Supporting Taino from 🇭🇹! We with you

I hope all the Native Americans of Peurto Rico,and other First Nation people of the world gets what they all want . I want those thing also for you all .🎉🇵🇷

Numerous federally recognized tribes in the US have members with less % than most Puerto Rican yet are full citizens in their tribal nation. The desicion of who is Indian is really about power and who gets to wield it. In some places just one drop makes you Black no matter how you present, yet to be indigenous more than half is demanded. While the average Taino is 15% there are many who range in the 20 to 30%.and even higher has been found in a minority of cases. The point is that there is a double standard at play and that shows the racist element. The 62% of indigenous marker is totally through the maternal side and women carry and pass down the culture and life ways. Having African ancestry certainly does not lessen indigenous identities, this argument was used to erase the indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi especially in Virginia, and the Carolinas. The Lumbee tribe is a prime example of this type of abuse similar to what Taino are dealing with today.

Grown up I hearing stories, but as someone who grew up in Puerto Rico, we where told that it was impossible. We are very spiritual people and when I saw my indigenous blood come out in the DNA test I got so emotional. I don't think it's necessary to have a DNA test to claim you Taino identity, but it was truly beautiful for me to see.

My great grandmothers mother was pure Taino . Only the female lineage survived but Taino ancestry is absolutely existent and alive . When I drew a DNA sample turned out my quantum was 1/5 Taino (exactly 20%) and couldn’t be more proud to be ! 🇵🇷

My great grandmother was Taína. I was raised by her and she shared many stories and the language with me. I tested my dna and I am 33% indigenous Puerto Rican (45% Colombian indigenous) & 41% identical alleles to Atunwa Inaru. We are still here 🦜

The Tainos were not wiped out. There's a reason why many of us Puerto Ricans are tri-racial. Spanish/ African/ and Taino blood flows through our veins. I did an ancestry test via 23andMe and I have 15.2% Indigenous (Taino) ancestry. I am very proud to represent not only my Taino heritage but also my Spanish and my African heritage because at the end of the day I wouldn't be here otherwise.

I’m coming back here after discovering nearly 20% of my DNA is traced back to the Taino People. My desire to learn comes from my desire to keep my people alive.

The original indigenous communities are not just still here.. they are our teachers.. they will always be here. They are.. the land.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thank you John for a facinating series!

We are still here taino and proud

This was amazing! I got chills. ❤

My grandmother, who lived high in the mountains of Jamaica and passed away in 1989, was a Taino they called her 'Sister Tain'i, and she looked just like the two women in this presentation!❤😮

I fight this ignorance constantly. Mi abuelita taught me who I was and where we are from. Even the DNA test even says over 20% Taino but people will still look at me and tell me I don't exist ...it makes me weep

I read the whole story of the Puerto Rican somewhere. The Puerto Ricans got their respect because we fought and won many times… proud to be a Puerto Rican

Solidarity with the Taino people. You don’t need anyone else to recognise your identity for it to be real but it would be good if the Anglo Americans and the Latinx would be confident and generous enough to see that mutual respect benefits all. Love and best wishes from anglophone Ireland, sadly I can’t speak my native tongue fluently. A legacy of colonialism and the attempt to sublimate our culture and identity into theirs. ✊🏼

This was an amazing episode!

Historians, like scientists, always make bold statements, only to find out years later that those statements would not accurate. To say completely wiped out is simply hyperbole.

Such a beautiful ceremony. I'm boricua and i honestly say i would love to join in that ritual because I want to feel closer to my ancestors and closer to my roots. May God bless and be on the side of of them all in their fight for justice and rights over the taino land.

Most governments will find a way to take your land, if P.R. Becomes a State then the government can take the land when the poor can’t pay property taxes, or when someone dies inheritance tax will make the family sell their land if they can’t pay.

My family is from Puerto Rico, specifically Ponce area and I have indigenous ancestry as well Spanish, Portuguese and west African. Its important to reserved the history, stories, and culture of the Taino people. For many of us Puerto Ricans all we know and told is history and names of those who colonized the island. We don't know about the stories of natives as well the various African enslaved people and their orginal language and culture.What little we do know, is woven into Puerto Rican culture but it diluted. I very much support those Tainos who live today who haven't forgotten and are fighting to keep it alive.

This is why it's important to do your research first before making assumptions

I got tested and found I have 21% Taino and my husband is 26% and we are very proud of it ❤❤❤❤

Daka Taino, let our voices be heard!

