No, they don't. Their just as racist as the white ppl in the states. They ignore all dark skinned or afro Ricans. Some even tell their kids not to play in the sun to long. Stop acting like every culture don't have form of colorism & racist undertones.
Or any Rican. I live in Illinois and got cousins that could pass for straight up native. My dad's cousins was Nin Negron's son Jose Negron, Jose could pass for native.
Yup, just how when the Spaniards wrote that a hundred Spaniards took down the Inca Empire when in Peru’s history shows that the Incas they battled were 1/2 or 1/4 of what the empire actually was.
I love how much she blushes when he mentions how fascinating her research is. As a scientist, it is very rare that people take any interest or become actively engaged in learning about such things, especially as it relates to indigenous pre-colonial studies. Good for her!
Spain and African blood was first FORCED upon our mothers sisters and daughters. Take pride in original DNA. Not what they forced into our blood stream.
No llores mi Amigos sé gue esto es muy Faso cómo ella es Falsa. Ella no es de P.R no sabe nada de P.R es una Méxicana es mas africana de sus incas mayas yo si se de mi Rasa de Boringuen y estoy muuuy molesta de nuestra Rasa y Reputación se gue nuestra Rasa UNIDOS de sangre es India Taina, Españoles, Francia y American es nuestra verdadera Historia de nuestra Rasa sangre de Boringuen . Y AFRICA no tiene nada que ver con nosotros vino después de P.R gue Abraham Lincoln sacó de los esclavos Africanos de su libertad y se expandió en otros países Internacional. Gue puede claro leer Vien nuestra Rasa de Boringuen su Historia Real Madrid de España y de Puerto Rico.
@The Future Is set Oh yea that is why there are soooo many white dominicanos. Last time I was there I thought I was in Germany the the people are so blond with green eyes. lol!!
I'm Dominican and my mother's side has Taino ancestors 🤷🏿♂️ lol Casique Hatuey, Casique Enriquillo and others are true heroes...people need to do their homework..que viva PR somos hermanos
@@DualPurpose 💯 ....as a child I always wondered why some of the areas and provinces had names that didn't sound remotely Spanish in the DR , even the name Quisqueya..people try to bury history but strong roots always show
I’m Taíno and new it before I even got my DNA because my Grandmother told us that her family was always native to the island, while my grandfather was from Spain. I’m proud to know that the ancient Taíno people live through me! 🇵🇷
@@duckmercy11 sad you feel that way. The reason it is of so much importance regardless of the percentage is bc we were told they were exterminated and no longer existed at all. I find it weird when people call themselves taino when they are not mostly taino but we are proud to carry taino blood. We also rep the African and European heritage so I am not sure why it is so hard for you to understand the extra pride of knowing people you thought extinct still live through you ...
@@duckmercy11 I have 3% taino personally 82% black and i’m sure you can do the math but knowing that even a small piece of them is left in me brings me such joy as some who grew up with such a draw to my puerto rican side it almost felt like a validation of my connection to the island and the Caribbean as a whole considering that’s where the rest of my family is from. At the end of the day a lot of our history was destroyed and that goes for my black ancestry, so to know that i myself am living proof that they were here and to find it as something exciting or amazing isn’t corny especially considering how much of our history they try to deny. every here knows who’s really corny gang 🤦🏾♂️💯
Most of them hid in the mountains when the Spaniards were slaughtering them......The towns with lots of high mountains have the most concentration of Taino ancestry....We are still here.
Some remote towns, yes, but most towns in the mountain range were populated by other europeans, because a late law invented by the Spanish goverment called Real Cedula de Gracia in 1815. Still the majority of us from that region are mixed. I do plan to do a more complete DNA analysis to find out possible Taino ancestry which I believe I have from one of my grand mother side.
@IMxYOURxDADDY He must not have been to the island. I live in Barcelona now, but I remember a few years back talking to a group of white New Yorkers in Río Piedras´s El Boricua, at the College town near University of Puerto Rico. I was amazed at how strongly they stressed the fact that islanders seemed to be ¨a different breed¨, both physically and culturally. I am not white nor consider my self white, although I do pass in the canary islands easily, where most of my ancestry comes from, but I do agree that the stereotype of a Puerto Rican among latinos and other people foreign to our culture on the island doesnt really relate to the diverse racial reality of Puerto Rico.
