Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People (Short Documentary)

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  • @ckhid
    @ckhid 9 років тому +420

    Why do we never have videos with PEOPLE FROM OUR CULTURES giving our own perspectives? I would find this more interesting. Respectfully said.

    • @ewan5536
      @ewan5536 9 років тому +12

      Are you Taino? If not take what your given!

    • @ckhid
      @ckhid 9 років тому +39

      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

    • @ewan5536
      @ewan5536 9 років тому +8

      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?

    • @ckhid
      @ckhid 9 років тому +36

      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.

    • @ewan5536
      @ewan5536 9 років тому +9

      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!

  • @kingturm
    @kingturm 9 років тому +231

    Im puerto rican.. I have traced my dna to Taino, Spanish, and african

    • @danielbetbeze420
      @danielbetbeze420 9 років тому +3

      +freestyleking81 I'm pardo too

    • @RC-hs7oo
      @RC-hs7oo 7 років тому +1

      AntonioKingWhite how did you trace it? ancestry.com?

    • @RockoBonilla
      @RockoBonilla 7 років тому +6

      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.

    • @RC-hs7oo
      @RC-hs7oo 7 років тому +1

      Rodi Bonilla how did you find that out????

    • @RockoBonilla
      @RockoBonilla 7 років тому +2

      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.

  • @ANTPHRESSH89
    @ANTPHRESSH89 10 років тому +129

    TAINO AND INDIGENOUS PRIDE!

    • @kristineklein4644
      @kristineklein4644 10 років тому

      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

    • @mamagloria8173
      @mamagloria8173 7 років тому

      ANTPHRESSH l to

    • @CocaineDragon
      @CocaineDragon 6 років тому +1

      Mason Freer I'm a Taino and we exist in great numbers. Otherwise our tribes would look rather strange.

    • @CocaineDragon
      @CocaineDragon 6 років тому +1

      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.

    • @modigbeowulf5482
      @modigbeowulf5482 6 років тому +1

      @Mason Freer ... CC is Salvador Zarco JEW. Where ever they go, genocide happens. Now they are whipping out Palestians among others.

  • @jaysonpadilla9063
    @jaysonpadilla9063 10 років тому +107

    I am Taino! I will not be classisfied as hispanic or Latino. I have pride twrowards my people! we will forever live on!!!

    • @mortemoni4188
      @mortemoni4188 5 років тому +6

      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

    • @chad7554
      @chad7554 5 років тому +3

      @@mortemoni4188+ 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...

    • @chad7554
      @chad7554 5 років тому +1

      @@mortemoni4188+ 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.

    • @cjlion7081
      @cjlion7081 4 роки тому

      @@mortemoni4188 your some white kid in his basement with an anime logo, you need to fuck off

    • @cjlion7081
      @cjlion7081 4 роки тому

      @@chad7554 ok pick another name for your account then ya bumble

  • @awesomelion1496
    @awesomelion1496 8 років тому +56

    Remember the Tainos

  • @mig82dalia
    @mig82dalia 12 років тому +31

    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!

    • @youraveragemexorican
      @youraveragemexorican 3 роки тому +1

      Yay! :D, keep going, this is amazing! Also sorry about your grandpa. I lost mine to bone cancer,

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @oriamch
      @oriamch 2 роки тому +3

      @@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

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      @@oriamch . I can agree with that. Cheers!

    • @EndingVisions
      @EndingVisions 2 роки тому +2

      @@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.

  • @chelys2
    @chelys2 6 років тому +52

    we didn't disappear we are still here

    • @rayrivera943
      @rayrivera943 6 років тому

      Tany Chelys Ausua truth that Bro ?

    • @youraveragemexorican
      @youraveragemexorican 3 роки тому

      True, but there aren’t many (if any) pure bloods left ;-;. Most are mixed.

