Did the Natives of Puerto Rico really go extinct? 

Whistle blowers involved with USA deep space, say, they saw maya looking humans in deep space,. They have big space ships. Some channels say some people from that Puerto Rico area took a dimensional leap to space. Lastly people who have told stories of aliens abduction, also talk about meeting brown skin humans, who where helpful to earth human. So we can say the people moved on into another phase of life, inte=dimensional space.

@@goldleaf9324 Can you provide references or proof of that claim?

Yes I want to know our roots

Well said 👍🏻

@@MrsLopez-jq6rg People immigrated across an ice bridge from Siberia to what is now Alaska. There were two separate waves, the first settling in North America, and the second wave ended up in South America... it's all in our DNA....

We are brothers & sisters

But you don't speak any variations of Nahault

My wife and I are Mexican and Rican (her is Hopi/Azteca and Taino then there's mines Maya/inca and Taino) according to DNA both are beautiful worlds.

Boricua hispanic india n black iam.. yo tengo las tres cultura gracias a Dios así tratamos bien a todo . Cuba santo domingo puerto rico y México Colombia somos hermanos

I’m Peruvian and I got love love for my Mexican and Puerto Rican brothers and sisters…. Incas, Aztecas y Tainos 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷✊🏾

Wow! Read a tourist brochure. OK?

@@ChanaElisheva 3:29

This is so beautiful I was born in America and have always struggled with my identity after my dad passed I’ve been learning about my roots and ancestry, would you be open to sharing some of your grandmas knowledge with me?

Iguera

My mother too from utuado she was from a tribe called Utoao

Thank you for thus

Don't forget indians moved to the mountains

Ther are still here

Nunca he pensado que desaparecieron.soli edtan Unidos como grupo Nativo o etnico.o practicando sus costrumbres

Culture is still there but genetically they aren't. Some people have some taino dna but it's all very small percentages

Mr. Domingo Hernandez; I will really appreciated if you share links to that information regardind the jawbone discovery. Thanks!

@@ditaboricua3396 please search on RU-vid, Indigenous dna to living Puerto Ricans. It is a CBS news report.

😍😍

@@santiagomorales8799 thank you so much. Very interesting. I love getting information about my roots

It's nothing new. Tainos lived in Hispaniola, Cuba and Puerto Rico. It wasn't only from PR. There's a good documental that talks about Tainos in cuba.

Henwai!! Denke DaYono!!

Son mestizos de ascendencia indígena y europea... no me jodaa

So in a world in which we are supposedly caring less and less about racial backgrounds, you want to go down that route

@@kloschuessel773 You just don’t understand

@@johnnyfife3546 no, this same statement would be seen as utterly racist and inappropriate if done by a white person/european And it is in fact very backwards, no matter who says this... I understand perfectly

@@kloschuessel773 im sorry you feel that way buddy. Hope the world gets better soon.

Indigenous words of Taino natives *

Created on purpose by those that rule the island, the American government!

@@chgofirefighter it started w the Spanish govt.

THOSE ARE WORDS WE USE IN OUR DAILY LIVES... MY GRANDPARENTS WERE FROM LARES & MARICAO... SO I BELIEVE I SHOULD HAVE THAT TAINO BLOOD❤🙏❤ WHEN I HEARD HIM SPEAK I CONNECTED IMMEDIATELY, IMPRESSIVE!

there are a couple words that were adopted from native languages of the Americas into spanish

Hello Diego. Just following up on you. Are you still planning to move to Puerto Rico. I am an educator and just wanted to let you know that every university has many programs that offer help to students with different needs. In your case there are the Student Support Services from the TRIO program that provides mentoring and tutoring, also Title V programs that provide individual tutoring services and others. I have worked with these programs and saw the benefits it provided to students with the same language problems you have. Some of my students only spoke English when they arrived but this was never a barrier for them to attain a good education, make friends and enjoy life here on the island. In Puerto Rico we have a large Bilingual community because English has been taught in grades K-12 and now with cable and the internet that community has grown. If you decide to study here look into the programs available at the university of your choice. Some good ones with these programs are Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Sistema Ana G. Mendez Universities, American University, and Inter American University. Wishing you the best!

@@mayragarcia675 awesome information. I wish I had known about this when I was younger. I will pass on this information. I was born and lived in states all my life except for one year I lived in P.R. no help back then it was sad however, I learn to speak and write enough to use it in employment situations. Thank you for sharing.

@@heavenlywingz5497 Blessings. Wishing you success in your endeavors.

