find this more interesting. Respectfully said.
Are you Taino? If not take what your given!
ewan thomas Take what you're given? LOL What nonsense is this. To answer though , no but I have 1st nation ancestry. And I visit my reservation by family practice. How about yourself? O Si Yo
C.KHiD your 1st gen good for now dam the subject matter experts just because there not the same color as us, isn't that bigotry?
ewan thomas no. it's called story telling and pure tradition. And I didn't say others can't do this. I'm just saying look at 90% of films like this. It's like a baby duck learning about life from a fox.
C.KHiD well as long as that fox is not going to eat me then I'm okay with that. Why take this as a negative state of affairs. You should surely be honoured that someone else of another creed should take an interest to such an extent where to study and learn about another cultures past. Just think of how much time these experts dedicate so you and I can hear the echo's of our past, reaffirming that we are great and came from greatness.
Simple as that!
Im puerto rican.. I have traced my dna to Taino, Spanish, and african
+freestyleking81 I'm pardo too
AntonioKingWhite how did you trace it? ancestry.com?
AntonioKingWhite I was always interested to see how much native DNA I carry. I was surprised that I do carry some taino DNA. 13% to be exact.
Rodi Bonilla how did you find that out????
R C I used 23andme. although I am still researching into this. I can send you an email with my results for you to look into this.
I am Taino! I will not be classisfied as hispanic or Latino. I have pride twrowards my people! we will forever live on!!!
Lol if that's you in your pfp your barely taino that's like a white guy who's 10 percent black saying hes african
@@ttvmortemoni1495+ that's what I'm saying breddah...
Yuh cah even close yuh eyes fi a couple seconds without these people stealing your identity, inheritance and culture or what's left of it due to integration.
Then they claim to be part spaniard, when in fact they descendants of white Irish, Scottish slaves who brought as refugees to our island, they not even Span - ish, deven a likkle bit, because last names tells it all (dem think people fool to think eldmire is a taino last name, lol?)... I doubt they can traces there genealogy pass the 1900s much less 1800s, this is why they so fixed on DNA foolishness because that allows to have some of entitlement to those islands like Puerto Rico and Dominica who have manage to retain there history, because French and British or Dutch didn't tampered with it, but we can clearly see a white washing.
Breddah bear dem deven have tawny or chestnut tone, the paleness is not the problem enuh, because we are diverse "race" of people with different color, shape and size, our people carry that hi yellow, but they claiming to be taino and they sumn else on there birth certificate the "white", they don't even have Nativity to the land, majority of them just white so we can clearly disintiguished refugees from tainos, noticed they never yet mention being Arawak? Because they going off with what they heard people tell dem.
Hear wah, this is the terms that defines distinguished taino Arawak Indian from settlers and refugees that was brought here; Fi yuh affi wear sunscreen, yuh is not taino, if yuh a gyal n ave a flat breast n batty, yuh is not taino, if yuh easy tuh bruise, yuh is not a taino, if yuh skin look pale and pasty, yuh is not a taino, if yuh ever had lowus (lice), yuh is not a taino, if your two parent dem was white, yuh is not a taino, if yuh yah man and duh have dat island boy body and lived in islands for years, yuh is not a taino, If yuh granny neva bake sum madd n badd cassava pudding, yuh is not a taino, if yuh nah no family memba a country weh own a farm, yuh is not a taino, if yuh people dem come off steam boats, yuh is not a taino, if yuh cah wine, danse or luv party, yuh is not taino, if yuh neva guh jump carnival, soca, fet, bacchanal etc, yuh is not a taino and yuh bumboclawt lyad...
@@ttvmortemoni1495+ funny thing is taino, yes it translate to peaceful one being enlightened people... This why our people always sing and dancing, right?... The term taino transliteration is sun warrior... Some of these people who claiming taino ancestry who can't stand in the sun, that seems quite ... Then is like they accepted minded of the integration of other tribes, they always try after taino. Wahum to lokono, the garifuna, kalingo, they definitely can't claim to be Caribs, then you have a plethora of other tribes I shalt not mention, because they never knew who were after they alleged did there exploration and dug up our ancestors burial grounds and tomes, and desecrated all form of spiritual temples, better they stay not knowing... Because they know it all, duh? LoL, #Tainos. They can't even tell you the original names of those specific islands the consecrate on.
@@ttvmortemoni1495 your some white kid in his basement with an anime logo, you need to fuck off
@@chad7554 ok pick another name for your account then ya bumble
we didn't disappear we are still here
Tany Chelys Ausua truth that Bro ?
