The Guanche live on in me. A Canarian geneticist confirmed to me a couple of years ago that my maternal lineage is Guanche. Most of the Guanche men were killed in battle or enslaved. But up to half of the mitochondrial lineages of the Canaries are still Guanche. Their memory shall forever live on.
@@joaquinflores3547 Whatever the Spanish applied in the New World, they learned in the Canaries. It was the Canarians that almost put an end to the Spanish conquista before it even happened. It's just that the Spanish had Venetian (money) and Norman (military muscle) backing.
Great video .I'm from tenerife and my whole family is from the canary island .the guanches did not disappear completely your dna figures are wrong .check the latest studies about the mitochondrial dna in the present Canadian population. You can even find elements of the guanche culture still alive .we eat a food almost daily called gofio from the guanches some of the music of the guanche is played by my people still like the tajaraste rhythm from the island la gomera is of guanche origin as well as other music and dances The lucha canaria which is a kind of wrestling is of guanche origin and the silbo a way way of communicating by whistle way of communicating from the island of la gomera .in the mountains my people travel using large stick is called el salton del pastor or the shepherd leap and so many other traditions and culture from our ancestor the guanches even bits of the language. My grand mother would sing a son called arroro to put me to bed is a guanche word that means my child other words like mago , goro .perenquen, Baifo, belete, and many others we are a mixed people but the guanche blood still runs through our veins .and the guanche Culture forms the basis of our culture any way good to see a video about the conquest .take care
Years of genealogical research lead me to find that I have a pretty straight forward paternal line to the first 10 Canarian families in Puerto Rico and to Atbitocazpe, the Mencey of Adeje. Being able to watch a documentary about your own ancestors is surreal. Thank you for this production!
Through DNA testing, I learned one of my ancestors was Guardafia of the Guanches, They live on in me and others. Learning their body types were tall and slender made me so happy being 6'4" and a slender build. Both my father and mother have north african dna in them, though my father is higher being from the canary islands. It's beautiful reading these comments and seeing others from all over sharing the same sentiment. May we make our ancestors proud.
This was a neolithic army pretty much and they gave the spanish a bloody nose that not even the far more advanced great empires of the new world matched.
I never knew anything about the Canary Islands other than, they had some really pretty postage stamps in the 70s. This informational documentary has been fabulous!
I’m Puerto Rican and many families were incentivized to come to pr from Tenerife. I have records from way back, so for sure the indigenous people were absorbed into the Canadian population and also the Caribbean. A large amount also went to Spanish Louisiana. They needed cheap labor and the guanche people were staunch sugar cane farmers.
Most of the Spaniards who settled in the Caribbean islands( Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela) were of Canarian descent. This is shown with the similarities between the Canarian and Caribeno accents.
I’m half Cuban and around 12 percent Guanche. My father is around a quarter. Most of my lineage is from Central Cuba via the Canary Islands. This is still a significant amount, to be honest. I think it's cool I never knew much about North Africa or anything about it until I started to learn more about the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
I like how people from other countries talk about our history, although sometimes are wrong, it is incorrect to call all aborigines Guanches in general, in each island they receive a different name. Guanche is the name of the aborigines of Tenerife, each island had its own culture, language and traditions. Thanks for sharing this, May Guanche honor never be lost
@osantana6 Por favor revisa esa barbaridad que me acabas de contar. No hay ninguna isla llamada canaria, solo conozco a una llamada Gran Canaria. Todos los canarios son llamados canarios porque el archipiélago es llamado "Islas Canarias". De hecho, el nombre "Canarias" tiene más historia que el nombre de la isla, que antiguamente recibía el nombre de "Tamarán". Si te quieres referir específicamente a los habitantes de esta isla en concreto, "grancanario o canarión" son los términos adecuados. Canarión es de un uso más popular entre todos los canarios, al igual que chicharrero, majorero, etc.
00:04 The resistance of the Guanch people to the Spanish Conquest 02:16 Introduction of European weapons and diseases to the Guanches. 04:25 Spanish conquest and colonization of Canary Islands 06:42 Conquest of Tenerife begins with peaceful negotiations turning into inevitable war 08:59 Conquistadors ambushed by Guanches in the Ravine 11:13 Defeat of Alonso Fernandez de Lugo in Tenerife 13:29 Delugo prepares for conquest of Tenerife with trained soldiers 15:46 Battle of the Three Mountains on Tenerife 17:56 Guanches leaders faced defeat and loss of warriors 19:56 Guanches on Tenerife surrender and convert to Christianity after defeat. 22:06 The mistreatment and integration led to the extinction of the Guanches.