It's a surreal feeling. I left when I was 3. Everytime I land there, it's a weird feeling that hits you. Every time I land , I feel history. Family history, ancestors homeland, it's where I come from.

Bienvenidos todos... esta es su casa...como dijo un compañero de trabajo aqui en Puerto Rico q vivio toda su vida en Detroit..no me quiero ir, hasta el sol me calienta diferente...te espera tus playas, rios , montañas, ese precioso sol tropical, nuestras comidas ,musica,fiestas, pueblos y campos...el cantar del coqui en las noches,.y si tienes sangre boricua pues ya tienes la mancha de platano. Esta es tu casa...

That’s so cool! Blessings to you too ❤️❤️❤️

It's even stupid to think they wiped out a whole race of people. With how vast and jungle like PR is in some areas, you would never be able to fully check the mountains. I remember as a kid, my dad owns the land around his house, and his cousins, family own more so basically it's ours to explore, and me and my friends would spend hours in the mountains and wooded areas getting fruit for juice, exploring, and just living real life as a kid. I just remember how simple life was.

Search the documental "The last taino" is about Cuban Taino.

I'm not taino but I believe you.

@@jenniferaquino1729 You are right!! We ARE NOT EXTINCT! We might of lost some of our culture but we will NEVER FORGET... It is in OUR BLOOD!!

Are the arawaks in Jamaica all extinct too?

Totalmente de acuerdo!

Hemos trabajado duro en este proyecto independientemente de las autoridades. Y hay mucho más por descubrir mi hermano. ¡Hemos llegado tan lejos!

@Darrell Leon, Jaja si mano

Pues quizás deberías estudiar de nuevo en la escuela. "Cachete" No es indígena y mucho menos taíno. Tampoco lo es chiva, que viene de chivo. Cachete proviene de "cacha", mango (e.g. las cachas de la pistola) y también cachas a ambos lados de la cara. Existe en toda España: e.g. Andalucía. También en Argentina y Chile.

@@jjt1881 estoy te acuerdo, debian de informar de otras palabras que si se le han comprovado "Taino" en Boriken, como: Huracan, Jamaca, Maya(Maya)guez(Judio), Guiro, Jayuya, Humacao, Yunke, Yacono, Canoa, etc.

Loiza, Piñones and Luquillo Santurce have most of our afro culture

Ashe Babalawo Ajuawo ifagmelike

It is amazing that we are rediscovering our identity, and find so much joy in the fellowship of our history.

@@amariewalenda3801 But in Fajardo, next door to Loiza and Luquillo, you will find that the overwhelming vast majority of us are Euro-Hispano-Castillian-Puerto Ricans. Kindly notice that we have 4 dashes (cuatro guiones bien puestos), thank you very much.

African, Taino and Spanish. Que viva 🇵🇷

Paola saludos, no se de donde conozco a Profesor de UPR Utuado o de UPR Mayagüez

Same here. Colegio de Mayagüez.

Even in western culture "progress" has abandoned all our ethnic traditional ways. We all have to find a way to make the traditional and modern co-exist and have synergy. It is the same with going back to nature. We don't have to give up all the modern things, but we should remember where we came from.

@@theviceroyofreality7073 You're leaving out the African ancestry.

@@theviceroyofreality7073 Every single percentage is equally important. It makes us who we are. And we shouldn't feel bad or made feel small if we want to celebrate them, remark on them or learn about them equally.

That is colonization. They did the same thing in India with McCaulay's English education act

@@dayalaver64 I embrace my Taino and African ancestors. We are connected to them, they have brought us to this point. We came in as enslaved Africans distributed around the world. The fact that we exsist is a miracle.

What’s about the other 70%?

​@@sheldonbradley5891Es español y africano

Does your DNA said that? Because mine says I am 4pct indigenous, 3 pct African and 93pct European.... 35pct is very high and it is the highest I ve seen.... I don't believe it until I see it, because I ve never heard a number that high.

@@FreeBrainChannel just to chime in, according to Dr. Martinez Cruzado in his dna study, he said the average indigenous dna was between 15 and 23% he reported finding a small minority with 34% . I'm just repeating the findings of his study, My indigenous dna is 16% .

​@@Domingo12754 thanks for the info... I took Genetics with Prof Squire and Prof Martinez Cruzado was around at the time... Love his findings...

Which test did you take? I got 40% Indigenous (:

@@cheshirepussy6254 Wow, Ancestry...