True, but there aren’t many (if any) pure bloods left ;-;. Most are mixed.
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Proud to be a Tainos.R.I.P.Abuelito Oscar Ocasio Figueroa!!!!! My grandfather lived in Puerto Rico and he dug in the cavs and discovered many findings of our Tianos people.They named a part of the museum after him n I am here to keep the studies within the family!
Yay! :D, keep going, this is amazing! Also sorry about your grandpa. I lost mine to bone cancer,
You're not a Taino as much as you like to pretend that you are. Taino as a culture went extinct hundreds of years before you were born.
@@MrSupernova111 that's called ancestors, and as for the culture of course it died ages ago. It's not wrong to be proud of your roots
@@oriamch . I can agree with that. Cheers!
@@MrSupernova111 it’s the same as when black Americans tie their roots back to their African people. They may not be necessarily true African but they know they stem from somewhere. Also Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have direct lineage to taino tribes. I’m Dominican and Puerto Rican born in boriken. Meaning I am indigenous carribean but I know my people have been raped and murdered and cross bred with the Europeans,Africans, and Spaniards that raped and pillaged our lands over thousands of years so I know I am at least a small percent of everything without having to take a DNA test. I look Black, white ,Indian, and Hispanic all in one sometimes. Regardless of color. Dont invalidate people by saying they aren’t taino , that’s a huge trigger especially to the Latin people trying desperately to trace back THEIR OWN personal roots.
We are Tainos; we are not "Latinos".
The Tainos are the indigenous people of the Caribbean, including part of Florida. We are different from Hispanics and Latinos. Hispanics are people from Spain. Latinos are people from Southern Europe. Before 1492, there were no Afrikans or Spaniards on our land, or people of any other race. There were only Tainos. Some people may think of us as "Native Americans" or "American Indians". While the etymology of these terms can be debated, this is correct.
"Latino" comes from "Latin". Latin is the root language of all the Southern European languages, known as the "romance languages". From "Latin America" comes the colonial identity "Latino". The term "Latin America" was coined by the French economist, Michel Chevalier. It was a political move to ally the conquered now Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking part of "the Americas" with "Latin Europe" in their struggle with "Teutonic Europe," "Anglo-Saxon America" and "Slavic Europe". Our people have been used as pawns to fight Europe's wars, against each other.
As for Hispanic, "Hispania" was the name the Romans gave to the Iberian Peninsula during their conquest. From "Hispania", you get "Espana" and "Spain". From "Hispania" you get "Hispanic". In my head, I pronounce it, "HiSPAINic" for clarity, because the term only describes things from Spain, just like "Latin" is for all things Southern European.
There is a reason Tainos got tricked into calling themselves "Hispanic" and "Latino". After colonization began, we forgot who we were. Queen Isabella of Spain was one of many monarchs who instituted laws forbidding us from practicing our indigenous religion, forbidding us from speaking our indigenous language, and making slaves out of us. They did this on purpose. Why? For power. For our land. If they stole who we were, it would be easier to govern us, because we would start thinking that they were us.
Why are we taught to call ourselves "Hispanic" and "Latino" instead of Taino? Why don't we think of ourselves as Native American, American Indian or Indigenous? It's all political. We are taught to claim our identity through our conquerors from 1492 because it hides us from the truth of our history. When people are robbed of their history, they are robbed of their humanity. We should be proud of being Taino. When we call ourselves "Hispanic" and "Latino", it prevents us from being proud of our heritage. It also keeps us from the rights we deserve, like the right to govern our own land.
Knowing who you are gives you happiness and a purpose. If this is your first time being exposed to Taino knowledge, please share with your friends and family who are Taino but don't know it yet. Use this knowledge to inspire others to reclaim their Indigenous pride and fight for our people's rights.
For someone who has gone their whole life not knowing who they really are, this knowledge can be shocking. Some might not know what to do. We, the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, experienced genocide, leading to the death of 95% of our population. Our people have psychological damage from not knowing who we are and being denied our ancestral pride. Let us heal this psychological damage by being supportive of each other. After more than 500 years, it is time for the Tainos to wake up. Let's do this, together.
You know what "Hispanic" and "Latino" really mean now. Welcome to being Taino. Welcome to finding out who you really are and who you were always meant to be. Be Taino. Every time you call yourself Taino instead of "Hispanic" or "Latino", you are making a difference and you are honoring your people.
Oh great, another ideologue weirdo.