    • @chelys2
      @chelys2 3 роки тому

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    • @chelys2
      @chelys2 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/_F1sEzA4mRs/v-deo.html

    • @chelys2
      @chelys2 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/fNMtkeoxJss/v-deo.html

  • @anao3516
    @anao3516 11 років тому +18

    Our souls and our spirits have been passed down in our DNA! We are still here...

  • @GoJoRo18
    @GoJoRo18 8 років тому +44

    I cried very hard on that last sentence. Thank you for recognizing what happened to my ancestors. We were the first in the path.

    • @desiree568
      @desiree568 8 років тому +6

      Gonzalo Rodriguez same. made me really sad to think that my current bloodline ties back to those who violently oppressed my native ancestors.

    • @supriyakumar5914
      @supriyakumar5914 3 роки тому +3

      As an Asian Indian I cried too !!! What happened to the Taino is a shame to humanity!

  • @Jiren0420
    @Jiren0420 7 років тому +33

    All of this breaks my heart 💔, I wish would learn Taino language at school

  • @melaroha8003
    @melaroha8003 6 років тому +164

    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.

    • @SagaciousNihilist
      @SagaciousNihilist 6 років тому +13

      Oh great, another ideologue weirdo.

    • @monstaro19
      @monstaro19 6 років тому +1

      Big salute on my father's island of WAIKOPTULI ( DOMINICA COMMONWEALTH) COLOMUBS AND EUROPEANS COULDNT STEP FORWARD ON IT FOR 270 YEARS

    • @monstaro19
      @monstaro19 6 років тому +3

      Kalinago tribe

    • @AB-rq1zt
      @AB-rq1zt 6 років тому +5

      So woke

    • @RicanBeautyLuv
      @RicanBeautyLuv 6 років тому

      I have a question for you. Do a lot of Tainos use the word Bey in their names/titles?

  • @scorpionssting9320
    @scorpionssting9320 7 років тому +24

    "Find your flock and you will find your roots" Your heart pumps the blood that runs through your veins. "Taino Bloodlines" Follow your blood.

  • @lettersfromly1731
    @lettersfromly1731 8 років тому +83

    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.

    • @petergeramin7195
      @petergeramin7195 8 років тому +9

      Thats dope my Boricua brother! Sak pase from Ayiti Hispañola!

    • @Blue-jd8jf
      @Blue-jd8jf 8 років тому +18

      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

    • @rayrivera943
      @rayrivera943 6 років тому +1

      Letters From ly truth that ,we are Taino's ?

    • @moisepicard3417
      @moisepicard3417 6 років тому +2

      Letters From ly You guys are Spanish. Y'all have a ton of Latin/Hispanic/Spanish blood in you.

    • @geeganzo5072
      @geeganzo5072 6 років тому +2

      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.

  • @mermaidstarfishmoon7630
    @mermaidstarfishmoon7630 10 років тому +38

    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..

    • @alexsantana3588
      @alexsantana3588 10 років тому +6

      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?

    • @kristineklein4644
      @kristineklein4644 10 років тому

      Alex Santana

    • @kristineklein4644
      @kristineklein4644 10 років тому +2

      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.

    • @alexsantana3588
      @alexsantana3588 10 років тому +1

      So you deny having European blood in you?

    • @francissglo5224
      @francissglo5224 10 років тому +2

      most if not all puerto ricans have african in them... most wont admit it though

  • @sofiagonzalez547
    @sofiagonzalez547 7 років тому +24

    I am Dominican and I considered myself mixed heritage. My family and lots of people considered themselves mixed heritage. Not just Taino

  • @anao3516
    @anao3516 11 років тому +11

    The blood is not gone! We are still here...!

    • @deionle9355
      @deionle9355 3 роки тому +1

      you are mixed so you need dna

  • @anao3516
    @anao3516 11 років тому +6

    The blood is NOT gone... WE ARE STILL HERE!

  • @diz7595
    @diz7595 Рік тому +1

    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...

