This video is cool, I got my dna test in, and it does show Indigenous Puerto Rico, it was a huge relief, it’s not much, but it still shows, and I can freely say I’m not completely “washed out”, growing up my family told stories that my great x5 grandfather was a native chief, they said he was very tall, dark dark long straight hair, & dark tan skin, before my test came in, I thought it wouldn’t show any traces of the taíno dna but i was wrong :)
Which test did you take? My father who was born and raised in Puerto Rico said that his grandfather on his mother’s side was Taino Indian. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and when I moved to Arizona the Native Americans that live here would always stop me to ask if I was Navajo. I know that I must have a lot of Taino blood in me! ✊🏽❤️😊
So I was born in bayamon Puerto Rico and all my life growing up in foster care I was always told that I looked like a text book native Taino and I always wondered how I would get tested for that specifically. I’d really like to embrace my roots. I never really felt included in any ethnic/culturally different groups and it makes me sad.
@@raqueltorres8263 thank you I am going to try!! I did an ancestry and I did learn I'm 85% Taino and 15% Jamaican and learn more about my people. But, now I have more questions than answers I always thought that Puerto Ricans were mixed between the Spanish, African, and Tainos, right? So what does that make me?! Am I not Puertorican then? Idk who I am and it's really scary for me.....
Hi my name is Rubén Rodríguez and I was born on the high mountains of Canovanas, P.R. I always thought about our Taino people and looking for answers to my questions found that the Native American is well attached inside of me , biologically and spiritually. I’m 59 years old and I know, remember and always trying to understand our native language. God bless you
Lately, I’ve been feeling like our Taino ancestors have been speaking to me a lot lately. I am considered 2nd generation american since both my parents are born in the US. My grandparents are from the island of Boriken (San Sebastian and Añasco) my grandmother tells me that her side is from Spain, but my grandfather is more Afro Boricua and his father looked Taino while his mother was more Black (African) i have had dreams that i was in Puerto Rico surrounded by my ancestors and being a part of the tribe. I do pass as white, but there is no doubt that Taino blood flows through my veins. Each time i hear the language spoken by our ancestors, i get goosebumps automatically. I don’t know much about my grandfather’s side of the family since he passed before i was born, but i was told by a sancista that his spirit is very close to me and i do dream of him a lot. Is there any info on the tribes that were around Añasco/Mayagüez area?? I would love to be more connected with my roots and maybe find a long lost cousin. My grandfather’s name is Luis Manuel Santiago and my grandmother’s maiden name is Alba Luisa Ramos. I know my great grandmother had Taino in her as well because she looked more “india” than european and she was born in Lares. Her name was Monserate Nuñez and she married my great grandfather Otilio Ramos. I don’t know much about the Santiago side of the family and I guess my grandfather lost contact with his family when they moved out here to Chicago from New York when my mom was little
You just feel a connection of it's in you, like a deep connection that isn't really explainable. In your heart mostly and a pain that makes you feel weak a bit too. Idk how to explain it. Puerto Rican here, I look Spaniard because of an explorer coming from canary islands and taking my grandmother' grandmother away as a forced wife. But my grandma sure looked native. Researching Taino history satisfies something in my soul. How can we join a tribe?
Hi! We come in all shades, doesn’t make us any less valid and you’re right, our people were the first to be colonized by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish but we have retained our traditions and customs! And there are many Yucayekes you can join, each tribe is sovereign and has their own policies, rules etc :)
I'm elated that i found this. I was born in Venezuela and dominican on my mothers side but grew up in new england. I never really got any kind of education from my parents about our ancestors and idk why but I'm getting more and more interested in learning about who I really am. Where can i learn Ta-Arawakan? Or is it Maipuran?