Every puertorican is Taino....

@@christorres9964 not every Puerto Rican is. But it's nice that indigenous roots are honored.

@@lucymercado66 TODO Puertorriqueño tiene las tres ADNs....

Except genetic tests show the vast majority of Puerto Rican’s have native ancestry. For the most part every Puerto Rican whose family is from the island is Taino

@@Dd214medaddy thank you!

Which company did you use?

It did said exactly Taíno?

My son gave me an Ancestry kit, when my result came in, my predominant DNA revealed that I am 29% Portuguese, 25% Spaniard and 22% Native Indian. I was born in the western part of the island of Puerto Rico. This confirms the Taino Indian still living and has not been completely exterminated as we have been taught in our schools and history. Mi hijo me regaló un kit de Ancestry, cuando llegó mi resultado mi ADN que predomina reveló que yo soy 25% portugués, 21% español y 27% indio nativo (Taino). Yo nací en la parte oeste de la isla de Puerto Rico. Esto confirma el indio Taino todavía sigue viviendo y no ha sido exterminado completamente como se nos ha enseñado en nuestras escuelas e historia. ¡Saludos!

@@msolav63 oh ok. I’ll look at Ancestry. There’s several DNA companies and I wanted to see which is best.

@@justkidding7523 If you catch the special, you can get it for $59 dollars from Ancestry. If not, 23 and Me might be better at full price.

Just because your father says "guacamayo" or "guayaba" does not an "indigenous" make.

Please tell us about your Taino culture. Do you still live in a cave?

My family (both sides) came from near yours, at the northern border between Jayuya and Ponce, deep in the mountains. My parents were the first generation in our families ever to leave the island, I am part of the first generation born outside of the island. In Mt entire life I've been to PR about 3 times to visit extended family. I was supposed to go again last fall, but Covid killed my plans.

@@MrSupernova111 - Tainos did not live in caves. They lived in huts called “Bohios”, but good to know you still haven’t done your research LOL

@@Wildflower687 . Then you also know Tainos prayed to the god Atabey. Which one of you "Neo-Tainos" pray to the god Atabey? Just because you can put on face paint and dance around a camp fire half naked doesn't make you Taino culturally. Get it through your thick head.

Ay por favor!Bien por ti si te sientes. puertorriqueño.Uno es lo que quiere.Eres norteamericano de ascendencia puertorrique ppueña.Eres bicultural.Soy puertorriqueño.hablo español y mis ancestros son taino.español yafricano.y 100 añoscon los gringo no me hacen sentirme norteamericano.Eres de donde te cries no de donde naces.

The blood that runs through your veins are those of your father that is good enough.Never deny it

and tainos came from south america? whats your point? spanish is part of the puerto rican culture. go fucking learn it

@MIKE TEE. oh stop with the Africa Bullsh!t narrative! Your playing the Columbus lie in the African version! Indian Chiefs were banging drum beats way before Africans even knew the west existed. There are pyramids in the Americas older than the pyramids in Egypt, so go sell your sand somewhere else!

@@UnDeAdSpRaYe Did you teach yourself the language or did you acquire it when you were a child because your parents spoke it to you? It takes an adult 5-7 YEARS of dedication and study of a language to be fully fluent in it. It's not easy.

Your skin tone is white so how can you have any naive in you than you say Jamaica 😂

You know nothing about a stranger. But, I used to argue with strangers online until one day I realized it's childish. So, may you find what you're searching for. I'll take no part in this negative conversation any longer. Ain't no entity stealing my joy today. ☀️🧿☀️

No such thing as Arawak “Indians”.. Indians are Asians .. nothing to do with Puerto Rico

How did Puertoricans go from a beautiful Island to a concrete Jungle like NY?? Weird transition.

You're not born in Puerto RIco? Then you're not Puerto RIcan. Punto y se acabo. My brother-in-law's parents were from the UK, but he was born in Princeton (NJ). Guess what? He's not a Brit!!! He's 100% gringo...just like you. Take pride in your birthplace. NYC is a great city!!!

@@techevar Thats also part of our history. Sadly Puerto Rico has always been an oppressed island. It is said its the oldest Colony. Many puertoricans moved to NY and other states with the "american dream" in mind, hoping they can take their family out of poverty. It keeps happening to this day. If you listen to some of our music and poems like "Boricua en la luna" and "Los cerebros que se van y el corazón que se queda", you would find a lot of stuff inspired by this struggle of leaving the land we love so much.