Big salute on my father's island of WAIKOPTULI ( DOMINICA COMMONWEALTH) COLOMUBS AND EUROPEANS COULDNT STEP FORWARD ON IT FOR 270 YEARS
Kalinago tribe
So woke
I have a question for you. Do a lot of Tainos use the word Bey in their names/titles?
I cried very hard on that last sentence. Thank you for recognizing what happened to my ancestors. We were the first in the path.
Gonzalo Rodriguez same. made me really sad to think that my current bloodline ties back to those who violently oppressed my native ancestors.
As an Asian Indian I cried too !!! What happened to the Taino is a shame to humanity!
All of this breaks my heart 💔, I wish would learn Taino language at school
TAINO AND INDIGENOUS PRIDE!
la mujer de tez curtida de una tribu borinquena con su mirar aragu/ena al hombre blanco seduce empesando asi las cruzes de la raza puertprriquena pero con la negra el fue un mezquino y sobre la luz divina el la hiso su concubine en ese hogar aragu/eno y de alli nacio el trig/ueno con mezcla de sangre fina ,desde la fria Siberia y Africa que el sol abraza y con dolor y miseria asi fue que nacio mi bella raza
ANTPHRESSH l to
Mason Freer I'm a Taino and we exist in great numbers. Otherwise our tribes would look rather strange.
Monique Norat-Torres Si, I hate that people think we're Spanish or even just a lot Spanish. I'm only 6 and a quarter Spanish and I'm very much Taino.
@Mason Freer ... CC is Salvador Zarco JEW. Where ever they go, genocide happens. Now they are whipping out Palestians among others.
Remember the Tainos
Don’t worry. We’re still here.
@@sativahmae is in you
"Find your flock and you will find your roots" Your heart pumps the blood that runs through your veins. "Taino Bloodlines" Follow your blood.
Puerto Rican DNA shows by evidence that 60% of the Island are Native Taino's while the other percent in DNA is Spaniard and African. This means that we are not LATINOS or HISPANIC, we might have Spanish as 1st language, but we are Taino's!!!! = Native American Taino (Indians) and identity is something very personal, but I identify my self as a Taino, Because that was my 1st ancestry.
Thats dope my Boricua brother! Sak pase from Ayiti Hispañola!
Not 60% pure taino....60% of the population but each of those people only have like 10% native blood.....they are still multiracial, leaning to Euro and Afro more than "Taino"....the real Natives are in Mexico, Central America and South America
Letters From ly truth that ,we are Taino's ?
Letters From ly You guys are Spanish. Y'all have a ton of Latin/Hispanic/Spanish blood in you.
No, you're not Tainos, you are hispanic. No Puerto Rican men have the Taino Y-chromosome. Only Puerto Rican females carry Taino blood. If there are no Taino men, then you don't have a Taino society. It is the men who continues the line of the race. Since no Puerto Rican males carry Taino Y-chromosome, then that means no Taino males exist. And it's always the men who continue the line of the race or ethnic group.
I am Dominican and I considered myself mixed heritage. My family and lots of people considered themselves mixed heritage. Not just Taino
I hate when people talk about my culture like that were not savage we just are more aware of spirit and we know who we are we are taino and I am taino even though people talk about my culture (Puerto Rico) being Latino or Hispanic we are taino... So anyone who calls us savage think twice and don't be rude to us..
Your ancestors are more than just Taino. They may be European/Spanish also. History is history. If you have traces of both, why not honor both?
Alex Santana
Kristine Klein los europeos? lo unico que la mayoria de los boricuas tienen de europeo es el apellidoy el idioma adoptive yo habito una tierra grande' de verdadera,grandesa; porque no la cuento en millas porque es grande en nobleza nuestra isla fue un regalo de dios por eso borinquen es de los boricuas de los boricuas y nadie mas.
So you deny having European blood in you?
most if not all puerto ricans have african in them... most wont admit it though
Our souls and our spirits have been passed down in our DNA! We are still here...
This is a half ass documentary. They being saying for years Taino Indians have been eraticated but now we have showed them thru DNA that no we are still here. There are still full blooded Tainos living in Puerto Rico. Most people don't know that most at least Puerto Rico has a mixture of not only of Taino Indians, African and European but also middle Eastern, Jewish, Asian. why I say this becuase when Christopher Columbus brought with him Jews that were thrown out of Spain. The king of Spain also sent most of his prisoners which were of Middle Eastern, Asian, and others European countries. Reason why Puertoricans come of all different shades because of of diverse DNA background. I my first cousins alone some that look full Taino Indian, some have a diverse range of features. Like the following skin range from milky white to the darkest brown. Eyes range: Browns light to dark brown, hazel, green, grayish green, sky blue to grayish blue. Facial features all ranges apply. I love my rainbow color family. Plus DNA studies done in Berkeley or Stanford University if I'm not mistaken said we have the most diverse gene pool done in the world.