@@Dbbrainer My ancestors are also from the Canary islands according to my dna test. I've been to Tenerife and La Gomera. It's a shame what the tourists have done to certain parts of Tenerife. Most people don t know about the natives of the Canaries, called the Gauchos. They were likely Amazig (Berber) who were white non-European people.
The Taíno were a branch of the Arawak indigenous group that originally came from what is now the Orinoco and Amazon basins in South America. As a Puerto Rican I already knew that. However, I was unaware that much more Taíno genetics survived than previously thought.
Taino means relative in the Lokono language, Taino is who the Aruac(not Arawak) told Columbus and them who they were so they were protecting their true identity. Most of the indigenous names in the Americas were erased or consolidated into groups that were easier to pronounce. Stop whitewashing US
Before that, they were from the Black Berbers of North Africa. Very beautiful people, they got mixed with the Spanish Colonizers and branched off to become the Arawak.
I’m Puerto Rican and I’m 18% Taino according to my dna results, my sisters are 19%, my parents are 20% and grandparents also 20%. The idea that our Native American blood just disappeared is FALSE. Puerto Rican’s still have Native American blood. You can’t erase our blood.
UniquelyMade Puerto Rican dna is so interesting and diverse! I love it. I’m a mix..(my moms Puerto Rican) and my results came back as Taino, Irish, African, Liberian, Ashkenazi Jewish, scandanavian, and Iranian. I love that so many on the island are all different mixes, like African/taino/Liberian, or taino/Liberian/Caucasian...it’s so cool how unique Puerto Rican’s are , But almost all have that one thing in common, Taino. I think it’s a beautiful thing🙂
@@littlemomma6363 ......." Rapest " ??? It's rapist !!! 20% is a fail ?? More rapist dna than your so called original taino dna ?? Little Momma ......almost every country had gone through some form of take over for over hundreds if not thousands of years . So whether you like it or not .......your gonna have some kind of mix in you whether small or not . Taino where a group of people that occupied the carribean who's roots are mainly native american which runs from modern day US all the way down to South America. Please take time to educate yourself before saying some real insensitive stuff. Not a nice thing you said.
They confirmed what we already knew on the island. Boricua have known this for decades. Every family I know has stories about Taino ancestors. They never fully disappeared they married Spaniards, and Africans. All Puerto Ricans have heard these stories and I'm glad they can confirm what we already knew.
Bro, this is silly. Of course they are going to have Taino DNA. The Spanish mixed with them making them Mestizo (Half Native, Half Spanish). Then the Africans came and they became Afro-Mestizo.
The Africans were already there. They weren't Africans anymore, as they had been there for thousands of years already. Just has they were everywhere else. The Europeans/Spanish like to say they eradicated all indigenous tribes and brought in Africans after, so decedents don't try to lay claim to land which is already theirs. They tell the story in reverse on purpose.
Pedro Garcia - Or Irish that pass for Puerto Ricans - no kidding aside, some of the prettiest blue or green eyes I have ever seen are from Puerto Rico.
My friend was raised in America and didn’t know. Would have never believed it w/out evidence. He’s excited to have possibly passed this heritage onto his daughter
@@lordhelmit1499 He believed Puerto Rican ancestry was always either European or African, with no indigenous ancestry possible. He believed his ancestry was entirely spanish based on his last name... but he looks indian/native so it never made sense
Tree. That is very common knowledge. Maybe that's the misunderstanding of the non-Latino who is interviewing the Puerto Rican lady? On the other had she seems to go right along with him as if she also had that idea? Strange!
As a puertorican who lives in puerto rico, they always taught us at school that we have taino blood, african blood, and European blood. This is nothing new to us.
@@iloveblue76 same but from philly, we were always taught we have all 3. I did a 23 and me test to see how true..and suprise suprise I am spanish, Taino and african...and my MtDNA is indeed native american.
