Indigenous Taíno fight Puerto Rico for visibility and rights
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2023
- Smithsonian magazine reports that 61% of all Puerto Ricans have trace Indigenous Taíno DNA, but historians in the Puerto Rican government claim Indigenous Taíno people have been conquered and wiped out. “There never was a ‘conquest’...you can’t conquer that which still resists,” Indigenous activist Barbara Pluma Moreno Torres says.
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#puertorico #taino #indigenous
Supporting Taino from 🇭🇹! We with you
I hope all the Native Americans of Peurto Rico,and other First Nation people of the world gets what they all want . I want those thing also for you all .🎉🇵🇷
My great grandmothers mother was pure Taino . Only the female lineage survived but Taino ancestry is absolutely existent and alive . When I drew a DNA sample turned out my quantum was 1/5 Taino (exactly 20%) and couldn’t be more proud to be ! 🇵🇷
Exactly! When people try to tell me that the Taino women went with the Spaniard men “willingly”, I remind them of this fact. If it were “willing”, why would they feel the need to exterminate all the males from the island? There was nothing voluntary about this and our DNA proves it.
WE WUZ TAINOS N SHI MAYN
This does explain alot on why my mother looks so much like a native
apparently, I'm also a descendant
@@Wildflower687 "Willingly" what Puerto Rican women, in the U.S., are doing is prefering to be with Black/Afro-American men.
It has been that way for a long time. Unless a Puerto Rican man is a pro-athlete or entertainer he has a slim chance to be with a Puerto Rican woman.
In Puerto Rico the Dominican men, who are primarily the ones who arrive on yolas to the island (and who are also black! ) have a high success rate at finding a woman in Puerto Rico. What good would all this "I'am 10%, 12%, 15% taino" business mean in 100 years from now?
Numerous federally recognized tribes in the US have members with less % than most Puerto Rican yet are full citizens in their tribal nation. The desicion of who is Indian is really about power and who gets to wield it. In some places just one drop makes you Black no matter how you present, yet to be indigenous more than half is demanded. While the average Taino is 15% there are many who range in the 20 to 30%.and even higher has been found in a minority of cases. The point is that there is a double standard at play and that shows the racist element. The 62% of indigenous marker is totally through the maternal side and women carry and pass down the culture and life ways. Having African ancestry certainly does not lessen indigenous identities, this argument was used to erase the indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi especially in Virginia, and the Carolinas. The Lumbee tribe is a prime example of this type of abuse similar to what Taino are dealing with today.
Yes, it's ridiculous 🙄; I have ancestry amongst the Mid-Atlantic tribes (Saponi, Nansemond, Lumbee amongst them) that are not recognized outside of the region.
I'm 11 percent and my mother is in the 20s
If Elizabeth Warren can claim Indigenous right so can I. That fake b****
B as in Blond. lol😅
The Tainos were not wiped out. There's a reason why many of us Puerto Ricans are tri-racial. Spanish/ African/ and Taino blood flows through our veins. I did an ancestry test via 23andMe and I have 15.2% Indigenous (Taino) ancestry. I am very proud to represent not only my Taino heritage but also my Spanish and my African heritage because at the end of the day I wouldn't be here otherwise.
A geneticist already proved that Puertoricans have more than 15% of Indigenous DNA more so than any other Caribbean land. It was compared to a centuries year old Taino woman's bone. However, the CENSUS review to acknowledge it. Eraser, genocide, you name it, we've faced it.
I’m quite the mix being from a Swede and Puerto Rican. I did ancestry dna recently and was surprised to see how much African, Senegal, Congo, Bantu tribes etc I had as well. The most interesting was the Taino I had (Viking on the Swede side was pretty interesting too not gonna lie lol) it was wild to see that they were brought to “extinction” with only 200 survivors. I searched RUclips to see if there was any news about Taino people and it’s interesting to see others with trace amounts in their dna. It’s wild to think we came from the last 200 people that were natives of the island after comumbus arrived. I saw one of the quotes he wrote in a journal about the Taino as well. While most natives went to war with other tribes etc, the Taino were peaceful…. Too peaceful. He went on to say how well built they were and how easily they could be taken advantage of. Some messed up stuff. But it’s also crazy our ancestors were more than likely friends 400 years ago!