I found this so interesting, been on holiday to Tenerife a few times, went to Candelaria and wondered who the statues were, over the years i heard of the Guanche but didn't know anything else, that they were brothers that had their own regions of Tenerife, why do people have to wipe out others for land...........and it is the same now a days too, just the weapons are more advanced Good to read in the comments that Guanche live on
I lived on Tenerife for nine years and got very involved in researching the pyramids there. I ended up in Raphael Biss's Savages in Foreign Lands film about the Guanches.
37% Guanche, 11% Taíno, 8% Scottish/Irish, and 44% Iberian. We got mixed with other ethnicities, but still, I was born in Tenerife. I got it in my DNA, it's my heritage, my history, my culture, my traditions. Since as far back as I can remember, I've always been hearing and learning about my Guanche Ancestors more than any of my other ethnic backgrounds. By birth, and actual meaning of the term itself, I'm a Guanche. We are not extinct, we just live differently, and still remember who we are.
@@Revitalization4241 the word Guanche itself means "native of Achinech (Tenerife)". That's what I am. I know you love to destroy cultures and all that, you want me to diss that part of my heritage and say that I'm just European/white, but I'm not going to ignore that a big chunk of my DNA to satisfy your personal genocidal tendencies. I'm Guanche, and you can go and fuck your racist self, how about that?
@@Revitalization4241 also, Guanche traditions (isolated from the mainland Amazigh traditions for centuries) were more of a matriarchy. You obviously don't know shit about my culture.
Are you retarded? He's clearly a Berber, Iberian....( all of the roots that were shown in dna tesr) that's the truth like it or not + real Berber culture is matriarchal which means is by your mom's lineage btw and I'm a Berber myself who do know it culture very well so shut up Spaniard @@Revitalization4241
My 23 and me connected us to the Canary Islands and North/West Africa. Fascinating how my Iberian ancestors didn’t stop at conquering there but continued to colonize my ancestors in the Caribbean as well.
Well there was for between 1640 and 1750 a "blood tax" which meant that many canarian families were forced to emigrate to the new world. Most, in fact, against their will. There is a reason for the strong isleño culture generated by the "magua" of missing their home (magua being a guanche word in use even today for something similar to nostalgia).
@@davidwilner4553 Impuesto a sangre, basically for each 100 tons of products exported to America from the Canary Islands, five families had to emmigrate to help in the Spanish settling of America. This was in the late Spanish Empire though, started around 1700 right at the rise of the Bourbons. There was a possibility to refuse going to America, but then there had to be a compensation in metallic currency.
It was not a genocide, please don't tell lies! Look up the definition of genocide. Most canarians have guanche DNA. In the island of La Gomera for example is 55%, a lot. I know because I am Canarian.
Because no Guanches were left alive to tell the tale or to hold them accountable. Since they also were Berber then who in Europe would care, the French were doing the same to the Algerian Berbers as recent as the 20th century. Things that never get “forgotten” are things that happened to the western people
@@abal-m4525 Not completely true, the Barbary slave trade took plenty of Northern Europeans against their will, and I assume that's what you mean by 'Western People'. In fact, today, the only people that aren't referred to as indigenous are, ironically, Westerners in their own lands. History ultimately is a bloody mess and that's why it's interesting.
A genocide is the sistematic killing of a population, like what Hitler did with the Jews. No such thing ever happened on Tenerife. The Spanish Empire assimilated the peoples it conquered. If you go to any place conquered by the Spanish you will see a clear mixture (Canary Islands, México, Perú...), however in places conquered by the English (USA, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand...) almost everybody is of European descent.
@@thesharkormoriantm274 enslavement and deportations seem pretty systematic to me, I hear what you are saying though, a bit of a stretch to say Genocide but with the end result I’d still venture to call it one
Having blue eyes and blond hair also exist in some amazigh tribes in North Africa and morocco also amazigh people before Christianity and Judaism they were a Eurasian people
Great documentary, but you are absolutely just slaughtering these pronounciations, bruh! You're not even trying sometimes haha "Adonja" ? Even though we se the name, spelled in front of us, ADJONA haha. Lord...