Hi I’m happy I found your beautiful channel:) Can you also teach our language cause My mom left PR at the age of 3 years old and I would one day go back to my home land. And I would love to learn of my Taino language:) Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful channel. And no our language is not Spanish that language belongs to the outer who came and in invaded our land. And I’m so happy that we are still around today and we are learning more about our people and language:)
Mabrika! (Welcome) We are currently working on a language project within my yukayeke but yes many Taíno words still exist! I will make sure to do some videos on those words :)
Very nice. Guakía jimagua Ina bué. Techeta Usa lí yamocá a, Da’toca choreto chalí a osama gua gara a guaroco naguti guakía. “We are the same. Very good to both, I am very happy to attend this movement as we remember Our ancestors”. Espero que podamos Collab en algún futuro y ayudar la causa que tenemos en común. When I say Cá, I refer to “Verb to be” “verbo ser” in spanish, and When I reffer to “Está”, in spanish, in english I think it’s “it is”, in my case When I speak my own Puerto Rican Taíno which is similar to Other people as well well then I say Toka. Such as “Toka yara gua Turey’no” “it is in the skies”. I am Techeta curious to learn Your taíno language forms. Bukíya Tekina Dá guarí ahíja a ariangoné Taíno Borikéj báaneke dá’naniki, guay! Nabori wakía ábo goeiz guarocuya á.
She's Taino and African mixed. But indeed, a good majority of the people in the country have Taino blood. As does the African Mexicans have native blood.
And she is obviously more Bantu and other sub saharan admixed than native. She would look completely out of place in the Orinoco Basin, where the real taínos came from. Search Yanomami women. You will see a real native person.
62 % of puerto ricans carry a matrinlineal haplogroup that is native...but admixture is different you may have a european or north african male haplogroup and african or European female haplogroup and still be indigenous. For example my mother despite being fair has a direct afro puerto rican maternal haplogroup but im almost a quarter native.. While another person may have a direct female indigenous line but have less native admixture.
Do you know any trusted genealogy tests? I’ve been wanting to do one, my mother was born and raised in Borikén, and my father is white. I’m curious to know how much Taino dna I have, if any. 👀
Yes! Ancestry DNA and 23 & Me are two of the very best DNA tests out there with the largest data base. I personally did 23 & Me and I also got my MtDNA which is A2. :)
If u prefer on island go to Guatu'ma'cu a broken concilio Taino or if u prefer NYC then same name but add -de NY or other UCTP etc u can find it websites good luck man.
Archaic group, they were the first known settlers of the Antilles and arrived in at least two migratory waves via canoes from distant areas. But the Taino's lived all over the Greater Antilles and even made their way to parts of the Lesser Antilles as well as traveled all around the Americas. Arawak is used to describe a language group, specifically Ta-Arawak (Ta-Maipurean) is the language family not only closely related to what our ancestors spoke but also sister tribes too.
@@taino_indigenous1199 yes I've thought about that but I've also thought about the land bridge before the tectonic plates shifted and life spread from Africa. Culture is important and before Taino and even the name "Africa" life spread from the cradle of civilization but I digress and I'll just look into your statement hahom
Virtually everyone has taíno blood in PR, dude. The same way that almost virtually everyone has north african, middle eastern, european and subsaharan african blood (which by the way is much more prevalente than the native component).
This makes perfect sense, actually, since Taino is a sub-group of the Arawaks and originated in South America, where they were heavily influenced by the Maya.
It is best to judge each other as individuals. The planet is large since we all come from this planet. Technically, we're all indigenous. The rest of the discussion is all rhetorical drama and politics. I was kicked out of a Taino Circle. I hold no avarice for these people. Many people in the world are lost today. Cultural Marxism wants us to believe that are skin color an orientation defines us. I suggest if you have dark skin you love yourself for who you are if you have light skin love yourself for who you are none of this DNA Mularkey matters whatsoever it is the character of a person that describes and defines who and what they are.. language and culture separates us.. this is the diversity... diversity like equality can not be forced it simply is or is not.
I know my grandma we called her Mamacita.. she must have been native.. she looked like grandmother willow from Pocahontas lol her hair was long and straight but my mom's hair came out really curly from her dad's side.
@@taino_indigenous1199 Can't wait! I came to the comments to see if this was mentioned. I was curious if you meant that we could try to enroll in a tribe from the continental U.S.? If so, I had noooo idea.
Si, I have a question. Yo soy Yaucano and for years up until recently maybe 15 or more years ago I didn’t realize that I was Taino and that we still exist. I would watch tv shows about places like the Caribbean and never made the connection. I never felt part of any people only that I’m Puerto Rican. After I put two and two together did I begin to check things out and now I know better. I know about the Caciques and that Yauco was were the main island chief ruled the island from. My question is, I know I’m a mix of all these people European Caribbean and African and my father is a native boricua and his mother also, how do I find a tribe in Yauco? I also read that a major university has called us the PERFECT human whatever that means, but I want to embrace my history and learn my mother tongue again.