Its amazing that you are seeking knowledge of our ancestors. We need more people that love our land and that can take an active part in this new historical event. Lets protect our land and make our ancestors proud🙏🏾

​@@drinksnapple8997 bro most Puerto Ricans that are 2nd generation identify with calling themselves Puerto Rican because we aren't that far removed from the island we are just an extension to it , we aren't diluted we are the traveling team who created a chapter of our culture in the states . nobody is American because we are all from another place in this world that's WHY ITS called a melting pot and its diversity is rich in different cultures and people. the indigenous are the real Americans therefore the people saying what they are because its how they feel and its in the blood. you can't take away from them because you decide where a person is born automatically has to identify as that . there's a saying in Puerto rico for puertoricans around the world. BORICUA AUNQUE NACERIA EN LA LUNA . nobody wants to be called American because American is not a race . its a stolen land that has a very horrible past , only white people say they're American because the ones who stole and massacred the Americans. FOH

Puerto Ricans and Dominicans come from the same tribe (Awarack) that fractured (split) in the Caribbean. We (Puerto Ricans) refer to Dominicans as our brothers/sisters of the Caribbean.

You can't identify as something that you've never been just because you took a DNA test. Culture is something you experience - not something you test for.

Yo me infle de orgullo

Ridículos.

Siii!! Igual para mi! ❤️

@@hoyola1 hahaha... Porque ridiculos? Pues, no todos son Tainos si se refiere a eso. Hay mucha decendencia judia, que muchos no saben tambien. Se ve en mucho en los apellidos.

I learned spanish on my own and in school...I understand most of it and can speak it fine but I do lament that Ill never have a puerto rican accent in spanish. Wish my family had spoken it more to us growing up, but both my parents and their siblings had a hard time in school when they only spoke spanish at home so I guess they wanted us to not go through those growing pains of not learning english till school.

OMG. Your story is almost like mine. Both parents born in PR, my sisters and I stateside (and overseas, my father was military). My Spanish is the equivalent of an 8yr olds. Lol That's just speaking though. I can read it a lot better, write it some. Growing up I was the translator for my mother. Her English still isn't that great, although she's been in the States for many decades now. I grew up speaking Spanish until age 4-5. Then our father forbid it because he said it would mess us up in school. After that I was speaking Spanglish for a good long while, and eventually the Spanish was mostly dropped except for the times I had to translate for my mother.

@@vianjelos I tried that, but I learned the hard way that the Spanish taught in school (Castillian Spanish) is not the same as Puerto Rican Spanish. I was threatened with failure if I answered any questions in Puerto Rican dialect and not Castillian. I ended up dropping out for two reasons. One, I wanted to learn the PR dialect, not Castillian, but mostly because my teacher who was actually a Spaniard from Spain, let me know unmistakably how much disdain she had for us "impure" Latinos. When she found out I was PR, I got dirty looks and open hostility from her. I wasn't about to subject myself to a whole year of that crap. 😒

Rose always be proud of your heritage , is never late to learn more spanish.

I'm almost 60. First generation of my family to be born in the states. My father didn't allow Spanish. My Ma used some words but not full sentences. I took 2 yrs of Spanish in H.S. but failed. Languages are hard for me to learn. As I got older I worked with Mexicans that I practiced with. It wasn't until I decided to live in PR at age 45 were I got a bit better. Mostly through music with subtitles and an app called Duolingo.

Cuba, especially the oriental part of Cuba.

I believe there is an El Yunque in Cuba. Look up the video on YT the last Indians in Cuba

it is slang, I don't know wtf this dude talking about lol

Dame Chin chin. Un poquito

I couldn’t agree with you more!! Im so eager to hear the proper history of our indigenous ancestors…Our bloodline!

Yes. We can't ever lose touch with that. I wanna learn more about their spirituality as well

Dulce amaya to be fair the Taino blood in Puerto Rico population is less than 10 % . Most Puerto Rican have a lot European and African blood. The Taino is very minimal .

Are you going to start wearing face paint and dancing around fires to pretend to be something you're not?

@@MrSupernova111 what you wanna steal the rest of the land why you worried about it

not really a good thing it a remender of the dark past

Our DNA is surprisingly intact.

Yup.

0.0% de "Taino" in me. Zero. De indio, nada. Oh I have some North African (7%), but everyone with Mediterranean roots, whether Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Greece..., all have North African. In the Mediterranean everyone shares DNA.

@@drinksnapple8997 your point?