01IveR01 but you know middle easterns have a lot of African dna too
@FUKIUTUBE amen hahom!
full? lol in your dreams
@@averlist647 but why say it like that? are you an asshole or something? Maybe try being helpful pendejo
The perfect people....
I'm happy The Natives throughout the Americas are waking up and educating people. I wish you all could find as much info as possible from your past, put it in a book and teach everyone how to live in harmony with the earth. This would threaten capitalism and possibly destroy the "New world Order" which is destroying the planet and it inhabitants.
We are not just waking up. Technology has now given us the ability to be heard.
Genetically Original person Capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than socialism or any other system in the world down thru history ever has. Don’t be ignorant.
@@Hackattack23456 oh boy, I think I am hearing a pompous uneducated person. Free trade and capitalism needs to be modified if we are going to have peace. America's founders had the best idea in the history of the planet, better than the Roman example, yet it has failed to contain and lift all people. It needs to be balanced with better governance but has been taken over by corporate interests and greed, it needs a correction. Libertarians know that there needs to be less government, but there also needs to be a divestiture of corporate interests from representative government to improve the current state of global affairs
Every time i hears tainos extinction my heart scream I'm here I'm a Taino
Barely is still something though
@@aldwinrodriguez9589 not true. That’s what they want you to think.
Go look up the Taino population in Hawaii. A lot of our people migrated to different places believe it or not. They’re just trying to indoctrinate and push us further away from our true identities.
@@aldwinrodriguez9589 - I wouldn’t say “barely”. Many Caribbean people have around 10-15% Taino ancestry. That’s quite a lot considering we are supposed to be “extinct”.
The Tainos were an Arawak people that spoke an Arawak dialect. They lived along the Orinoco river in south America near Venezuela and migrated to the Caribbean islands. Many of the words we speak in English are from the taino language; ie: barbacue, hammock etc...
The video didn't really say anything at all but his last line spoke volumes.
I'm Jamaican. Taino are my ancestors
Sorry, Jamaicans don't have Taino blood
Of course they do. History tells us this. Obviously most were killed off and africans were migrated to til the land. Can't deny that Jamaicans and Taino share a heritage
"History" tell you but DNA ancestry Tests dont...
The average Jamaican is
95% African & 5% Euro.
Yodanyrd you're not wrong. But do not discard Jamaicans connection to Taino. It may be faint but it is ever-present.
"Out of MANY, one people".
Kay Whyte i mean of jamaicans want to honor Tainos that's fine with me bro
The blood is not gone! We are still here...!
you are mixed so you need dna
The blood is NOT gone... WE ARE STILL HERE!
I'm more than grateful for my taino ancestors and knowing my roots for I am a Taina today =)
Tell us, what was it like growing up Taina?
If you're actually Taíno your ancestors would be upset, you couldn't spell it right
Proud to have Taino in me :) Big up jamaicans!
our people, our family, most important..... our HISTORY!!!!! it all boils down to truth
Ancestry.com confrimed that I carry up to 30% of Taino traces in my DNA...watching this is very emotional to me, because they are speaking of my origins...my real true ancestors!
What about the other 70%? Is that part not important? You're not Taino. You're a mix of many things. Get over it.
@@MrSupernova111 white supremacist spotted. You have the most comments I have ever seen online of telling people they aren’t taino. People who have reported percent of taino aren’t taino to you ? You’re literally an enemy please get the fuck on and if you ever came on some invalidating shit like that in person I would scalp you myself
Bro stop it, your not taino, your a mut
@@MrSupernova111 let me guess…ur African American? Hater 😂
@@nenaj1 . I'm Puerto Rican actually. But good try!
I want to learn more about my Taino culture I’m Puerto Rican
one of the only good videos that I've come across, that actually skims the surface of describing how these incredible people lived!
Puerto ricans are mixed with Spaniard, african and taino. If anyone puerto ricans take a genetic DNA test they will find these three mixes or even more because there was many Europeans on the island along with Spain. Many non hispanics may believe puerto ricans consider themselves as to be white Spaniards but we are not and Spain will never consider us to be them because we wasn't born in Spain and we are not pure blooded as they are. Many famous people like Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin may look like spain people but I surly enough they are mixed with taino and african or maybe just taino and Spanish. Spanish, taino and african culture is all in Puerto Rico and it shows a lot from music,dances,food and etc.
u are correct i try tell people this stuff!!