  • @love4obanai67
    @love4obanai67 4 роки тому +7

    I want to learn more about my Taino culture I’m Puerto Rican

  • @joseortiz336
    @joseortiz336 6 років тому +22

    Every time i hears tainos extinction my heart scream I'm here I'm a Taino

    • @aldwinrodriguez9589
      @aldwinrodriguez9589 4 роки тому

      Barely is still something though

    • @mvokiii
      @mvokiii 4 роки тому +1

      @@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.

    • @Wildflower687
      @Wildflower687 3 роки тому

      @@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”.

  • @01IveR01
    @01IveR01 8 років тому +51

    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.

    • @matrinigaming2137
      @matrinigaming2137 6 років тому +1

      01IveR01 but you know middle easterns have a lot of African dna too

    • @Passivemillionairesclub
      @Passivemillionairesclub 6 років тому +1

      @FUKIUTUBE amen hahom!

    • @averlist647
      @averlist647 6 років тому

      full? lol in your dreams

    • @cjlion7081
      @cjlion7081 4 роки тому

      @@averlist647 but why say it like that? are you an asshole or something? Maybe try being helpful pendejo

    • @CynthiaBiel
      @CynthiaBiel Рік тому

      The perfect people....

  • @jonjohn6287
    @jonjohn6287 8 років тому +5

    our people, our family, most important..... our HISTORY!!!!! it all boils down to truth

  • @mrsekeremor
    @mrsekeremor 8 років тому +19

    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.

    • @bamski88
      @bamski88 5 років тому +1

      We are not just waking up. Technology has now given us the ability to be heard.

    • @Hackattack23456
      @Hackattack23456 4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @cjlion7081
      @cjlion7081 4 роки тому

      @@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

  • @Kaiye17
    @Kaiye17 9 років тому +69

    I'm Jamaican. Taino are my ancestors

    • @yodanyrd1464
      @yodanyrd1464 9 років тому +3

      Sorry, Jamaicans don't have Taino blood

    • @Kaiye17
      @Kaiye17 9 років тому +27

      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

    • @yodanyrd1464
      @yodanyrd1464 9 років тому +3

      "History" tell you but DNA ancestry Tests dont...
      The average Jamaican is
      95% African & 5% Euro.

    • @Kaiye17
      @Kaiye17 9 років тому +12

      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".

    • @yodanyrd1464
      @yodanyrd1464 9 років тому +2

      Kay Whyte i mean of jamaicans want to honor Tainos that's fine with me bro

  • @Kaneki6386
    @Kaneki6386 11 років тому +12

    Proud to have Taino in me :) Big up jamaicans!

  • @ChrisNieves
    @ChrisNieves 6 років тому +7

    The video didn't really say anything at all but his last line spoke volumes.

  • @destinationsbyalexis9107
    @destinationsbyalexis9107 6 років тому +10

    I’m a Taino Puerto Rican ❤️

    • @marinadominicanaperez3655
      @marinadominicanaperez3655 6 років тому

      Alexis Colon im taína and I’m Dominican

    • @TitanFormEren
      @TitanFormEren 6 років тому

      Im a taino puerto rican and cuban. I look like a taino though (but I am still mixed)

  • @adaliccelopez2067
    @adaliccelopez2067 12 років тому +10

    I'm more than grateful for my taino ancestors and knowing my roots for I am a Taina today =)

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      Tell us, what was it like growing up Taina?

    • @rosepie0278
      @rosepie0278 2 роки тому

      If you're actually Taíno your ancestors would be upset, you couldn't spell it right

  • @MsFancy-rx1ur
    @MsFancy-rx1ur 6 років тому +23

    '2018
    Still waiting FOR CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS NAME OFF THE CALENDAR !
    THE SAVAGE MURDERER !!!

  • @ralph1270
    @ralph1270 4 роки тому +9

    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!

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      What about the other 70%? Is that part not important? You're not Taino. You're a mix of many things. Get over it.