Is this a joke? That's like saying Native Americans don't have Cherokee, Apache, Shawnee,etc in their blood (570+ tribes by the way). Some mixed with whites & some with other races along throughout history but their roots remain & have the DNA. Same thing goes for PR's people. We have Taino & any other native tribes blood/DNA in our veins until this day. For those of you that didn't know this- some of the names of the towns in PR are named by tribes or for the tribes that once lived there. Not all the people of PR belonged to just the Taino tribe, but all lived in peace under the rule of Taino tribe leader Cacique Agüeybaná up until the Spaniards invaded & enslaved them. Also, some Tainos, natives, etc...left the island during Spanish invasion to avoid being enslaved themselves, so to think Taino blood is nonexistent is just ignorant. It is the same blood shared by Dominicans, Haitians, Cubans, & surrounding islands.
I have friends in PR and they tell me a lot about their history. I'm pretty interested in it, so thanks for the little history lesson! Shame that most people seem ignorant, considering this is news in the first place..
LUIS VELEZ That is correct Haitians are the most African blood of all the islands besides Jamaica. But that doesn’t take away the fact that they also have Taino blood same as Dominicans & Puerto Rican’s. Look it up for yourself.
Mark TheZealot GBY Mark, I love every part of who I am mixed race Boricua lol. I’ve asked questions to my parents, grandparents, aunts, & elders. It actually made me a better person growing up because I treated everyone the same regardless of color or race. Humanity in general is a mixture no matter what part of the world. If people understood this more the world today would be a better place.
LUIS VELEZ And Luis if you’re Hatian or Dominican I’m sorry that you feel that way. I’ve always looked at Hatians,Dominicans, Cubans, etc as family because of the blood & history we shared in the Carribeans. And maybe you misunderstood what I was saying in my original statement. I wasn’t putting anyone down but reminding Hispanics & Latinos on here that we share a lot of the same blood due to the horrible things that transpired not only on my island but on the others as well.
:) I have traces of Taino all the way back to my ancestors. While we are at it can we change the name "Puerto Rico" back to "Borikén" :( Shout out to all my Boricua hermanos y hermanas. Nuestra isla esta pasando por mucho pero ustedes saben que nuestra isla siempre se levanta!!
-Technically, the Puerto Rican Mix is Tainos, European (Not just Spanish) and African. - In 1815 there was a decree where Spain offered “free land” to non-Spanish speaking Europeans to whiten the island. As a result, French, Germans, Irish, Italians, Portuguese, Russians, Polish, British, etc all came in droves for that “Free Land” in exchange to be a subject/Citizen of Spain. This was Puerto Rico’s Ellis Island 🌴 - In 1514 Queen Isabella of Spain sanction marriage being legal between European men & Taino Women. - Before taking my DNA test, I traced via documents both my Portuguese x times Great Grandfather in 1518 and my Spanish x times Great Grandfather in 1521 entering Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 and both marrying “Mestiza women” (Taino & European mixture) - which according to the Caste System kept them European
@@evelynvega1730 - Yes, absolutely the Jewish people too. Also, in our DNA. However, this started off with the crypto Jews, the first people that the Spanish vanished off to their colonies in the New World, because they refused to convert to the Catholic religion, the 1815 Royal Decree of Graces, the Holocaust, including WWI & WWII.
This must be news to the greens. Us Puerto ricans know this just like the history books in Florida where I live changing info and dates about Puerto Rico🤔 Why don't you talk about that?
This should not be a surprise to anybody, Puerto Ricans very often resemble their ancestors of Spaniards, African Slaves, and Carribean Indians. In this, they are not that much different from other Latin Americans in the region. Latin America never had the hard racial divides of British North America.
John Smith 🇵🇷 has the richest Native ancestry in all of the Caribbean. There is also emerging DNA evidence that out of all three of the races, that we are more closely related to the Taino. Many customs and traditions once thought to be Spanish, or African are found to actually be Taino in origin. Modern day geneticist also day PR DNA is the closest to a perfect human...just sayin...😉🇵🇷💪🏼
We are also connected to the native indigenous from the North of Venezuela 🇻🇪, I lived there and heard the story or the fact that we are cousin to them.