@@TheReaper1 Same here! I had 15% indigenous dna, and about 14% from different countries in the African continent. Well look at it this way, for decades the CENSUS has been apart of that erasure.
For example: labeling us as spaniards during the world war, and also recategorizing us as white or black when we would identify as indigenous in the census. I'm talking about early 1900's. We were never wiped out! Thanks for sharing :) Cristopher Columbus in his journal said we were beautiful, generous groups of people...he also said we would be great slaves.
You have to read the stories written by the oppressed not the oppressors. The story gets twisted to fit their narratives at the time. We are resilient people and we are still here, it shows in our DNA. Now it's time that the Census stops denying it. Read "War against all puertoricans, a peoples history of the United States, and a personal favorite of mine "All the Indians died off: and 20 other myths about native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar". I have a bunch of recommendations if you need.
@@TheReaper1 and Still today our American history claims that Christopher Columbus discovered America when we all clearly and transparently know no he did not.
21% here and cousin got higher than me 26% jeez we all still alive today yet mixed depend ancestor migrations like I have southern Denmark located and Irish about 5% and less then there's African just 8% then theres portguese and spaniard finally last 1% cuban and 5% maya/inca weird combinations i have.
Grown up I hearing stories, but as someone who grew up in Puerto Rico, we where told that it was impossible. We are very spiritual people and when I saw my indigenous blood come out in the DNA test I got so emotional. I don't think it's necessary to have a DNA test to claim you Taino identity, but it was truly beautiful for me to see.
@@llllii1768 dunno what that means
@@raulm.danielm.4814 que los indios tainos did not built anything like mayans or the machi pichi indians
@@llllii1768 indigenous * not Indian* Indian is what they called us when they murdered over 300,000 of us
The Tainos greatest achievement was sedentary agriculture. Lots of tribes in the Americas never achieved farming. The Taino are proud.
@@llllii1768 comments like yours as what causes division amongst tribes Mayans were cousins and it’s a fact that a lot of taínos did intermingle with Mayans
I’m coming back here after discovering nearly 20% of my DNA is traced back to the Taino People. My desire to learn comes from my desire to keep my people alive.
Bro, you look wyte and talk like a wyte dude. So, I don't believe you.
My Taino DNA is 18% , def interesting would love to visit there
I'm Jewish, Italian and Greek from my father side. Puerto Rican-Taino, White-Cuban mixed from my mother side. My Taino DNA is 20% as well, so it definitely from my mother side of the family. I am proud of my Taino bloodline heritage run through my vein. 😊👍
DNA can't trace you to a particular tribe. Also some Carib people and possibly others were brought to the island
@forcegeek6705 - Sorry, not sorry. You look like Whyte boi to me. Please stop lying to yourself...🙃
My great grandmother was Taína. I was raised by her and she shared many stories and the language with me. I tested my dna and I am 33% indigenous Puerto Rican (45% Colombian indigenous) & 41% identical alleles to Atunwa Inaru. We are still here 🦜
Yes we are. I’m 28% went up from 21% so likely gonna rise. ✊🏼🇵🇷
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
This was amazing! I got chills. ❤
We are still here taino and proud
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
@why are you commenting the same thing under every single comment
The original indigenous communities are not just still here.. they are our teachers.. they will always be here. They are.. the land.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
I fight this ignorance constantly. Mi abuelita taught me who I was and where we are from. Even the DNA test even says over 20% Taino but people will still look at me and tell me I don't exist ...it makes me weep
I mean full indigenous are almost gone.