Es cuestion de salir y hablar con nusstros viejos en el campo y en las montañas porque con los americanos al mando no obtendremos nada.

@@beautifulbutterfly140 no solo eso es que nos cambiaron la historia a como les dio la gana. Yo lo recuerdo clarito "no tenemos recursos no podemos y nos morimos de hambre" por favor. Con lo talentosos que somos.

@MIKE TEE. I am not so sure you are correct...africans arrived as slaves indigenous tribes populated the americas long before that.

@MIKE TEE. Taínos travel from Venezuela & Colombia to Puerto Rico. From Puerto Rico to Cuba. And from Cuba to Florida. Maybe that is why some people would have said what you previously mention. In terms in Culture in PR ( If you ware reffering to the island) Africans contributed to so much. From language to food and dances. We love our culture. Witch mean we are more than proud of our race. Btw, Please stay Safe during this pandemic and holidays .

@@beautifulbutterfly140 That's not what MIKE TEE is trying to say . He's a psuedo fake ABO trying to steal Taino & Puerto Rican history. They do this all the time. However, there's groups of people out there that are specifically Black American claiming to be the first Tainos, the first Olmecs, the first Aztecs etc. And downplaying the middle passage slave trade. They're claiming the Tainos, the Olmecs, Aztecs etc were African and that they were already here. And that the slave trade never happened or claiming very little slaves were brought to the Americas. Which is lies. Ignore him...

Its great to read your comment but just understand that this movement is somewhat hypocritical because it seaks out against those very same things you want: language & music not native to PR i.e. the Spanish language & Music from Spain.

Bebesito

Gracias por hacer saber al mundo que nunca fuimos extintos y que hemos seguido aqui durante siglos.

🔥🐍🔺️👁🔺️🐍🔥

LOL at the Bad Bunny comment, I hear ya!

Hi I am as well and I can relate to exactly what you commented. Mi sentimentos son iguales. Gracias Papa Dios por nuestra Isla del Cordelo Boriqueña.

Amo Mi isla del encanto puertoriqueña asta la muerte.

Many puerto ricans already know the information contained in this video and I’m surprised that so many don’t. My family has been talking about this for as long as I can remember. My grandmother has told me stories of when she was a little girl in quebradillas, Puerto Rico there were still tainos living in bohios and that they grew many indigenous crops like yucca and malanga. They would sell these crops in town.

@@GianniAzul3609 😍😍😍 Me gustaría saber mas😢😭 Soy de carolina btw

@@GianniAzul3609 my maternal family is from Hatillo P.R., and through the yrs I've also heard many similar stories from elder relatives of mine, sadly they have all passed. I have done my best to try to teach these and other info I've stumbled upon to my daughter and the young generations.

@@yankeeed15pr it is getting loss...we need establish a real work process to officialize this findings ...like establish in each municipality an office to gather in writing the word of mouth. Take pictures of those that are positive of their heritage.

Yes its very wrong to imagine indigenous words being slang. A whole lot of the brazilian portuguese dictionary would be missing. That being said, these people aren't indigenous, but descendants of european and indigenous peoples

The land will speak to you........do not ask me why......I believe the DNA of a people that lived so long is in the land...and that DNA speaks..

You won't happen to know from what town they were?

Well lm confuse cause my DNA is 4o percent Spain lo percent French so what the heck we got everything on us Europe African and god knows what else almost all my family got green blue light brown and black eyes but the most are green eyes l don't know what to think anymore confuse as hell

You can't revive an extinct culture. You can only reimagine it and at that point its no longer the original culture.

@@MrSupernova111 Why exactly are you getting so upset about this?

@@richarddoe5674 . Why exactly are you bothering me?

@@MrSupernova111 Bro, if you're getting this pissed off about people ravishing in their heritage, I'm willing to wager pretty much everything bothers you.

@@richarddoe5674 . Did I say I was "pissed off?" Only in your small brain anyone who disagrees with you is "pissed off."

Correcto

Crack open a book. They still can be found in libraries. They have sources and references that you can verify to insure you get the real info. The internet, specially social media is in no way a credible source of much. You can also get them from the internet if you must but be wary it is not safe in here.

Asiiii, asi se habla. creo q ella esta empujando una agenda rara.