This is an unpopular opinion: As Boricuas, we have a large triad of cultures with some nuances interspersed throughout. It is largely Taino, African, and Spanish. We are at a pivotal point in history; we can decide to either continue placing prominence upon our Spanish ancestry and continue the status quo. Haven’t we done that enough? We speak Spanish. In some parts of the island we even want to SEEM Spanish. I say it’s time we begin prioritizing our Taino and African ancestry. Being that our Taino history is disjointed and hard to piece together at times (due to the injustices we’ve suffered), it seems like we have to attempt to keep our history, culture, and traditions alive. However, we also have to bring this into the future. We have to be the ones that decide what being Taino means to us NOW. The closest I can think of is Afro-Taino Futurism. It begs the question: what does it mean to be descendants of Africans and Tainos in 2023? What do we do with this? I think it’s important to love both of these cultures because they both suffered in unimaginable ways, and could use the front seat. Spanish has been in the forefront for far too long. Time to start teaching these languages in schools. And this blood quantum stuff is insane. If anything the fact that all of us have even 1% of indigenous blood is a testament to our ancestors. They are still, and will always be with us.

My great grandfather is Taíno and still alive 104.

I visited this location and it was breathtaking. Totally recommend.

I have 21% Taino (DNA tested )

Why is it so important for other people to label who we are? Really, why?

In unity, love, harmony and respect with our Taino family. It's time to unify us all as the guardians of these lands belonging to mother nature and take ones again ownership of our duty on this Earth. Receive the greetings from my sacred heart, my soul and oness with all, a sister a descendant from the Mayan, Olmec Aztec lineages. Hugs 💕

I met John at a book club in Berkeley he is such a great man bro. And one of my favorite actors.

Wow that brought tears to my eyes.~~~

I am half Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 and according to two different DNA tests, I am only 3 generations from a full blooded taino ancestor. I keep feeling a call within me to learn my heritage, learn my culture. I grew up with some of the PR culture but I feel drawn to the taino side as well. I hope to learn it and teach it to my children!

I learned today that 14.6% of my DNA is traced back to Taino. I’m mixed, so I know my dad’s DNA would have shown higher if he was still alive. I’m proud to be here and learn about this part of me.

My mom is Taino Indian too her grandma lived too 114 years old

I really cherish all the things that these people and other Puerto Rican communities are doing to rescue the taino culture or heritage, and at the same time I wish my dominican brothers and sisters put the same passion as well. *Aplauso para los boris!!* 👏💙🤍❤

Taino males were enslaved by the Spanish settlers after 1508, and their life expectancy as slaves, was about 7 years, according to Ricardo Alegría. Even the Catholic Church, had about 50 slaves to each parish. First Taino upraising occurred in 1510 and most settlers on the Western part of the Island were killed. Ponce de Leon returned with a vengeance and neutralized the male population in Guainia. Many ran to the mountains to avoid the white devils, while others went south, today Venezuela.

We are a people and proud.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

I remember finding out that Assyrians still existed.

Only a DNA test will prove or disprove whether anyone has Taino in them.

Just found out I am 30% Indigenous Puerto Rican. This is pretty fascinating. Thank you for the video!

Thank you so much‼️I have always loved John Leguizamo but wasn’t expecting this wonderful piece. It’s so sad I’m 50 yrs old and still trying to find my truth.

This is amazing we need to do all is possible for our culture. Greetings from cusco. Inca

My parents and grandparents were from Guacio San Sebastian. My maternal grandfather told me a few times that his great, great etc. grandfather was Taíno and that he rebelled against the Spaniards. He had to flee way up into the mountains and they used dogs to pursue and search for him. I'm not sure how that ended but my dear grandpa who we always called ' Pito ' looked a lot like a Taíno. Two of his ten children look a lot like Taínos as well but my mom, his daughter, looks completely European; oh well, you know how we are. 😅

I been there as a kid that’s crazy I’m looking at the photos now 🇵🇷

I found it to be amazing in took the ancestry DNA. I'm actually native indigenous Puerto Rican !!

I’m Taino n still here on Earth n I have kids for the next generation to come 💪🏽🇵🇷🤙🏽

If you haven't read the first-hand accounts of what happened to the Taíno people... I don't know. I think it was a priest who documented what happened. It was extreme.

Arawak Boricuas have always been in our blood as Puerto Ricans.