Solidarity with the Taino people. You don’t need anyone else to recognise your identity for it to be real but it would be good if the Anglo Americans and the Latinx would be confident and generous enough to see that mutual respect benefits all. Love and best wishes from anglophone Ireland, sadly I can’t speak my native tongue fluently. A legacy of colonialism and the attempt to sublimate our culture and identity into theirs. ✊🏼
😂this people are no taíno are a comunist group created to advance the independent for Puerto Rico. This people is a fake taino
Don't call us latinx. Idk how many times I have to tell people how offensive this is to us LATINOS and how offensive it is to the spaniah language. Stop the woke crap bud.
Latinx is a slur
I read the whole story of the Puerto Rican somewhere. The Puerto Ricans got their respect because we fought and won many times… proud to be a Puerto Rican
Thank you John for a facinating series!
My grandmother, who lived high in the mountains of Jamaica and passed away in 1989, was a Taino they called her 'Sister Tain'i, and she looked just like the two women in this presentation!❤😮
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
This was an amazing episode!
Thank you so much‼️I have always loved John Leguizamo but wasn’t expecting this wonderful piece. It’s so sad I’m 50 yrs old and still trying to find my truth.
Such a beautiful ceremony. I'm boricua and i honestly say i would love to join in that ritual because I want to feel closer to my ancestors and closer to my roots. May God bless and be on the side of of them all in their fight for justice and rights over the taino land.
Those folks are doing brujería. 😮
@@christominded4726 according to who??
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
@ don't see how your question is relevant to my post or the video. But what's your point?
This is an unpopular opinion:
As Boricuas, we have a large triad of cultures with some nuances interspersed throughout. It is largely Taino, African, and Spanish. We are at a pivotal point in history; we can decide to either continue placing prominence upon our Spanish ancestry and continue the status quo. Haven’t we done that enough? We speak Spanish. In some parts of the island we even want to SEEM Spanish. I say it’s time we begin prioritizing our Taino and African ancestry. Being that our Taino history is disjointed and hard to piece together at times (due to the injustices we’ve suffered), it seems like we have to attempt to keep our history, culture, and traditions alive. However, we also have to bring this into the future. We have to be the ones that decide what being Taino means to us NOW. The closest I can think of is Afro-Taino Futurism. It begs the question: what does it mean to be descendants of Africans and Tainos in 2023? What do we do with this?
I think it’s important to love both of these cultures because they both suffered in unimaginable ways, and could use the front seat. Spanish has been in the forefront for far too long. Time to start teaching these languages in schools. And this blood quantum stuff is insane. If anything the fact that all of us have even 1% of indigenous blood is a testament to our ancestors.
They are still, and will always be with us.
A portion of taínos have negligible African ancestry so one cannot paint a brush but I understand for many it makes sense being the categories are typically close in percentile results resulting in a more phenotypically tri racial result.
@@YUCAYEQUE i agree 100%. And I mean that specifically for people like myself that have a surprisingly balanced mix of the 3, (in my case slightly more Spanish, slightly more African, and the smaller percentage of the 3, Indigenous) it becomes more of a philosophical idea similar to Afro futurism. For the trigueños out there we have to decide for ourselves how we express that culture.
@@newenglandlofi4195 It isn’t a surprising result with Ricans that range from mid teens African to even as high as 30 percent. I do see the surprise with balanced percentages.
Daka Taino, let our voices be heard!
My family is from Puerto Rico, specifically Ponce area and I have indigenous ancestry as well Spanish, Portuguese and west African. Its important to reserved the history, stories, and culture of the Taino people. For many of us Puerto Ricans all we know and told is history and names of those who colonized the island. We don't know about the stories of natives as well the various African enslaved people and their orginal language and culture.What little we do know, is woven into Puerto Rican culture but it diluted. I very much support those Tainos who live today who haven't forgotten and are fighting to keep it alive.