@@Dbbrainer well if you like to deny that we still carry Taino genes then ok you’re not Taino, but as for me I am and no amount of denial by any boricua will change facts.
How can a multiracial person thinks himself or herself to be taíno. We are not the US where false natives with 15% ANCESTRY like white looking anglos with minimal admixture constitute tribes. Puerto Rico is not the stinking US. Our racial categories are not from the Anglosphere. We will never allow such things from happening. We are not taínos, we are not europeans, we are not sub saharans. We are proudly Puerto Ricans, a multiracial people.
@@Dbbrainer How can a multiracial think of himself as a taino? Easy just by thinking one is. Plus heritage bloodline. Nowadays men think themselves into any gender why can't I identify with myself with my native American roots. No seas lloron
@@christianr1941 The historical timeline in which the spaniards arrival after along with and including Cristobal Colon the italian, catholic bishops, catholic-priest, catholic friars have annihilated/genocided the tianos, they raped, force the females to engage in survival sex etc. Historically speaking if it had not been for the compassion of the Afro's and the rigid caste hierarchy system they wouldn't been able to insulate themselves within los negros de dominica, they would of been steep immensely in spanish miscegeny or wipe out totalmente into complete extinction the very barely few that was remaining of spanish miscegeny, or traitors! There were very little if any remaining in the seventeenth century barely hundred(s). Those folks in the video are only paying homage to a memory, una sangre historica, muy pequena mexcla de fenotipos. The remains of the relics, artesan pottery, rituals, lengua, drawings and nothing outside of an historical memory! Furthermore, expanding more on the cross-over genetics with los negros, if it had not been permitted or the morenos were not compassionate who helped keep their memory, historical relics alive there would be no trace. Other then in a museo in espana O francia and what the dominican society mostly spanish descendants preserve!
This video is cool, I got my dna test in, and it does show Indigenous Puerto Rico, it was a huge relief, it’s not much, but it still shows, and I can freely say I’m not completely “washed out”, growing up my family told stories that my great x5 grandfather was a native chief, they said he was very tall, dark dark long straight hair, & dark tan skin, before my test came in, I thought it wouldn’t show any traces of the taíno dna but i was wrong :)
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Which test did you take? My father who was born and raised in Puerto Rico said that his grandfather on his mother’s side was Taino Indian. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and when I moved to Arizona the Native Americans that live here would always stop me to ask if I was Navajo. I know that I must have a lot of Taino blood in me! ✊🏽❤️😊
So I was born in bayamon Puerto Rico and all my life growing up in foster care I was always told that I looked like a text book native Taino and I always wondered how I would get tested for that specifically. I’d really like to embrace my roots. I never really felt included in any ethnic/culturally different groups and it makes me sad.
Im sorry sis that you never felt included. Try to take a trip to Puerto Rico to explore your beautiful Island and your Taino heritage. ❤️✊🏽
@@raqueltorres8263 thank you I am going to try!! I did an ancestry and I did learn I'm 85% Taino and 15% Jamaican and learn more about my people. But, now I have more questions than answers I always thought that Puerto Ricans were mixed between the Spanish, African, and Tainos, right? So what does that make me?! Am I not Puertorican then? Idk who I am and it's really scary for me.....
@@jossettehernanddez3697 Puerto Rican is not a race. I once met a Puerto Rican Palestinian.
@@jossettehernanddez3697 85%?!?! Post your results on UA-cam
@@jossettehernanddez3697 la India the singer looks so taina.
I’m Boricua 26% Taino and 2% Aztec So it is 28% Native American ✊🏼 My family is from Utuado PR This video is so cool Que viva los Nativos
I'm 14% taino mom from ponce pr. From my father I have 29% native mexico. Saludos
Great video guys. I'm just happy that more & more brothers & sisters are reconnecting with their indigenous roots
Hahom, Atiao! (Thank you, brother!)
Hi my name is Rubén Rodríguez and I was born on the high mountains of Canovanas, P.R. I always thought about our Taino people and looking for answers to my questions found that the Native American is well attached inside of me , biologically and spiritually. I’m 59 years old and I know, remember and always trying to understand our native language.