After doing one of those DNA tests it shows I am 30% Spain 25% Portugal 20% native Puerto Rican (Taino) and the other 25% majority from Africa and some traces from all over Europe. On my my mom's side everyone has blond hair with blue or green eyes and white skin on my dads side they are truly natives!

Me and my father's beautiful town of "Otoau" Utuado. I pass that place many times and the most beautiful thing is to see the mountain "El Cemí" as a background. And while you drive on 111 road towards Angeles and Lares, you actually go right in front of those mountains and it's just beautiful. I might have been born at the states which I'm grateful, but genetically I am puertorican and that Taino blood runs through my veins, especially from my mother's side. My abuela is a glimpse of the past ❤. Her features are 100% Taina, just beautiful ❤.

What percent does the government want? How much is enough?

Modern “taínos” are LARPers. They were wiped out indeed. My ancestors wiped out the taínos 500 years ago. Yes some Caribbean islanders still have some Taino blood because of something that anthropologists call “the founder effect” which happens when everyone in a community descends from the same small group of founders. I’m from a small town in Cuba. Both of my parents have the exact same percentages in their dna tests despite being completely unrelated. They’re both 9% indigenous Cuban (Taino). That is extremely high for the entire island and way above average. I would find it extremely disrespectful to actual indigenous communities to identify as “Taino” when I have no knowledge of their language, culture, customs, etc. Not to mention the rest of my DNA is Spanish (European).

🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹im Taino....my mom hair her eyes was different . Taino lived in all the Caribbean, they made boat so they traveled to different islands that's why we love the ocean..... Haiti -Cuba Puerto Rico - and the rest of the Caribbean are Taino

I have been looking at comments from so many different types of cultures on different identity videos. This is what i know. 1. Those who claim their indigenous identity, connect with the tribes of PR ( and there are tribes) and belong to that nation are infact Indigenous 2. People in the comments no matter if its irish identity , Native Identity , African so on always differ in oppinion. DONT LET THAT DISCOURAGE YOU FROM DOING WHAT YOUR HEART SAYS> IF YOUR INDIGENOUS ANCESTORS CALL YOU GO FIND THE ELDERS AND THE COMMUNITY!

Have these people had DNA tests. What is their percentage of Taino.

As a child of Puerto Rican parents... We learned from them how Puerto Ricans are of three Culturas... Taino, African and Spaniard... We always called ourselves as the "Rainbow People" Unfortunately, the Tainos of the1600's were almost wiped out by Columbus and other Spainard's travelers of the 1600's and beyond... Throughout all of the Caribbeans....

I’m 28% Puerto Rican Indigenous! And proud!

Beautiful ❤

I found the site. I am going to watch. The Puerto Rican comedian is talking

Great job big fan of lenguazamo ,after watching his acting in empire ,tainos are a beautiful people

My mom is taino and my grandmother was most likely 95% taino

That’s the American history. Spanish history, first 8 years of colonization all the atrocities were made. Until queen Isabella prohibited slavery and the bad treatment of indigenous people. Also there are still taino people in the oriental part of Cuba. The Taino mostly blended with the Spanish.

They are described as hairless, broad face, with very pronounced cheekbones, lips a little thick and very good teeth

Support taino from 🇩🇴

The Royal census of Puerto Rico in 1834 established that the island's population as 42,000 enslaved Africans, 25,000 colored freemen, 189,000 people who identified themselves as whites and 101,000 who were described as being of mixed ethnicity.

What interesting is i've read 17% Taino dad and 10% taino mom passed to children obtained 27% according to new ancestry's 2 parent's dna splits revealed.

Sii, algunos escaparon a las montañas!!

I'm not even a minute into this video & I want to make a comment. BTW: a great subject for a video (as even before I knew I had AmerIndian ancestry I was quite interested in AmerIndian Peoples). 😎👍 Had I seen that opening classroom shot where you tell of the extinction of the Taino up to as far as last month, I would have simply taken your word for it. Until this month I didn't even know about the Taino, per se (now I might have run across it several decades ago in a Native American Studies course at CSULB & then quickly forgotten as the course didn't go into any great depth on any tribe, but was rather a broad, cross-country sweep across American Indian history & culture where the "extinct" peoples might have gotten a sentence or three in the textbook); however, just this month I received an Advanced Ancestry Analysis report from CRI Genetics with which I had my DNA tested & to my surprise* it listed Puerto Rican: Taino Genotype (perhaps based upon the DNA extracted tooth from some skeletal remains found at a dig in Puerto Rico not so many years ago); so, whether or not a remnant of the tribe remained intact upon Puerto Rico, Taino "blood" (or DNA) goes on in those currently living today. * = I had no idea of any connection to Puerto Rico. My dad was adopted by a White couple of European decent & raised as White. He went on to marry a gal who looked quite White & only knew of White ancestry, some of it fairly-well documented; so, my older sister & I, being their children, were raised as White. I told my mom that I thought dad looked a bit Asian & perhaps Native American, but she argued he looked German. Turns out he was all that & likely more (CRI Genetics is unable to tell from which parent any particular inherited ethnic marker in one's DNA came from; so, while I know what I've inherited, I can't really say with absolute accuracy what came from any particular parent - esp because there's some overlap of shared ethnicities as well).