My grandma also born from Guaraguao (red tailed hawk), Ponce! My DNA mixed with 26% portguese, 22% spaniard and 21% Taino rest Denmark Irish African etc from 8% to below. 👍🏼
I visited this location and it was breathtaking. Totally recommend.
I got tested and found I have 21% Taino and my husband is 26% and we are very proud of it ❤❤❤❤
@@indiojazzikr and I have a friend who’s very into ancestry and she told me she knows people who got 30%
@@ilimariPuerto Rico? No. Borikén? Yes.
That mean if u guys have kids, ur children gonna be higher % little bit since I learnt in ancestry two parents 21% and 26% u and ur husband got might give ur kids like 35% or around 47% depend on other races combined.
This is why it's important to do your research first before making assumptions
I'm absolutely certain that my grandfather was Taino genetics born from Taino woman. In the sense that Taino was an recognised group of descendants from South America and Carribean which inherited linguistics from Arawak and other Caribbean migrant people who were affected from foreign linguistics. The Caribbean was used as an intentional stop and block protection area of the waterways to protect the Arawakan people (nation) and other nearby nations of the 'Americas' and islands. It was a strategic marine military tribal location and tribe community of the islands. What happened to the Taino women and descendants was and is horrible. I was brutalized for not being more white, English, Spanish, or a liar denier of my genetic and ancestral situational truth.
Historians, like scientists, always make bold statements, only to find out years later that those statements would not accurate. To say completely wiped out is simply hyperbole.
Me and my father's beautiful town of "Otoau" Utuado. I pass that place many times and the most beautiful thing is to see the mountain "El Cemí" as a background. And while you drive on 111 road towards Angeles and Lares, you actually go right in front of those mountains and it's just beautiful.
I might have been born at the states which I'm grateful, but genetically I am puertorican and that Taino blood runs through my veins, especially from my mother's side. My abuela is a glimpse of the past ❤. Her features are 100% Taina, just beautiful ❤.
I really cherish all the things that these people and other Puerto Rican communities are doing to rescue the taino culture or heritage, and at the same time I wish my dominican brothers and sisters put the same passion as well. *Aplauso para los boris!!* 👏💙🤍❤
Most governments will find a way to take your land, if P.R. Becomes a State then the government can take the land when the poor can’t pay property taxes, or when someone dies inheritance tax will make the family sell their land if they can’t pay.
The goverment usa already took the land they own it americans can move in and buy up beach properties
@@llllii1768 seen a video where they were saying the island is covered with airbnbs now
Like it happened with Hawaii, almost no one who was a Hawaiian born in Hawaii has a house, they were displaced by the rich.
@@llllii1768but the people don’t have to sell their lands. It’s still a choice.
@@santos8578 sadly they have to where will they live
I have 21% Taino (DNA tested )
My great grandfather is Taíno and still alive 104.
Im From D.R my great grandfather is 101 he look spaniard has full set of white hair 😂😂 but ik he got some taino in him aswell
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
@ maybe years ago , not so much now. Reading the Bible we are scared amongst all nations. Soul is key not flesh.
Same lol white hair @@Ramfisdt.presidentePED2024
In unity, love, harmony and respect with our Taino family. It's time to unify us all as the guardians of these lands belonging to mother nature and take ones again ownership of our duty on this Earth. Receive the greetings from my sacred heart, my soul and oness with all, a sister a descendant from the Mayan, Olmec Aztec lineages. Hugs 💕
We are a people and proud.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.
I’m 28% Puerto Rican Indigenous! And proud!
Why is it so important for other people to label who we are? Really, why?
As you can see it has legal and political significance. If they are not legally recognized they do not have the automatic political power to protect their land from being taken and turned into hotels, etc
Wow that brought tears to my eyes.~~~
I met John at a book club in Berkeley he is such a great man bro. And one of my favorite actors.