God bless you
Lately, I’ve been feeling like our Taino ancestors have been speaking to me a lot lately. I am considered 2nd generation american since both my parents are born in the US. My grandparents are from the island of Boriken (San Sebastian and Añasco) my grandmother tells me that her side is from Spain, but my grandfather is more Afro Boricua and his father looked Taino while his mother was more Black (African) i have had dreams that i was in Puerto Rico surrounded by my ancestors and being a part of the tribe. I do pass as white, but there is no doubt that Taino blood flows through my veins. Each time i hear the language spoken by our ancestors, i get goosebumps automatically. I don’t know much about my grandfather’s side of the family since he passed before i was born, but i was told by a sancista that his spirit is very close to me and i do dream of him a lot. Is there any info on the tribes that were around Añasco/Mayagüez area?? I would love to be more connected with my roots and maybe find a long lost cousin. My grandfather’s name is Luis Manuel Santiago and my grandmother’s maiden name is Alba Luisa Ramos. I know my great grandmother had Taino in her as well because she looked more “india” than european and she was born in Lares. Her name was Monserate Nuñez and she married my great grandfather Otilio Ramos. I don’t know much about the Santiago side of the family and I guess my grandfather lost contact with his family when they moved out here to Chicago from New York when my mom was little
Thank you I have very little taino blood but it is nice to her something exist of our past thanks for doing this video.
Jajóm, my Taino sisters! I would love to know more and continue to reconnect to my Taino roots, to coming home.
You just feel a connection of it's in you, like a deep connection that isn't really explainable. In your heart mostly and a pain that makes you feel weak a bit too. Idk how to explain it. Puerto Rican here, I look Spaniard because of an explorer coming from canary islands and taking my grandmother' grandmother away as a forced wife. But my grandma sure looked native. Researching Taino history satisfies something in my soul. How can we join a tribe?
Hi! We come in all shades, doesn’t make us any less valid and you’re right, our people were the first to be colonized by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish but we have retained our traditions and customs! And there are many Yucayekes you can join, each tribe is sovereign and has their own policies, rules etc :)
I'm elated that i found this. I was born in Venezuela and dominican on my mothers side but grew up in new england. I never really got any kind of education from my parents about our ancestors and idk why but I'm getting more and more interested in learning about who I really am. Where can i learn Ta-Arawakan? Or is it Maipuran?
My Taíno ancestors are from Hispaniola (which consists of the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
Amazing! ❤️❤️
Lovely. Thank you for the information. I did not know these things about Taino people ❤
Hi I’m happy I found your beautiful channel:)
Can you also teach our language cause My mom left PR at the age of 3 years old and I would one day go back to my home land.
And I would love to learn of my Taino language:)
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful channel.
And no our language is not Spanish that language belongs to the outer who came and in invaded our land.
And I’m so happy that we are still around today and we are learning more about our people and language:)
Mabrika! (Welcome) We are currently working on a language project within my yukayeke but yes many Taíno words still exist! I will make sure to do some videos on those words :)
Thank you so much for responding back and can wait to see your next beautiful project 🥰
I’m learning so much once again thank you so much.
Love the video! Just thought I should say that Trinidad was Taíno/Karibé and Tobago was Kalinago/Carib
🇵🇷❤️🇮🇱HERMANAS DIOS LAS CONTINUÉ BENDICIENDO GRANDEMENTE AMÉN GRACIAS Y BENDICIÓN
Gracias mi hermana
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Very nice. Guakía jimagua Ina bué. Techeta Usa lí yamocá a, Da’toca choreto chalí a osama gua gara a guaroco naguti guakía.
“We are the same. Very good to both, I am very happy to attend this movement as we remember Our ancestors”. Espero que podamos Collab en algún futuro y ayudar la causa que tenemos en común. When I say Cá, I refer to “Verb to be” “verbo ser” in spanish, and When I reffer to “Está”, in spanish, in english I think it’s “it is”, in my case When I speak my own Puerto Rican Taíno which is similar to Other people as well well then I say Toka. Such as “Toka yara gua Turey’no” “it is in the skies”. I am Techeta curious to learn Your taíno language forms.