Leguizano: los puertoriqueños con origen o sangre taina tienen los mismos derechos y son tan visibles como el resto de sus compatriotas

WE are still here!

El video es más opinión que hechos. Todos los lugares como centros ceremoniales y bateyes tuvieron que ser rescatados y excavados y declarados lugares arqueológicos. El planteamiento de pertenencia no aplica aquí pues implicaría que cualquiera puede reclamar cualquier lugar arqueológico.

as a born and raised Puerto Rican NOPE they are not full Taino so no. we all have Taino blood but a not full taino.

I'm an Indigenous American/Jamaican ARAWAK-LOKONO-TAÍNO CACIQUE CHIEF!

In 1933 with the death of Tommy Soloman the NZ government declared that the Moriori people of Rekohu / Chattam islands had gone extinct , as he was rhe last full blooded Moriori . But he and others had decedents and they are still alive today . Today these decedents are recognized as Moriori officially by the one drop of blood rule .

How can I get in contact with them? I want to learn more about my heritage.

The odd thing is that in the mainland USA people with less Native American DNA ,basically white or black are recognized as Native American tribes .Being that 60% of Puerto Rico has Taino ancestry. They would have to acknowledge many people as Native Americans

My stepfather is 🇵🇷 Taino 🪶and always embraces his indigenous roots

Hank's Partner in detective mode

Pedro Albizu Campos spoke on the hypocrisy of the US of A...if only he were alive today.

I met a Taino in Columbus Ohio. "What are you doing here in Columbus? Your supposed to be running around naked on a Caribbean beach?" He replied; "that m****er f***er COLUMBUS

Yea just let them live

Agh,I would hate to see this beautiful are developed/destroyed.keep it sacred.Too many sacred sites around the world have been desecrated .It would be an insult to their ancestors .

Indigenous Taino From Cuba 🇨🇺 we dont confine to colonial view points and we don’t do blood percentage! We are still here!

My grandmother and grandfather always told me I was Taino

After all of this in P. R. and his show on finding Latinos in America, John will be totally up to date on Latin history and the US diaspora of Latinos. I wonder what he’s going to do with all of that information

May this culture flourish and thrive once more ❤

Anyone else think that younger woman in the white dress was GORGEOUS 😍

Yo soy taino mi abuelita era taina nosotros venimos delos ansestros del grito de lares leonardo rivera yo soy Anthony Acevedo Rivera asi mismo como rene perez semos libertadores asta el dia de hoy pedimos libertado por ell llugo de USA semos los luchadores por la libertad de nuestro pueblo nuestra isla nuestra patria nuestra gente hay qu3 peliar por lo que vale la pena lo que es de uno boriquen la tiera del grandioso dios

We were conquered and we had to pretend that 'we no longer exist' in order to survive. We were assimilated to a certain point that the real lyrics of the PUR National Anthem had to be purged because it sounded too 'revolutionary'. And still today, it is sung.

Censos realizados en los siglos 17 y 18 todavía registraban poblaciones indígenas que formaron comunidades llamadas indieras. El apellido Yambó es uno de los pocos apellidos taínos que sobreviven. Con todo lo pasado no existen taínos puros eso es un hecho.

Me gustaría saber más .soy de p.R. traducirlo al español.gracias

even if they were no Taino WHY WOULD THEY DEVELOP SUCH A SITE!!!!

great

Barbara Pluma Moreno Torres! She’s stunning, she’s just beautiful .. 😍🥰

Bueno el echo de que hablan español o inglés significa que fueron conquistados y Puerto Rico sigue siendo una colonia. Jamás ha sido libre desde que llegó Colon. No estoy negando que no sean Taínos y espero que puedan lograr ser más visibles y reconocidos sin embargo si fueron conquistados

Im a Puertorican woman from new york. The tiano indian bloodline is very much alive. As unfortunate it can be the government is suppressive. Keep the general public aware of what is going on. God bless the island of puertorico.