Well, said!! There's a lot of people that claim themselves 100 percent Taino!! I don't think so!!
+sonicman84 incorrect my DNA is taino and european not from spain
Dummie spain is Europe!!!!!!! LOL
spain is part of europe spain is not europe! morron My dna is not from spain...but othe countries in europe not in spain
The taino and the mayans obviously originated from Atlantis before branching out to the other continent's/countries. It's amazing how this knowledge has been kept secret for so many years.
I have heard that Mayans were in the Caribbean.
Dear sister I don't think you offended anybody with your well worded comment. DNA test can show people if they have Native blood. studies have been done in Cuba, Dominican Reb. and Puerto Rico. 30% in Cuba, 15% in Dominican Rep. and 62% in Puerto Rico were the original numbers found in the general population. More recent studies are showing that at least in PR. the average person has at least 15% Taino blood. Some in smaller numbers have up to 39%. Studies still going on. It's also about culture
Currently with the boom of DNA testing you can finally see who actually has it. I did mine. I am from Santo Domingo and to be honest, I was not expecting 0.0000009% lol. Instead I ended up with 6.6%. My mother has 11%. As far as I understand the indigenous DNA is not on everyone in the DR but as far as I have read on peer reports, also from friends they have about the same % as me or a bit more. It ranges from 6-11%. Not sure what is the average on the other islands but I read somewhere that the highest in DR could be 14%-20%. But I could be misquoting. Probably from El Cibao. Totally unexpected. And yes, there are so many inherent traits, from tooth shape to how you metabolize alcohol.
I’m a Taino Puerto Rican ❤️
Alexis Colon im taína and I’m Dominican
Im a taino puerto rican and cuban. I look like a taino though (but I am still mixed)
'2018
Still waiting FOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NAME OFF THE CALENDAR !
THE SAVAGE MURDERER !!!
I've been trying to learn the Taíno language but it's so hard to find resources :( but from the words and phrases I know so far I would say that my favorite word is "tanama" which means butterfly ^_^
Dac toca( accent on the a)..Taino.....= I am Taino
Greendevilmedia I like the small insight into the history of Taino people. I also want to thank the Taino people for Barbacoa even though it was the only thing in history to say Barbeque. I love cooking, and I live in USA where hard times are effecting all. Please keep up with the update on Taino people!
Peace be the journey to a loving world! ✌
I’m Puerto Rican and my grandmother was taino and my grandfather Spanish, wow, I wish she were alive so I could hear the indigenous stories. But I will do my part to learn and honor my heritage now
Your one beautiful Rican😍
Tainos are NOT decendants from Mayans.. Yes, they have found mayan artifacts but that was because of trade.
We are decendants of the Arawaks which are from S. America.
Tainos also traded with Aztecs, Seminoles and Incas via the island of what is now Cuba.
My native brothers we are All one. I don't care if you're inca, mexica, taino, Lakota, Navajo. We are brothers we must stand as one for this is our land. the only question I must ask. who's with ME?
Bob The Pumpkin I am
Bob The Pumpkin I.and taino of. Quisquella con tigo
Im a Tao mestizo tisoy Im proud of my austronesian ancestors we were traditional before the Spanish and American came and taino people your ancestors are still living in the land and air and sea and you be strong claim the ancestors they still here! Taino
People were travelling to America way before Colombus!! Why is he so praised...
Taino DNA is definitely there on a big part of Puerto Ricans, I read that National Geographic did a study at the southeast coast and the findings showed that individuals have around 12% of Taino blood in the proples living in that region. The study also found thaat the mother's DNA has a high. content of Taino blood. I have seen old pictures of families living at the mountains, they looked like taino.
The responsibility of what a Ph.D holder says is high, since people tend to believe Doctors without question. What the lady on the video says is biased: Columbus and his partners did not bring women with them. The crew of the first Columbus’ voyages was completely masculine. The trips were expedition trips that eventually turned into imperialist trips. Contrary to what this lady says, Columbus had no women among the crew, made out of criminals who wanted to gain favor from the Spanish crown and a piece of land in the new continent.
First Spanish women in the conquering process arrived by the time Diego, Columbus brother, stablished the capital of the New World in Santo Domingo, where he stablished himself with his family. Previous to that time there were no European women in the islands. The only women the Spanish had contact with, were, of course, Taino women. There were few consent unions between Spanish and Taino women. Most encounters, however, were violent, since the wildest conquerors would rape the native females. The small, yet present, percentage of Taino genes within the big Antilles’ population is the result of the encounters between the Spanish and Taino women. This is, in another hand, the only possible way of having Taino genes, since the genuine, non-mixed Taino civilization was exterminated by the Spanish, who not only passed deseases on Tainos, as this lady states, but also enslaved them and put them into hard work, what Tainos had never experienced, nor imagined, before.