Yeap. In elementary school they start teaching us that Taínos are extinct but they live through us because we carry the gens. They know a bit about taínos believes but the culture and practices from them got lost so I guess that also helped to the believe of extinction. They show us some drawings and words from the taínos, their meanings and how some words we still use in our daily basis. But like she say, a lot of other words and expressions we use daily that people consider are a "slang language" we have no idea were actually taíno "I guess our teachers don't know neither". This video is very refreshing. I wish they could find people with higher and higher taíno gens. I know a family that I've always say they most have taíno blood like no other. One specifically is medium dark skin, yet black straight hair, but the descendants from this family have in common their face features. Very similar to the way artists described taínos in their drawings.

Yeap. I remember visiting the Tribes Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Ponce back in 1998. They were trying to tell us that all indigenous Puerto Ricans died and the "indigenous looking Puerto Ricans" only looked that way because they were descendents of the Moors or Africans. My grandmother would shake her head and say "that's not true." The irony was the guy who was telling us that looked indigenous himself! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibes_Indigenous_Ceremonial_Center

@@philpetrucci5569 My 2nd uncle wife is from that area , Tibes , Ponce . Her nickname is " India " due to her appearance .

Is basically depend on whats school you go cuz in my old school never teach us that tainos went extinct. Plus we even dress like tainos african or spaniars, to teach us our past, even knew tainos instruments same with the others cultures. We are have a mix of culture.

Naw I think they should have subtitles in Taino honestly. 😉

I'm not trying to knock you but you know those DNA tests are a bunch of BS right.? They're not accurate people can't text you and find your genetics now if you're talking about they can swap your parents DNA and swap yours they could test those genetics to see if you're related which is testing you to figure out what you have inside you that's impossible they're not that there yet they do that to every person depending on your region

Like where you're from like if I was going to take a test and I'm from America do give me some stupid genetics and not knowing my grandma's Puerto Rican and I consider myself Puerto Rican because of her but I tell people not to mislead people that I'm more American I'm mixed and I know that I'm or I got a little Puerto Rican in me just how I act and how I get along with other Puerto Ricans and Justice Panic people and I act just like they do I'm really sweet and nice but I'm crazy as well. It's just something with Puerto Ricans I just know that they're my people not because a lot of them have more black in them and we're related in that aspect just because personality and the way I act

"Spaniard" and "Portuguese" is exactly the same. Iberian Peninsula. Heck at one time they were the same country!!!

@@drinksnapple8997 LMAO his math doesn't even check out.....

@Raul Vazquez Si supieras lo cerca que estan los pueblos que tienen origenes y tradiciones comunes de encontrarse y crear con mucho amor el motor para el impulso de colectividades para la atencion comunal con conviccion de union. Los tiempos señalan que la madurez necesaria se esta alcanzando con el despertar de las inquietudes acerca de como rehacer nuestro futuro en un mundo cambiante.

@Robert VC which DNA did you use? what company? thanks!

@@aracelisgonzalez-reyes - I used AncestryDNA since we already had an Ancestry account and Ancestry will connect you with more familiar matches. But 23andMe has similar information/breakdown. There are several YT videos comparing results between the two companies.

@@RobertoVCVideos I got 16% indigenous through ancestry too. Though I don't know where part of my family is from exactly. I know some are from Sabana Grande and the adjacent areas.

@@sarcasticdevil7679 - That is really high! I think there is not enough information/study to make specific determinations on which area or specific Taino/Carib/Arawak groups in PR our DNA represents. I know most of my family from my Father's side are "jibaros" and have lived between Bayamon, Cayey and Caimito since the early 1850's, and knowing now that Tainos escaped to the mountains, it makes perfect sense that there was a lot of mixing with Criollos. All this is extremely exciting!

I don't know why this is supposed to be strange since it's common knowledge that there was intermingling going on.

Como huracan es Taino y tambien los nombres de muchos pueblos son nombres Tainos como Guaynabo, Humacao,Mayaguez,Caguas,Guayama y a ver cuantos mas hay

@@boringopr4369 Arasibo (Arecibo), Yuisa (Loiza), Canobana (Canovanas), Jayuya (Hayuya), Otoao (Utuado), Loquillo/Yoquibo (Luquillo), Comerio, Naguabo, Orocobix (Orocovis) entre otros, sin contar el sinnumero de barrios en toda la isla.

@@Schrodingers_Raikou exacticamente👍

@darkeagle asi mesmo👍

@MIKE TEE. Yes sir we all know that or at least most of know that DNA doesn't lie and we humans evolved over time in to what we are today so since we are talking about the evolved indigenous people of this area there's no need for you with all do respect to remind us about our ancient ancestors have beautiful day Mike Tee👍