This guys father even said they are not Puerto rican but Columbian

At around the 4:30 mark you make such a great point; & get this: • For being considered Black, the States used to use the 1-Drop Rule (1 drop of Black African blood makes one Black) • In the 1960s the USSC overturned the 1-Drop Rule; BUT then, Louisiana simply substituted "ancestry" for "blood" & in the 1980s the USSC subsequently refused to hear a case where someone had challenged this word trick being used after being denied a change in racial status under the new wording - so essentially the 1-Drop Rule is still defacto though unlawful (!!!) And yet the U.S. gov't allows AmerIndian Tribes to set their own requirements for acceptance in their respective tribes, but in the case of reportly extinct tribes the U.S. gov't wants to set their own standard(s) of tribal acceptance when it's discovered that some Indians actually survived what was thought to have been various extinction events. IMO, the remnant of a botched/mis-reported extinction event ought to be able to re-assemble or connect in some manner as the tribe(s) they once were beforehand - & they can decide matters of acceptance (& as a member of such a People I for one would welcome all regardless of how little - else we'll have to wait until YHWH our God wipes away all tears). Note: God is on record & remains on record that He shall cause the return of the remnant of the Hebrew Tribes to the Promised Land - & He doesn't say, only those not of any AdMix, for AdMix is permissible in the Hebrew Tribes. Now I ask, Can the U.S. Gov't prove that the Taino Tribe of old rejected Taino-AdMix folk from tribal participation, that such AdMix folk weren't accepted as part of the tribe, that AdMixing was impermissible in Taino culture? 🤔 If not, then it's only reasonable to assume that just as God recognizes AdMix among both scattered & unscattered Hebrew Tribes as being from a respective Hebrew Tribe, then the U.S. Gov't ought to do likewise for the various scattered & unscattered Indigenous Peoples whose ancestors suffered so greatly as to be declared extinct! In otherwords - words for U.S. Congress - Remove the respective callous covering your hearts, you government reps, & do what's righteous in God's eyes (then you'll be well esteemed & make many folk happy). Meanwhile, keep on praying, Folks. ✝️😎👍 P.S.: Near the end of this video you brought up another decent point: that of bringing into a tribe folk initially from without: a quite common practice among various American Indian Tribes that shows acceptance of AdMix into the tribe; so, unless the U.S. Gov't could PROVE that Taino refused to do this, then the amount of DNA doesn't matter - &... I just remembered that among full syblings of AdMix there's a chance that a DNA test could show one sybling not inheriting some ethnic marker that another sybling did inherit. My 1st Coz & I each tested with MyHeritageDNA to discover our respective recent ancestry. Now, even though we share a Grandmother whose Parents were born in Norway & Sweden, MyHeritage didn't directly mention Norway or Sweden on my Cousin's results (& we're DNA-Matched as 1st Cousins & her daughter is properly DNA-Matched with me at AncestryDNA), but for me both Norway & Sweden were highlighted as a large chunk of my DNA - the largest chunk; so, a positive DNA test can be proof of inclusion, but a negative DNA test isn't proof of exclusion. We musn't accept a U.S. Gov't policy of determining a tribe extinct based upon DNA test results, else some American-Indian-hating types could worm into positions where they could re-locate, scatter, & essentialy dilute any targeted tribe until the tribe could be declared "extinct" by the whims of those in gov't - & with the respective treaty(-ies) made void, what the tribe still had up 'til then could be confiscated by the U.S. Gov't. And then they could target the next tribe & the next & so on 'til the U.S. Gov't unilaterally declares all tribes as "extinct," all treaties void, & all past AmerIndian possessions now U.S. Gov't property. Give them an inch & they'll think themselves rulers. - Robin Williams (approx) Give in an inch & they'll take a mile. - Unknown (approx) We just can't leave some important matters up to gov't folk, because many are like ravenous wolves - always hungry - never satisfied (always wanting more, more, & still more as they give back to the People less, less, & you guessed it: less). Our Nation's system of gov't is decent, yet could use a little amending here & there; however, it needs to be administered by decent folk & not the ravenous criminals that have been running much of it for a long time now. End of rant - for now.

The Board imposed by the USA try to sale Caguana Ceremonial Indigenous Center????!!!!!!!! Malditos!!!!!