Bukíya Tekina Dá guarí ahíja a ariangoné Taíno Borikéj báaneke dá’naniki, guay! Nabori wakía ábo goeiz guarocuya á.
I hope you guys are able to purchase your lands. We have Kalinago people in Trinidad.
Jahoma buka imugaru adianagu. Koki 🐸!
She's Taino and African mixed. But indeed, a good majority of the people in the country have Taino blood. As does the African Mexicans have native blood.
Bantu.
"African" means nothing.
@@razackchrist5096 taking my post out of context means nothing.
And she is obviously more Bantu and other sub saharan admixed than native. She would look completely out of place in the Orinoco Basin, where the real taínos came from. Search Yanomami women. You will see a real native person.
She identifies as Afro-indigenous
62 % of puerto ricans carry a matrinlineal haplogroup that is native...but admixture is different you may have a european or north african male haplogroup and african or European female haplogroup and still be indigenous. For example my mother despite being fair has a direct afro puerto rican maternal haplogroup but im almost a quarter native..
While another person may have a direct female indigenous line but have less native admixture.
Yes! In the video we did address that but due to time limit, some parts of our video didn’t make it and we had to crop a lot out! :)
I just want to say Jajom for making this video. It was really nicely made.
Jajom D'atiao!
Do you know any trusted genealogy tests? I’ve been wanting to do one, my mother was born and raised in Borikén, and my father is white. I’m curious to know how much Taino dna I have, if any. 👀
Yes! Ancestry DNA and 23 & Me are two of the very best DNA tests out there with the largest data base. I personally did 23 & Me and I also got my MtDNA which is A2. :)
@@taino_indigenous1199 alright, thank you! 💕
How do I find a Tribe? is it based on where on the island you are from, or where you currently live?
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If u prefer on island go to Guatu'ma'cu a broken concilio Taino or if u prefer NYC then same name but add -de NY or other UCTP etc u can find it websites good luck man.
This is beautiful thank you!!!
Who predated in Boriken the Tainos and Arawaks?
Archaic group, they were the first known settlers of the Antilles and arrived in at least two migratory waves via canoes from distant areas. But the Taino's lived all over the Greater Antilles and even made their way to parts of the Lesser Antilles as well as traveled all around the Americas. Arawak is used to describe a language group, specifically Ta-Arawak (Ta-Maipurean) is the language family not only closely related to what our ancestors spoke but also sister tribes too.
@@taino_indigenous1199 yes I've thought about that but I've also thought about the land bridge before the tectonic plates shifted and life spread from Africa. Culture is important and before Taino and even the name "Africa" life spread from the cradle of civilization but I digress and I'll just look into your statement hahom
@@mr.chrissanchez6859 I highly recommend the book "Taino's and Caribs" by Sebastian Lamarche, a wealth of information regarding our people.
The Taino/Arawak in Boriken came from South America, where the Arawak originated from, and were heavily influenced by the Maya.
I’m 17% Taino. I love this video but where is the link I want that shirt 😅
Hi! It was for a fundraiser for my yukayeke last year but I can definitely see if we will be doing that soon! :)
@@taino_indigenous1199 nice looking forward to that
I heard through my grandparents that we have Taino blood from the mountains of San German, how accurate can that be?
Trust your grandparents, they know more than you think :)
Virtually everyone has taíno blood in PR, dude. The same way that almost virtually everyone has north african, middle eastern, european and subsaharan african blood (which by the way is much more prevalente than the native component).
Hello I am of Taino and Mayan ancestry how do I learn more about the taino ?
This makes perfect sense, actually, since Taino is a sub-group of the Arawaks and originated in South America, where they were heavily influenced by the Maya.
How do we start the journey to become part of a tribe as I’m just now learning in the last two years I have Taino heritage
It is best to judge each other as individuals. The planet is large since we all come from this planet. Technically, we're all indigenous. The rest of the discussion is all rhetorical drama and politics. I was kicked out of a Taino Circle. I hold no avarice for these people.
Many people in the world are lost today.
Cultural Marxism wants us to believe that are skin color an orientation defines us.
I suggest if you have dark skin you love yourself for who you are if you have light skin love yourself for who you are none of this DNA Mularkey matters whatsoever it is the character of a person that describes and defines who and what they are.. language and culture separates us.. this is the diversity... diversity like equality can not be forced it simply is or is not.