No matter who the person providing the information is, do your research, compare and contrast the information. History is prone to be told according interests of the narrator.
It would be nice if a Taino indigenous person made this documentary.
Im jamaican on a spiritual awakening my people are calling
As a Taino parent, I thank you..
loving you guys.... for all the information. thank you.
Indeed, the white man won't tell it all and there are still pure Tainos out there living and breathing. I don't agree entirely on your statement but you made a point. The problem of the white man is really the English speaking group (anglican church followers or not) that wants to impose their views for their own purposes. Many colonists, Tainos and mixed died because of plague and pox infections decimating almost the entire population.
I'm Puerto Rican and I'm 13% Cameroon, cango and bantu people. 14% indigenous puerto Rican (taino) 23% spaniard and 22% Portuguese 6-8% jewish, 3%Nigerian 3% indigenous central America 3% indigenous southern America 3% indigenous columbian and Venezuelan 2% swedish 1% russian 1% british 5% mali, 2% senegal. 2% benin & togo
You're none of those things just because you took a DNA test. You can't test yourself into a culture much less a culture that went extinct hundreds of years ago. You're Puerto Rican or whatever culture you grew up with. Stop pretending to be something you're not.
@@MrSupernova111 so you are ignorant to the fact that many words that we use in our language are tiano words. Much of the food we eat, we eat it because it was passed down from tianos. On our island many still practice tiano religion and live in the jungle. In Puerto Rico we still practice our african roots. Have you ever heard of bomba, or our spanish roots. You are ignorant to Puerto Rican culture.
@@BoriPR82 . You're ignorant. You think you belong to an extinct culture because you took a test. By your twisted logic, I must be Cuban because I ate a Cuban sandwich.
Everyone wants what they can't have or be.
Being a boricua in cali has been tough but it made me have more love for self n my ppl
Tainos And Arawaks still often get the short edge of the stick
proud to be a Taino
so dominicans are a mix of Taino indigenous and spaniard?
Where can I find the music playing at the end?
Columbus then took 500 taino back to Isabella, starting the trans Atlantic.
I need more of this !
Im Full Puerto Rican and i have taino dna on me
I do not seem to understand. I am not trying offend anybody but how do we even know if we have Taino blood within us? It is possible for most Tainos to have escaped but you would think by now that most of that blood has been tainted and cleaned out. Yes there could be Taino blood is us but it just doesnt make sense to say we do. Yo soy Dominicana but its hard for me to believe I have their blood. We may look Native but we have had so much diversity it isnt suprising to look so. :/ just a thought
Indian(real Indian)here..i guess we are the only people who survived for 10,000 years without changing the religion or customs. Ancient Egyptian civilization is dead,Mesopotamian is dead,Mayan,Incan,Aztec and Taino cultures are gone..
I'm Trinidadian and I have taino blood and Igbo an African tribe native to Nigeria
I am Puerto Rican and I do not celebrate "Christopher Columbus Day"!! -=[
What Christopher Columbus done to my ancestor is NOT to be celebrate! To me EVERY year it's just a FREE day off school or work but I don't celebrate that day.
but yet again he is the reason why we have latin countries because he claimed them along with other Spaniards
What do you mean prehistoric people? You wrote them out ofworld history?
Definition of Mestizo
In 1519, Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes overthrew the Aztec Empire in Mexico and set up a Spanish colony. At his side was a Native American woman named La Malinche who served as his translator. Although she was given to Cortes as a slave, La Malinche played an influential role in helping him conquer this massive Aztecan Empire with only a small army. The relationship between Cortes and La Malinche grew romantic, eventually producing a son, Martin. This baby, Martin, became one of the first examples of a mestizo, a racial category used in Latin America to describe those with both Native American and European Spanish ancestry. The word roughly translates from Spanish to English as 'mixture.'
Historical Origin
When the Spanish began to colonize Latin America, they created a social class system for regulating their newly conquered territories. They used a racial system to rank people in the New World. At the top of the social pyramid were white peninsulares, or Spaniards born in Spain, followed by white criollos, or the children of Spanish born in the New World.
The mestizo population were the next highest social class. These were the children of Spanish and Native Americans. Very quickly, the mestizo population became the numerical majority in Latin America, although they still had less power than peninsulares and criollos.