My mom is Taino Indian too her grandma lived too 114 years old
Great job big fan of lenguazamo ,after watching his acting in empire ,tainos are a beautiful people
This is amazing we need to do all is possible for our culture.
Greetings from cusco. Inca
Only a DNA test will prove or disprove whether anyone has Taino in them.
Just found out I am 30% Indigenous Puerto Rican. This is pretty fascinating. Thank you for the video!
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
I remember finding out that Assyrians still existed.
😂 same. I was shocked given how ancient they are. Their language is also intact
A lot of Taínos in PR were forced to pick "something else" on the census to make it look like they were truly "eradicated".
A paper genocide.
I been there as a kid that’s crazy I’m looking at the photos now 🇵🇷
Taino males were enslaved by the Spanish settlers after 1508, and their life expectancy as slaves, was about 7 years, according to Ricardo Alegría. Even the Catholic Church, had about 50 slaves to each parish. First Taino upraising occurred in 1510 and most settlers on the Western part of the Island were killed. Ponce de Leon returned with a vengeance and neutralized the male population in Guainia.
Many ran to the mountains to avoid the white devils, while others went south, today Venezuela.
I learned today that 14.6% of my DNA is traced back to Taino. I’m mixed, so I know my dad’s DNA would have shown higher if he was still alive. I’m proud to be here and learn about this part of me.
Arawak Boricuas have always been in our blood as Puerto Ricans.
I’m Taino n still here on Earth n I have kids for the next generation to come 💪🏽🇵🇷🤙🏽
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
If you haven't read the first-hand accounts of what happened to the Taíno people... I don't know. I think it was a priest who documented what happened. It was extreme.
Yes and no, the majority of Tainos died of Spanish diseases that their bodies were not equipped to fight. They were turn to slave but since they were not used to hard labour also perished and you have the ones that bravely fought and also died. At the end they were erradicated, at least in my island of The Dominican Republic they were.
Y trajeron africanos q eran mas fuerte q resistían es por eso q el por ciento q mas se tiene es de africanos y españoles
@@KissyRitzy Thanks for bringing it up (specially the diseases). Many of this soplapotes have no clue what the taínos history is and create a show for whatever reasons. I would respect anyone who take their time to seriously study our ancestry and bring it in a responsible and realistic way for others to learn.
After doing one of those DNA tests it shows I am 30% Spain 25% Portugal 20% native Puerto Rican (Taino) and the other 25% majority from Africa and some traces from all over Europe. On my my mom's side everyone has blond hair with blue or green eyes and white skin on my dads side they are truly natives!
appearance isn’t the primary tell of indigenous lineage . Say this experience , as like you I am also 20% Taino and my mothers sides seems they would be more Spaniard/Portuguese (lighter skin , light brown hair) and my father side the prodominantly indigenous (black hair , dark eyes , bronze skin) but as it turned out my mother came out with 19% Taino and my fathers significantly more African lineage mixed with native Taino so his quantum was slightly lower . My point here , don’t disqualify your mothers indigenous lineage through mere appearance - she might be more Taino than you !
@@syeofficial2351extactly the appearance can be tricky best to look into DNA, since any race that mixed and born can be any color skins hair eyes no matter like lighter skin dude but dna got more Indigenous blood or African you never know.
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
@AntonellaBriceno I don't let that bother me. People are always going to do what they want, and no one can control them.
as a born and raised Puerto Rican NOPE they are not full Taino so no. we all have Taino blood but a not full taino.
i know right.....these ladies look like typical spaniards and southern Europeans.....so weird they claim to be real Tainos....real Natives Americans of north and south America look Asians from Siberia...example look up "Ket people, siberia" who have the same Ydna Q as Tainos and other natives of america.
My parents and grandparents were from Guacio San Sebastian. My maternal grandfather told me a few times that his great, great etc. grandfather was Taíno and that he rebelled against the Spaniards. He had to flee way up into the mountains and they used dogs to pursue and search for him. I'm not sure how that ended but my dear grandpa who we always called ' Pito ' looked a lot like a Taíno. Two of his ten children look a lot like Taínos as well but my mom, his daughter, looks completely European; oh well, you know how we are. 😅
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
How can I get in contact with them? I want to learn more about my heritage.