    • @EndingVisions
      @EndingVisions 2 роки тому

      @@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

    • @jamerockbrooklyn5325
      @jamerockbrooklyn5325 2 роки тому

      Bro stop it, your not taino, your a mut

    • @nenaj1
      @nenaj1 2 роки тому

      @@MrSupernova111 let me guess…ur African American? Hater 😂

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      @@nenaj1 . I'm Puerto Rican actually. But good try!

  • @didntknoicouldchangethis
    @didntknoicouldchangethis 8 років тому +1

    one of the only good videos that I've come across, that actually skims the surface of describing how these incredible people lived!

  • @Enterthemind1
    @Enterthemind1 5 років тому +3

    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.

    • @CynthiaBiel
      @CynthiaBiel Рік тому

      I have heard that Mayans were in the Caribbean.

  • @Domingo12754
    @Domingo12754 11 років тому +3

    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

    • @lagreencucaracha
      @lagreencucaracha 6 років тому +1

      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.

  • @cassandra2968
    @cassandra2968 8 років тому +7

    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 ^_^

    • @CynthiaBiel
      @CynthiaBiel Рік тому

      Dac toca( accent on the a)..Taino.....= I am Taino

  • @sonicman84
    @sonicman84 9 років тому +30

    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.

    • @jariusisaac3766
      @jariusisaac3766 9 років тому +1

      u are correct i try tell people this stuff!!

    • @lizlizza12345678910
      @lizlizza12345678910 9 років тому +1

      Well, said!! There's a lot of people that claim themselves 100 percent Taino!! I don't think so!!

    • @mirellanapolitano9
      @mirellanapolitano9 9 років тому +1

      +sonicman84 incorrect my DNA is taino and european not from spain

    • @lizlizza12345678910
      @lizlizza12345678910 9 років тому

      Dummie spain is Europe!!!!!!! LOL

    • @mirellanapolitano9
      @mirellanapolitano9 9 років тому +1

      spain is part of europe spain is not europe! morron My dna is not from spain...but othe countries in europe not in spain

  • @danielkemble
    @danielkemble 11 років тому +2

    People were travelling to America way before Colombus!! Why is he so praised...

  • @MrJrv435
    @MrJrv435 5 років тому +5

    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.

  • @Love12Vanessacurlygirl
    @Love12Vanessacurlygirl 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @BobDaPumpkin
    @BobDaPumpkin 11 років тому +2

    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?

  • @lelairisrivera3305
    @lelairisrivera3305 7 років тому

    loving you guys.... for all the information. thank you.

  • @RyuukySaotomi
    @RyuukySaotomi 7 років тому +1

    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! ✌

  • @Crurned
    @Crurned 8 років тому +1

    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.

  • @josephmalenab6561
    @josephmalenab6561 7 років тому +1

    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

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 6 років тому +2

    Tainos And Arawaks still often get the short edge of the stick

  • @moos868
    @moos868 4 роки тому +2

    Im jamaican on a spiritual awakening my people are calling

  • @spookysaiyan
    @spookysaiyan 6 років тому +4

    Im Full Puerto Rican and i have taino dna on me

  • @pepe58pepito54
    @pepe58pepito54 5 років тому +2

    Everyone wants what they can't have or be.

  • @nellymatos5148
    @nellymatos5148 6 років тому +3

    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.

  • @BoriPR82
    @BoriPR82 4 роки тому +6

    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

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @BoriPR82
      @BoriPR82 2 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @MrSupernova111
      @MrSupernova111 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @mellowrage4892
    @mellowrage4892 2 роки тому +1

    Columbus then took 500 taino back to Isabella, starting the trans Atlantic.

  • @leecarteret3457
    @leecarteret3457 6 років тому +1

    so dominicans are a mix of Taino indigenous and spaniard?

  • @sano1062
    @sano1062 6 років тому +1

    It would be nice if a Taino indigenous person made this documentary.

  • @nigeljohn6676
    @nigeljohn6676 5 років тому +1

    I need more of this !