We also have got DNA ancestry from other indigenous tribes from around the world like Canary Islanders native population, The Guanches from North Africa. Our cultural ties with the Canary Islands are undeniably strong even to this day. 🇵🇷🇮🇨
Puerto Rican’s have indigenous blood because I knew many Puerto Rican’s when I grew up that we use to called them Indio that means Indian they were definitely had indigenous blood.
I’m Puerto Rican, I had my husband and I take a DNA test from Ancestry and my results came back that I am 23% Taino and my husband is 19% Taino. We always knew our Taino ancestors were never completely extinct. A lot of Tainos hid in the mountains when the Europeans invaded Puerto Rico.
Yes, they did. One of the places was Morovis. My mother is from Morovis and I remember her family, growing up, some had very distinct indigenous features. Of course, being a child, I did not recognize that until now. I wish I had more pictures of them. Nevertheless, I am so proud to have that heritage.
It has been known that the Taino DNA did not disappear. I went to HS in 1980 on the island of Puerto Rico and it was taught then that the modern day Puerto Rican (at that time) was made up of those 3 basic genetic sources: European, African, & Taino. To be clear, not every person there has all 3, some have only 2 of those sources, but of course, we have had many that have other genetic sources from many different groups from elsewhere in the world. The culture of the Taino had been pretty much wiped out, but many of the locals have within their family genes Taino heritage. Glad to see that they actually now show modern confirmation of that information.
evelasq1 I once heard about that and I didn’t know that there was still Tanio culture left. I remember being told about my Native American background and I didn’t know that that could be so that someone could be Native American still to this day. Heck I hardly thought that they were real and I laughed at him. I look now and I see Native American features in both my father and I ( and his side of the family) and I once didn’t think they were real.
How can we test my husband our our children's DNA to see if the taino gene is in their bloodline? Also if we can prove they have this in their bloodline do they in fact count as native Americans and the native American child welfare act? I think that is what it's called?
@@kristinlanders1481 You can do an AncestryDNA test. I just got my results and I my test says that I have 16% taino blood, mostly Spanish and Portugal and also a lot of African in the mix.
Human migration out of Africa and throughout the world is just fascinating to me. It demonstrates that the concept of "race" is nonsense. We are simply one single species.
Your argument is not based on science. There are clear genetic differences in human populations. Spaniards, Africans, and Carribean Indians all have distinct genetic signatures. This is how we determined that many Puerto Ricans had indigenous roots in the first place.
@@bargaingoldandsilver Despite your ideology there are genetic differences in human populations to the degree that certain medications must be adjusted depending on certain ethnic origins. Every medical doctor know this fact, even if you do not.
I'm NOT Puerto Rican and I knew this already. Some of my Puerto Rican friends in the military told me that. They also said that Tainos were all color shades too from black to yellow
There are white Puerto Ricans and millions of white Latinos. Anglo Americans are not the only white people in the Americas my friend. Neither are Afro Americans the only black people in the Americas.
@@elinmortal.6264 Ubicate! Puertorriqueños=Tainos=Españoles=Africanos! Ignorancia decir que los Puertorriqueños mataron los Tainos. PUERTORRIQUEÑOS SOMOS TAINOS.
Tainos are the same people from the continent .. they derived from central and South America .. especially Venezuela so if you have Tainos blood , you are stating you have Native A. Blood from North to South. Empanadas y pasteles is Native A. Culture which was also passed down in the carribean a and is eaten today.
Just not Spanish. Other euro countries. Most are 70 percent Euro with just 25 being Spain. My mother is 83 euro but just 25 Spain. I'm 60 euro with just 25 Spain.
More than 60% of puertorricans have taino mitochondrial dna, and a lot of them has more than 20% of taino dna. People are taking the dna tests and it is been evidenced a higher percentage of taino dna that expected. You can see in people looks in the island the inevitable evidence of that taino dna in-heritage but not everyone can take the test to prove it. I also has been proving connections with other tribes around the Continent.
I believe I still carry those genes in my blood up to this day. Tainos were never extinct, history has failed us. Us Puerto Ricans are a mix of tainos, Spanish and African. All this happened when slavery was a thing back hundreds of years ago. So in my conclusion tainos are still here, whether is thru ancestry or just plain old DNA.