WE are still here!
Beautiful ❤
As a child of Puerto Rican parents... We learned from them how Puerto Ricans are of three Culturas... Taino, African and Spaniard... We always called ourselves as the "Rainbow People" Unfortunately, the Tainos of the1600's were almost wiped out by Columbus and other Spainard's travelers of the 1600's and beyond... Throughout all of the Caribbeans....
Have these people had DNA tests. What is their percentage of Taino.
I found the site. I am going to watch. The Puerto Rican comedian is talking
My mom is taino and my grandmother was most likely 95% taino
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
The odd thing is that in the mainland USA people with less Native American DNA ,basically white or black are recognized as Native American tribes .Being that 60% of Puerto Rico has Taino ancestry. They would have to acknowledge many people as Native Americans
I'm full native american from Arizona. I don't get how the American government can recognize white and black people with 1 or 2% of native ancestry as official tribes. The Native American population in the United States is 9 million and only 3 million of them are full bloods.
El video es más opinión que hechos. Todos los lugares como centros ceremoniales y bateyes tuvieron que ser rescatados y excavados y declarados lugares arqueológicos. El planteamiento de pertenencia no aplica aquí pues implicaría que cualquiera puede reclamar cualquier lugar arqueológico.
That’s the American history. Spanish history, first 8 years of colonization all the atrocities were made. Until queen Isabella prohibited slavery and the bad treatment of indigenous people. Also there are still taino people in the oriental part of Cuba. The Taino mostly blended with the Spanish.
I found it to be amazing in took the ancestry DNA. I'm actually native indigenous Puerto Rican !!
The Royal census of Puerto Rico in 1834 established that the island's population as 42,000 enslaved Africans, 25,000 colored freemen, 189,000 people who identified themselves as whites and 101,000 who were described as being of mixed ethnicity.
It's very interesting isn't it. In my island (The DR) our Tainos were indeed eradicated! The people that that the biggest % of Tainos' DNA was %2
There was also a paper genocide by labeling and generalizing those that were not either European or African as white, even though they weren’t.
Sii, algunos escaparon a las montañas!!
Leguizano: los puertoriqueños con origen o sangre taina tienen los mismos derechos y son tan visibles como el resto de sus compatriotas
They are described as hairless, broad face, with very pronounced cheekbones, lips a little thick and very good teeth
Modern “taínos” are LARPers. They were wiped out indeed. My ancestors wiped out the taínos 500 years ago. Yes some Caribbean islanders still have some Taino blood because of something that anthropologists call “the founder effect” which happens when everyone in a community descends from the same small group of founders.
I’m from a small town in Cuba. Both of my parents have the exact same percentages in their dna tests despite being completely unrelated. They’re both 9% indigenous Cuban (Taino). That is extremely high for the entire island and way above average. I would find it extremely disrespectful to actual indigenous communities to identify as “Taino” when I have no knowledge of their language, culture, customs, etc. Not to mention the rest of my DNA is Spanish (European).
Support taino from 🇩🇴
What interesting is i've read 17% Taino dad and 10% taino mom passed to children obtained 27% according to new ancestry's 2 parent's dna splits revealed.
I'm an Indigenous American/Jamaican ARAWAK-LOKONO-TAÍNO CACIQUE CHIEF!
Yea just let them live
What percent does the government want? How much is enough?
Pedro Albizu Campos spoke on the hypocrisy of the US of A...if only he were alive today.