  • @Cacique809
    @Cacique809 12 років тому +1

    As a Taino parent, I thank you..

  • @LArecords13
    @LArecords13 11 років тому +1

    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

  • @luisfeliciano9128
    @luisfeliciano9128 12 років тому +3

    proud to be a Taino

  • @xrivera07105
    @xrivera07105 5 років тому +1

    1:15 my people didn’t disappear they were murdered or ins-laved

  • @roxannacruz6591
    @roxannacruz6591 7 років тому +1

    Hay taínos en Puerto rico

  • @patrickcummins79
    @patrickcummins79 11 років тому +1

    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...

    • @mde3370
      @mde3370 10 років тому +1

      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

  • @jarrmannkee
    @jarrmannkee 2 роки тому

    Being a boricua in cali has been tough but it made me have more love for self n my ppl

  • @stephenbamford
    @stephenbamford 3 роки тому +1

    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.

    • @CynthiaBiel
      @CynthiaBiel Рік тому +1

      They were mercenaries and sociopaths.

  • @paulparra7683
    @paulparra7683 8 років тому +1

    wow good feeling to know my roots

  • @edvalor278
    @edvalor278 11 років тому +2

    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.

  • @nannr9220
    @nannr9220 5 років тому

    Deuteronomy 28:49-50
    [49]The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
    [50]A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

  • @ReyLobo_BreezyBX5
    @ReyLobo_BreezyBX5 4 роки тому

    Where can I find the music playing at the end?

  • @Tainocoamo
    @Tainocoamo 13 років тому

    Thank You For Creating This Video God Bless You All.

  • @CM-vx5rq
    @CM-vx5rq 5 років тому +2

    Jamaica gang where you at

  • @kinglos7840
    @kinglos7840 7 років тому +1

    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

  • @Banyaman144Tribe
    @Banyaman144Tribe 5 років тому +1

    I'm Trinidadian and I have taino blood and Igbo an African tribe native to Nigeria

  • @byronscott8108
    @byronscott8108 4 роки тому +1

    Where is the bahamas🇧🇸🇧🇸🇧🇸 its sad. Smh

  • @daseffxgrow3154
    @daseffxgrow3154 6 років тому +1

    2:14 "PROBABLY.....PROBABLY..... and we have evidence of that", give me a break... English men Gate-Keeping... They Came From AFRIKA(CUSH) my friend.

  • @pepe58pepito54
    @pepe58pepito54 5 років тому

    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%).

  • @danielgonzales5502
    @danielgonzales5502 5 років тому +4

    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.🇵🇷🇩🇴🇨🇺

    • @chrisnarvaez3434
      @chrisnarvaez3434 5 місяців тому

      Puerto Ricans Carry the Highest Arawak Blood

  • @XoPlanetI
    @XoPlanetI 3 роки тому +1

    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..

  • @0dsf00fcz
    @0dsf00fcz 11 років тому +2

    da ka TAINO, Da iri ka ka ITA HUATU!!!... WE ARE STILL HERE!!!

  • @incomments2864
    @incomments2864 6 років тому

    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).

  • @jeffreyjefferton6945
    @jeffreyjefferton6945 7 років тому +1

    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 :)

    • @moniquen.torres9201
      @moniquen.torres9201 6 років тому

      Wrong!! The Taino came from South America from the area of the Orinoco Valley.

    • @luunars
      @luunars 6 років тому

      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.

  • @joelrodriguez1467
    @joelrodriguez1467 6 років тому +3

    I'm The Puerto Rican Pocahontas 🇵🇷

  • @edgardoconcepcion239
    @edgardoconcepcion239 7 років тому +4

    Back in 2007 they did a DNA test on the people from cuba..D.R. P.R. other Caribbean islands and they found that Puerto Rico had the most Taino blood still remaining.