Can I enroll? I'm adopted and found out my heritage in a DNA test
Where can we buy the shirt from?
How do we buy the shirt??? Great video btw!
I know my grandma we called her Mamacita.. she must have been native.. she looked like grandmother willow from Pocahontas lol her hair was long and straight but my mom's hair came out really curly from her dad's side.
could y’all do a video about the tribe enrollment process?
Yes! :)
@@taino_indigenous1199 Can't wait! I came to the comments to see if this was mentioned. I was curious if you meant that we could try to enroll in a tribe from the continental U.S.? If so, I had noooo idea.
I’m Puerto Rican & I would like to know how can I find if I have TANIO
Si, I have a question. Yo soy Yaucano and for years up until recently maybe 15 or more years ago I didn’t realize that I was Taino and that we still exist. I would watch tv shows about places like the Caribbean and never made the connection. I never felt part of any people only that I’m Puerto Rican. After I put two and two together did I begin to check things out and now I know better. I know about the Caciques and that Yauco was were the main island chief ruled the island from. My question is, I know I’m a mix of all these people European Caribbean and African and my father is a native boricua and his mother also, how do I find a tribe in Yauco? I also read that a major university has called us the PERFECT human whatever that means, but I want to embrace my history and learn my mother tongue again.
You are not Taíno. You are a Puerto Rican. We are a multiracial people.
@@Dbbrainer well if you like to deny that we still carry Taino genes then ok you’re not Taino, but as for me I am and no amount of denial by any boricua will change facts.
The entire landmass the girl is talking about it's called Turtle Island
My ancestry dna shows im 16% Taino. Thats what matters to me, not my features.
How do I join a tribe my grand mother is taina she raised me
How do I find a tribe ?
I wanna learn more about my roots and the Arawak language were can I learn
Greetings I believe there's still arawak tribes in colombia an venezula
Tengo 22 porciento indigeno taino we should make Puerto Rico a Native American reservation
How can a multiracial person thinks himself or herself to be taíno. We are not the US where false natives with 15% ANCESTRY like white looking anglos with minimal admixture constitute tribes. Puerto Rico is not the stinking US. Our racial categories are not from the Anglosphere. We will never allow such things from happening. We are not taínos, we are not europeans, we are not sub saharans. We are proudly Puerto Ricans, a multiracial people.
@@Dbbrainer How can a multiracial think of himself as a taino? Easy just by thinking one is. Plus heritage bloodline. Nowadays men think themselves into any gender why can't I identify with myself with my native American roots. No seas lloron
Awtha
How can i know if i am a taino
** DNA ... 26% Taíno.
Not important but the host is pretty gorgeous.
Why should you buy your own land back and we are Frist and last on the lands what the creator gave us
I want a taino wife
You are very beautiful. I wish that you could be my wife. ... Sigh
I think taino people are extinct?
Our native language was ( Hebrew)
THEY ARE DEAD AND GONE!!!
DNA tests dosen't lie.
There not, there mixed with other races now
@@christianr1941 The historical timeline in which the spaniards arrival after along with and including Cristobal Colon the italian, catholic bishops, catholic-priest, catholic friars have annihilated/genocided the tianos, they raped, force the females to engage in survival sex etc. Historically speaking if it had not been for the compassion of the Afro's and the rigid caste hierarchy system they wouldn't been able to insulate themselves within los negros de dominica, they would of been steep immensely in spanish miscegeny or wipe out totalmente into complete extinction the very barely few that was remaining of spanish miscegeny, or traitors! There were very little if any remaining in the seventeenth century barely hundred(s). Those folks in the video are only paying homage to a memory, una sangre historica, muy pequena mexcla de fenotipos. The remains of the relics, artesan pottery, rituals, lengua, drawings and nothing outside of an historical memory! Furthermore, expanding more on the cross-over genetics with los negros, if it had not been permitted or the morenos were not compassionate who helped keep their memory, historical relics alive there would be no trace. Other then in a museo in espana O francia and what the dominican society mostly spanish descendants preserve!
I have 22% Taino and my cousin got 36% Taino I ve seen 40% like 3 ppl got it, technically not dead and not all are same 15% not like that.