@4:12 "Caucásica"
Yo soy taino mi abuelita era taina nosotros venimos delos ansestros del grito de lares leonardo rivera yo soy Anthony Acevedo Rivera asi mismo como rene perez semos libertadores asta el dia de hoy pedimos libertado por ell llugo de USA semos los luchadores por la libertad de nuestro pueblo nuestra isla nuestra patria nuestra gente hay qu3 peliar por lo que vale la pena lo que es de uno boriquen la tiera del grandioso dios
Agh,I would hate to see this beautiful are developed/destroyed.keep it sacred.Too many sacred sites around the world have been desecrated .It would be an insult to their ancestors .
My stepfather is 🇵🇷 Taino 🪶and always embraces his indigenous roots
Taino is on the verge of extinction. The pride in everyone claiming to be “full blood” Puerto Rican but in the same breath say Puerto Rican/ Boricua isn’t a race is the exact reason why on average everyone is 20% indigenous or less.
May this culture flourish and thrive once more ❤
even if they were no Taino WHY WOULD THEY DEVELOP SUCH A SITE!!!!
Me gustaría saber más .soy de p.R. traducirlo al español.gracias
Anyone else think that younger woman in the white dress was GORGEOUS 😍
great
The Board imposed by the USA try to sale Caguana Ceremonial Indigenous Center????!!!!!!!! Malditos!!!!!
In 1933 with the death of Tommy Soloman the NZ government declared that the Moriori people of Rekohu / Chattam islands had gone extinct , as he was rhe last full blooded Moriori . But he and others had decedents and they are still alive today . Today these decedents are recognized as Moriori officially by the one drop of blood rule .
We were conquered and we had to pretend that 'we no longer exist' in order to survive. We were assimilated to a certain point that the real lyrics of the PUR National Anthem had to be purged because it sounded too 'revolutionary'. And still today, it is sung.
Hank's Partner in detective mode
My grandmother and grandfather always told me I was Taino
What a oxymoron. The Puerto Rican Government denying the existence of the Taino Population.
Entre mas conozco a los humanos, mas amo a mi perro!
Crazy
I'm going back to learning arawak because people really have no idea about us
Btw the Taíno came from the Arawak.
Arawak is not a language itself, it’s a language group. The language(s) that the indigenous people(s) of Puerto Rico spoke is/are dead.
@@Lizzy_1819 but you know what I'm trying to say the entire time so take it and relax
I have been looking at comments from so many different types of cultures on different identity videos. This is what i know.
1. Those who claim their indigenous identity, connect with the tribes of PR ( and there are tribes) and belong to that nation are infact Indigenous
2. People in the comments no matter if its irish identity , Native Identity , African so on always differ in oppinion.
DONT LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU FROM DOING WHAT YOUR HEART SAYS> IF YOUR INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS CALL YOU GO FIND THE ELDERS AND THE COMMUNITY!
Censos realizados en los siglos 17 y 18 todavía registraban poblaciones indígenas que formaron comunidades llamadas indieras. El apellido Yambó es uno de los pocos apellidos taínos que sobreviven. Con todo lo pasado no existen taínos puros eso es un hecho.
After all of this in P. R. and his show on finding Latinos in America, John will be totally up to date on Latin history and the US diaspora of Latinos. I wonder what he’s going to do with all of that information
Im a Puertorican woman from new york. The tiano indian bloodline is very much alive. As unfortunate it can be the government is suppressive. Keep the general public aware of what is going on. God bless the island of puertorico.
Puerto Rico? No. Borikén? Yes.
Can I ask you a question. Does it bother you when people in Europe dress up as indigenous people?
Of Pocahontas can claim she is American Indian, then I am Taino!!
Sorry, but the Spaniards couldn't keep their hands off those beautiful Tainas. We needed to make more beautiful babies with them. Best stock around. That's why Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly mestizo (Spanish/Indigenous). They're already recognized in the current Puerto Rican genetic makeup.
Sorry to say but Puerto Rican females settle mostly with blacks. Puerto Rico has the lowest birthrate the world
Tainos exist, I have come face 2 face talking to them.😊😊😊😊♥️🌺