    • @moniquen.torres9201
      @moniquen.torres9201 6 років тому

      Edgardo Concepcion and they are still doing these test in Puerto Rico. The last ones were done in 2015.

    • @averlist647
      @averlist647 6 років тому

      you puerto ricans need to shut the fuck up already, you are not tainos.

    • @josecaraballo6326
      @josecaraballo6326 6 років тому +1

      @@averlist647 kiss my ass you fucking troller

  • @riverathomas1
    @riverathomas1 11 років тому +4

    WHERE ALL STILL HERE

    • @rayrivera943
      @rayrivera943 6 років тому

      THOMAS RIVERA LLERAS always been my BRO.

  • @elisemueller9967
    @elisemueller9967 5 років тому

    why were Jamaicans bot mentioned? Always, trying to erase the fact. This video is case in point.

  • @jonathandoughty5124
    @jonathandoughty5124 6 років тому

    Awesome! I am Taino! 🇵🇷🇵🇷

    • @stormstorm7396
      @stormstorm7396 4 роки тому

      Jonathan Doughty don't look like it to white

    • @jonathandoughty5124
      @jonathandoughty5124 4 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @inarukaraya2718
    @inarukaraya2718 6 років тому

    Im still here

  • @matthewrodrigue85
    @matthewrodrigue85 12 років тому +1

    As a teacher I thank you!

  • @J1988A
    @J1988A 11 років тому +2

    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.

    • @miaa.p0v
      @miaa.p0v 5 років тому +1

      but yet again he is the reason why we have latin countries because he claimed them along with other Spaniards

  • @JohnDoe-iu7lg
    @JohnDoe-iu7lg 9 років тому +4

    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.

  • @ziggycornegan6256
    @ziggycornegan6256 10 років тому +4

    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!

    • @josecaraballo6326
      @josecaraballo6326 6 років тому

      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.

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA 6 років тому

      They came before Columbus. Read Van Sertimers work please.

    • @vitamin3076
      @vitamin3076 6 років тому

      no they weren't black go fuck off with that dumb shit, culture thief.
      ua-cam.com/video/z2zK6m2A6iw/v-deo.html

    • @josecaraballo6326
      @josecaraballo6326 6 років тому

      Shut up your stupidity, there never been any other natives here, but the one we know. go with the wrong story somewhere else

    • @josecaraballo6326
      @josecaraballo6326 6 років тому

      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

  • @elleyonaspg9580
    @elleyonaspg9580 4 роки тому

    What do you mean prehistoric people? You wrote them out ofworld history?

  • @colibrilibre
    @colibrilibre 11 років тому +1

    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!

  • @JESEE818
    @JESEE818 11 років тому +3

    2:07 dude winks?

  • @zzcoffie75
    @zzcoffie75 3 роки тому

    Arubians are from Arawak Caquetio.

  • @wassilys
    @wassilys 11 років тому

    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.

    • @CynthiaBiel
      @CynthiaBiel Рік тому

      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)...

  • @LuisCruz-tf9tt
    @LuisCruz-tf9tt 6 років тому +1

    Taínos are straight from Puerto Rico idk wtf this people talking about

  • @kittykat2070
    @kittykat2070 4 роки тому +1

    I'm not taino,but I don't understand why they are talking about their beliefs like it's silly.

  • @danilsag43
    @danilsag43 6 років тому +1

    Proud of my Taino blood!!

  • @ratedr1979
    @ratedr1979 12 років тому +1

    The more you learn, the less ignorant one becomes

  • @anao3516
    @anao3516 11 років тому

    Da iri ka Ana O... Yes we are...!!!!

  • @hek4939
    @hek4939 2 роки тому

    Puerto Rican here too grandma is we come from her so therefore we are 🙏

  • @ernestoruiz8815
    @ernestoruiz8815 5 років тому +2

    This are indigenous people

  • @isabellacordero3518
    @isabellacordero3518 6 років тому +2

    I'm 2% Taino Indian cause I'm Hispanic American and Dominican