Underneath the mestizos in the class system were indios, or Native Americans; negros, black slaves brought from Africa during the slave trade; and mulattoes, the children of Spaniards and black slaves.
Based on recent genetic tests, most European heritage of mestizos is traced through the male y-chromosome, whereas most Native American heritage is traced through the female x-chromosome. This is consistent with historical accounts because the vast majority of Spanish colonizers in the New World were men seeking gold, God, and glory. Given the high ratio of men to women coming from Spain, it is not surprising that Spanish men sought relationships with Native American women.
Mestizos by Country
In each Latin American country, a different percentage of people identify as mestizo. In Paraguay, Honduras, and El Salvador, more than 90% of the population identify as mestizo. Other countries that have a high percentage identifying as mestizo are Panama (70%), Nicaragua (69%), Venezuela (67%), Ecuador (65%), and Colombia (58%).
Awesome! I am Taino! 🇵🇷🇵🇷
Jonathan Doughty don't look like it to white
@@stormstorm7396 That is my winter color. In the spring to fall I am almost black with a bronze and reddish brown skin color. My mother is white and my father is Puerto Rican. Born and raised in Puerto Rican. I have my mother's maiden name. My father's last name is Rivera. Puerto Ricans come in different skin colors. I have Taino and Africa and Spaniard blood.
Thank You For Creating This Video God Bless You All.
the people emigrated from easter island and became the taino peoples...this is a new theory proposed by yours truly , but if you think about it where else could they have gone ? furthermore, other cultures such as the mayan mysteriously left their homes as well and are thought to be a lost civilization but this is only cuz the historians want it to be perceived that way ,, but there are the GEORGIAN MAYAN STONES ETC. YES IN GEORGIA...america so if thats feasible so is my concept :)
Wrong!! The Taino came from South America from the area of the Orinoco Valley.
The natives in America originally traveled from the Bering Strait (a no longer formed piece of land connecting Irkutsk with Alaska) multiple thousand years ago.
Yeah I was looking through the credits list like damn they didn't even try to get one of us a token damn jaja
Suggested reading. "Conquest of Paradise" by Kirkpatrick Sale who went to Spain and read accounts of the barbarous actions of the Spaniards of that time against the Taino, Arawak and other peoples of the region. Sale studied the actual journals of the crew who in their own hand wrote of testing their new swords for sharpness on Taino infants by tossing them into the air and skewering them on those same swords. Trade? Hmmm. Seems like it was more oppression, murder and theft to me.
They were mercenaries and sociopaths.
I'd like to highlight that the continuous existence of the original islanders is perpetuated not by the name TAÍNO, but by the name BORICUA. The original name of our island was Borikén, Borichen, Burenquen or Borinquen (depending on the source) hence our ancestors were called BORICUA like us. The name TAÍNO is a colonial term, since it means "good" (bueno), to present native boricuas as docile, though they were the most fierce warriors of the Caribbean, as told by many Spanish sources.
I think the Boricuas were docile..they were a cooperative culture....However , when they needed to fight ...for self preservation , for justice....they were fierce.....I think I saw remnants of this among the Jibaro culture,..my mother was of the jibaro generation....and I saw this in old timers on the island and Puerto Ricans in NYC when I grew up..........I learned a " Taino" word for war = GUASABARA....to me it means..We have had enough , we tried to do this peaceably but now we fight to the death..( that is the feeling I get from this word)....Guasabara,...you have lost all rights to my good will, you have shown me you
are an abuser and an enemy....right is on my side........( I hope I explained that well...I tried to express the totality of it)...
This video is poorly done: 1. Direct primary source quotes from Columbus' invasion are not used. 2. Few details about the Taino are given, just braod generalizations. 3. Events are generalized, not presented in what, when, where, who form. 4. Editorials, opnions, historical revisions are interjected. Watch IROQUA's Taino documentary, much better: First-hand accounts quoted, actual events presented in detail, specifics are given, not generalizations, and better filmed.
As a teacher I thank you!
Why is always one part of the story told?
Nobody talks about the numberous Taíno women who got pregnant from / married Spanish men?
I KNOW that both my great grand mothers were Taínas. So it's a BIG OLD LIE that Taínos are extint. It's just NOT TRUE. Their great grandchildren still walk on their ground, in Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the Caribbean. And I am very proud of my indian heritage. You can still SEE it today!
wow good feeling to know my roots
We Puerto Ricians have the most diverse gene pool in the whole Latin community and in the world. We have a huge background of many European countries and middle eastern and Africa along with the Taínos ( even thou we have only a small percentage of Taino).
lol shut up.