@@FLeXn_YT Your idea goes contrary to reality in reference to Latin Americans. Excerpt Latin America has the largest diasporas of Spaniards, Portuguese, Black Africans, Italians, Lebanese and Japanese in the world. The region also has large German (second largest after the United States), French, and Jewish diasporas. The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country: many have a predominance of European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; and others are primarily Mulatto. Various Black, Asian, and Zambo (mixed Black and Amerindian) minorities are also identified in most countries. White Latin Americans are the largest single group. Together with the people of part-European ancestry they combine for almost the totality of the population. varietygalore.boards.net/thread/2038/latin-american-diversity-overview
@@aranielleb7718 Do research. stop talking out of your behind. www.medicaldaily.com/biologist-says-puerto-rican-women-possess-ideal-genotype-perfect-human-dna-ancestry-313956 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_Qgju9_Opg.html If there is a genetic trace, then that means it has survived.
The reason this is news is because 30 years ago small groups of Taino descendants began organizing on the island and New York, the result was a massive ridicule and even hostile response by some academia and fellow citizens who would even refuse us meeting spaces saying we were nothing but Cos players ashamed of our Blackness. Time and science has proved that the Taino component is wide spread all over the island and on average differs in autosomal testing from the African component by 5 to 6 points.
Exactly. We weren’t hiding and pretending to be something else. It was all their envy, insecurity and afraid of the truth coming out. Thank god for science. Even though at times a bit flawed but it still showed evidence we are still here.
I noticed the same thing right away! My first thought was how can they do that when they have access to so many photos and even access to stock photos (if they where that pressed!). That was very poor decision making!
@@wolfheart2443 Lo siento! Mi telefono no tiene la bandera Puerrtoriqeno emojis. I don't know much Spanish either 😥 My father was from Puerto Rico. My mother is American. I edited my comment 😘
@Jorge Lebron if by native american you mean just the usa then you are right. But borders are man made bs. For example the Apache tribes both live in mexico and the usa they travel back and forth along the border. So I guess only Apache people living in the usa are native?Please help yourself and do a little more research.
@@tejanothetexan4115 ............Brother your prideful words are only that prideful.You can have all the native blood you have but at the end of the day we all suffered losses based on our past. Aztecs were a mighty nation but fell mightily to the spaniards in the conquest. Some 350000 aztecas deep vs 850 spaniards. As a whole Native blood runs through us all whether small or large amounts.
Do you have a problem with that word in spanish. Its the same in all all languages like in Mexico, los Incas. Maybe you are the one that dont recognize that in USA, true American People are the Indians. The rest are white immigrants.
Read and scrub! Ozonate yourself ! Female Taino is Taína. Oh by the way, Im proud to be recognized as a Taína. It’s ignorant people that doesnt know history.
@@mariarosarodz7426 Of course I understand; I'm 43% Native American. By saying the word "Taina", you are acting like a white immigrant. There is no such thing, there is only Taino. An Indigenous word from the Indigenous people. You disrespect it and continue to colonize it. Spanish is a white language.
Puerto Ricans seem to be some of the proudest Latinos of their indigenous roots. Go ask a Dominican, Cuban, or Mexican about their indigenous roots, you’ll hear “no soy Indio! Yo soy español” or “im not Indian! I’m Spanish”. Colonialism was majorly successful at getting Latinos to cling to their whiteness over anything else. Shoutout to the Puerto Rican’s though! Claim those roots!
This is a incredible find. I’m sad at the same time what the Spaniards did to the ingenious people. I’m Filipino and sad what Spain did to our own ingenious people as well. It really changed our history.
My parent educated me and we knew we were not extinct. We have to watch what we read and who's writing it. Thank you for your research que viva Puerto Rico.
Anyone from any of the Caribbean islands knows we didn't die out. They found Taino remains and artifacts in southern Florida and GA...they just don't want us here. Tainos we're literally shipped first as slaves.
Me too I have native of Puerto Rico blood and also native of South America-, Central and North America as well as Spaniard and Portuguese. I did a DNA test.