@@ismaeldariasjerez8387 No your not The males got wiped out and the women started to have childern with the Spanish males. Most of your ancestory is Iberian, besides that according to Berber tradition heritage goes from the fatherline. So your not Guanche Berber
@@ismaeldariasjerez8387 Because that happened only in the plains. In the mountain regions of North Africa the Arabs coudn't take it over. Thats why pockets of Berbers are still present in the mountain regions who are pure Berbers
@@ismaeldariasjerez8387 Your right when many Moroccans are Arabs they don't know nothing about Amazigh culture yet they call themselves as Amazigh. Real Amazigh are located only in the Ghomora, Atlas and Anti-Atlas
@@ismaeldariasjerez8387 Dont listen to the Moroccan monarchists, Morocco is a Arab state and majoirity of Morocco are Arabs they have no right to claim or annex canary islands, they have no history to it, they are even not tied to ancient Mauretania(a ancient Berber kingdom)
The last Mediterranean culture and religion untouched by Christianity. So close to us in time. it's a shame that anthropology was not a thing back then... :(
@@Timeisntgood A genocide is the sistematic killing of a population, like what the Nazis did during the Holocaust. In fact, that's why the term "genocide" was coined. No such thing happenned on Tenerife or the Canary Islands. What happenned was that the Guanches were either sold into slavery or forced to adopt Christianity, abandon their language and customs and work as shepherds for the colony.
@@Timeisntgood A genocide is the sistematic killing of a population. The Guanches were either enslaved or forced to reject their language and customs, adopt Christianity and work as shepherds for the colony. They were not sistematically murdered which is the definition of genocide.
@@Timeisntgood I have answered your comment twice but my answer does not appear to me in my screen. The Guanches were enslaved or Christianised and absorbed, not sistematically killed which is the definition of a genocide.
I’ve just found out through dna testing a few months ago I’m 68% guanche 23% Congolese,Nigerian,Guinean 13% indigenous Taino ✊🏾✊🏾 we’re still here living and thriving a lot of the haunches were brought to Puerto Rico and sold into slavery
@indiojazz guanche were North African Berber learn your history before you talk out your ass. North African Berber left Northern Africa to the canaries before abran invasion of Africa and the fact that y’all keep saying I’m Puerto Rican as a race and not nationality just shows how stupid y’all really are ignorant ass mfrs
@@lebronjean2007Your not Guanche, because every dna company doesnt have a result that is called "Guanche" The results are called North African but however those North African results can go back no futher than 500 years, thus Arab Banu Hilal samples are also counted as North African
@@Revitalization4241 are you stupid as well maybe go take a class in genetics moron guanche are the aboriginal people who inhabit the Canary Islands I huge portion of “puerto Ricans” have canary island blood which canario people are known as guanche or in other words North African Berber fucking moron
@Addchanelname-sg4xylol what nonsense morocco has no civilziation expet fucking sheeps, Spain adxhitecture, monuments and cuisine is european, quite ltierally our cuisine is extremely heavy on pork meat which is banned in morocco and neither paella, tortilla or pestiños come from morocco. And berber moorish cuoture is all stolen from arabs who civilized barbarious moors, spaniards have been lon civilzied when berbwrs where living in caves
This is real history: "In the 15th century the Spanish conquered Tenerife along with the other Canary Islands. The Guanches put up a great fight, but one by one the islands fell to the conquistadors. After colonisation the Guanches gradually disappeared. Many died of diseases that were introduced by the arrivals from mainland Europe".. The Spaniards did not kill them but the diseases they brought with them did reduced the population...
The Guanches did not die out, they were assimilated and intermixed with the Spanish population giving birth to the current Canary Islanders. There was no genocide in the Canary Islands, however there were some massacres and atrocities mostly committed during the period of the "Conquista señorial". As far as the XVIII century Guanche dialects were still spoken by some.
@@amparoalvarez9001 The thing is, even Queen Isabella decreed the liberation of the Guanche slaves who had still survived in 1498 I think, the thing is by then it was too late and few returned home as many had died to starvation and disease. Also, in other islands, like La Gomera, the prehispanic population survived more and the resettlement with Spanish and Portuguese wasn't as intense. In Tenerife, mostly only women remained.
@@nestor1907 Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands in the 15th century resulted in the deaths of many of the indigenous Guanche people. The conquest was characterized by violence, forced labor and the introduction of diseases to which the Guanche had no immunity. The population of the islands was drastically reduced, and the Guanche culture and way of life were largely destroyed. The word assimilated refers to something else. Google it.
@massinissaziriamazigh8122 That's amazing! I've been researching after my DNA results as well. My MtDNA starts at Mitacondrial Eve with North African Berber, Egyptian, Levant. Specifically Guanches on one test and Berber on another. I just watched a Robert Sepher video on RH- Blood type. Apparently its linked as well. 👀🤔