Jamaica gang where you at
I'm Puerto Rican but I don't know directly my ancestry. I just know my ppl are a product of generations being mixed from Taino, African, Spanish, and white descent
I'm The Puerto Rican Pocahontas 🇵🇷
Joel Rodriguez me to
Not all Mexicans view Puerto Ricans in such a manner. And I know not all Puerto Ricans view Mexicans as such either since I have love for both. My Puerto Rican Godmother and my Mexican Godfather have been happy and in love for years. This so called hate we have for one another is nothing more than stereotyping and sad. We all need to get past it.
I'm 2% Taino Indian cause I'm Hispanic American and Dominican
Isabella Cordero yep ur a white hispanic
Im 26%
Proud of my Taino blood!!
da ka TAINO, Da iri ka ka ITA HUATU!!!... WE ARE STILL HERE!!!
why were Jamaicans bot mentioned? Always, trying to erase the fact. This video is case in point.
The more you learn, the less ignorant one becomes
Puerto Rican here too grandma is we come from her so therefore we are 🙏
I am also Taino ,Note to everyone when she say Christian she means Catholic.
Thank you, didn't know Catholics were Christian's
The history of PR begins with the Ortoiroid people as the first inhabitants…. Then came Tainos
Puerto Ricans,Dominicans and Cubans carry the highest percentage of Taino/Arawak blood and ancestry. Jamaicans and the rest of Caribbean people are of predominately African ancestry and not of Arawak heritage.🇵🇷🇩🇴🇨🇺
Puerto Ricans Carry the Highest Arawak Blood
no estamos muertos carajooo..we are not dead
2:00 could have sworn that the Tiano (is Tiano a catchall for all Carib and Arawak peoples???) but I could have sworn all Native Americans who inhabited the Caribbean(whatever their actual name) originated from Venezuela, and migrated up through Grenada...
Yes! They are called the Awarak people who originated down by Venezuela and then one time when on they split up there began Caribs Tiana's chaniz was amor popular and bigger Indian tribe of the Caribbean though
Taino Dacca. Mabricca. I'm am Taino Boriken. I took a DNA and I have 68.9% Taino DNA making me Taino any way you slice it. We the Taino People are still here. We Boriquas otherwise known as Puerto Ricans 🇵🇷 are in fact Native Americans, WE ARE TAINO!!!!
It was not misunderstanding between the Taino and Spaniards. It was genocide to our people the Taínos.
The spaniards and the european's ruined the west. 😬
i guess that's what happens when your a kind and peaceful people back then. you get wiped out, only the people from warrior cultures
survives.
These researchers are a bit too forgiving of Columbus in my opinion. We need to talk about the horrific atrocities he committed against these people. Too many people around the world still think this man is some kind of saintly historical figure when he was actually a murderous human being.
The Olmecs and Egyptians aka Africans, Black people were along these areas long before Christopher Columbus ignorantly called these people Indians! He though he was in the West Indies, that's why they are called Indians, this ignorance has been taught ever since!
Can you tell me, where you found that information, cause i know the olmecs, an old mexican civilization, the only difference is that olmecs were native, no blacks.
They came before Columbus. Read Van Sertimers work please.
no they weren't black go fuck off with that dumb shit, culture thief.
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Shut up your stupidity, there never been any other natives here, but the one we know. go with the wrong story somewhere else
Shut up, didn't you heard the video, did anyone mentioned anything about the absurd claim you're making here today, you in your own dude, noone believes in that crap. You came from africa, we saw you coming out off the slave ships
I'm not taino,but I don't understand why they are talking about their beliefs like it's silly.
thats sad...I represent my Taino ancestry, but as well as African...cant deny how you look...and even I have Spanish blood as well...just dont rep it really, but i tell this same story to my friends who dont know of Taino
When he found the Taino he treated them like shit and so I treat his "Columbus Day" with disdain and anger over this tyrant of a greedy man.
Why do they call the Spanish monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand, when the real names were Isabel and Fernando?
As a son of Taino warriors, it makes sad to know that my ancestors suffered.
What warriors are these?
@@MrSupernova111 So, you didn't see the video that you just commented on; you just asked a question? Just watch the video, dude. It will answer your question.
@@RumbleFish69 . Taino's have been extinct for hundreds of years. Name one Taino warrior that you personally know or knew. If you grew up in PR you already knew what happened to the Taino culture because its thought in middle school. Nothing new here except pretentious people pretending to be part of a culture that has been dead for hundreds of years.