TAINO DAKA (I AM)

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4 жыл бұрын

Why should the Christopher Columbus statues come down? Learn for yourself from the decendants of the very first Peoples the Taino that Columbus couldn't destroy.
A man is on a journey to reclaim his Caribbean indigenous identity as a Taino. History books say that the Taino People have been extinct for the past 525 years since their first encounter with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World. He is faced with many obstacles both from within and from institutions that continue to keep the Taino People in the past. The Taino are reclaiming their identity and just as history wrote them out of history they are rewriting themselves back into history.
“TAINO DAKA (I AM)” documentary explores Taino history, culture and the indigenous identity throughout the Caribbean and the Diaspora, who are considered to be extinct for over 500 years since their encounter with Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to the New World. Today, Tainos are on a quest to claim back their identity and rewrite their history. What some refer to as the Taíno revival movement can be seen as an integral part of the wider resurgence in Caribbean indigenous self-identification and organization.
For more on Taino Identity: ¿Dónde están nuestros indios? (Part 1 & 2) "Where Are Our Indians?" Profesor Juan Manuel Delgado
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
It was good to see the Caribbean indigenous representation in the festival. Proud of my roots.
Authenticity. Accessible Message. Not Academic - designed for real people.
I like that the film taught me about the region that my family is from. I also appreciate the welcome to understanding as individual identity.
Seeing stories that would not otherwise be told. I’ve worked in film for 14 year. Started a Latino Filmfestival and been on this planet for 37 years and I’ve never learned about my ancestors in this way.Thank you!
Taino Daka - a very important and instructive film. Indigenous People, history and culture are so much apart of this country and so underrepresented and unknown.
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@kpw84u2 3 жыл бұрын

That dude denying Tainos their identity is a colonizer minded liar.

@resistancelucayanmayo 2 жыл бұрын

Yes he sure is !!! He’s got to keep that paper genocide going

@oxeid9801 Жыл бұрын

He sounds like a sellout. Can’t stand his ignorance.

@galeon3271 Жыл бұрын

My friend you are 💯% right...is a lot of ignorant people that are always putting in deny our heritage that is being a Taino... that is one of the most beautiful essential parts of being puertorriqueño or like Americans said Puerto Rican...God bless our heritage and our beautiful island 🏝️ the island of Puerto Rico...La Perla del Caribe mí isla del encanto... Beautiful Puerto Rico 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

@miguelocasio3056 Жыл бұрын

He said being black in our eyes is bad ?? That we don't like to inherit our African descent. He has no idea what he is talking about. Alot of my tios are black puerto Ricans and loves the island ! He is totally wrong.

@Lightfootmicah Жыл бұрын

He works for the same church that took us down the college same entity the negro is indigenous not African but the all are tribes of the children of Israel 💯

@ramonchinea4349 3 жыл бұрын

Taino daca. I exist!! I am not a ghost. I am Taino Boriken. My people never left we were just forgotten. From my island Boriken my words are "Taino's live! "WE ARE NOT GHOSTS"

@maria-rosamccabe697 3 жыл бұрын

Ramón, I am proud to have Taino heritage.!!!when it comes to blood, we all have red blood!!!! MR

@user-vl2mr8mr5u 2 жыл бұрын

Well said brother

@AntiQris Жыл бұрын

I can show where the ‘tain’ in Britain is taino (t=crossed) with ‘Bre/I’ which is ‘Breton’ so really it would after the war of the roses that Taino made it to the throne. I am Plantagenet on the side where Amonute Matoaka come from and Taino/Spanish/Macedonian/Egyptian/Roman on the other. Now that’s a lot of words but the deeper I go into the context of genealogy I find that all the “white” history isn’t that. We are all “Indians” at a point, the real divisions are in morals and cultural surrounding such, city dwellers or Spartan forest folk. Period. Holding on too tight to divisions is the very thing that keeps one from understanding the simplicity of the mystery behind our roots. “Indians” rule the world at many levels that one can understand when we remove feathers from the picture in our heads. I believe ritual and heritage must be respected and preserved but not at the cost of moralistic unity of people. Everyone must be prepared to accept the horrors and the heavens we have made on this earth. This is crucial to finding any truth. My kind had owned many slaves and my kind had built many amazing things enslaved to our own lust for creative accomplishment. I loathe the act of cruel slavery today but also admire and respect the beautiful crafts performed by those sometimes horribly put in positions of hell by the purse man of the project. You don’t have to like it to love it… as grandad would say.

@AntiQris Жыл бұрын

@@maria-rosamccabe697 had a funny thought today, my moms family was called “colored” on census paperwork early century etc.. we like Pocahontas babies mixed with scot-Irish Jewish yadayadas if you dig, berbers I think lol But it hit me today that moms red hair and green eyes and olive yellow skin is actually technically “colored” no? More than say a person with brown eyes and brown/black hair and dark skin which would technically be “shades” closer than “colors”.. what if we got it twisted and that’s what “coloreds” were not folks of African descent etc.? Hope that makes sense I’m not too careful with words but I mean them with love. We have so much to learn about us. Love love y’all

@582Rojas 3 жыл бұрын

Tainos are still here 🧬they forced mixed our blood and we still remain Tainos

@ricosuave7102 2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not some Puerto Ricans have nearly 80% Taino DNA 🧬. Not all of them mixed with Europeans and Africans

@sojrnrr8368 Жыл бұрын

Why are you trying to disrespect the “Africans”? Taino and Africans are one people. That shade you throw comes from the colonial blood in your veins. My Taino grandma always called herself BLACK. That is what Indio means.

@582Rojas Жыл бұрын

@sojrnrR Im not sure why this sounds disrespectful to you nothing is being sed about Africa dissent I highly doubt it unless I'm missing something that got deleted or something 🤔 not sure but if your black and proud say screem weeepaaa! We all Puerto Ricens no matter what the color of the sking is that the beautyof being Puerto Rican, but what I am sure is that the topics is on our Taino not exciting in or out of the island for political native American reasons as natives on the island

@EIGHTIESMOVIERECAPS Жыл бұрын

@@sojrnrr8368"indio" is a eurooean word. Why do you have a problem with people trying to bring light to their native roots? We are TAINO, and we are still here.

@Daron7181 Жыл бұрын

I say let people identify and embrace with who they feel that they truly are and who they want to. I don’t police what other peoples identity any more than I like others trying to tell me who I am. People also like to tell us Black Americans that we should forsake our African ancestors and just be Americans since they were torn away from our home and enslaved hundreds of years ago. As a Black man I proudly claim both my Fulani and Yoruba ancestral heritage from Nigeria since I found those specific through DNA. I am a much more balanced person as there is no longer any doubt as to what my true lineage is. Slavery and colonization cant erase the building blocks of your being. That is bestowed on upon all of us by the Creator/ The Most High. Being an American by nationality doesn’t contradict my African Fulani/Yoruba identity and vice versa.

@SonoranTel 4 жыл бұрын

From Arawaks of Guyana, South America to Puerto Rico. It’s all love #IndigenousProud

@harddonutsmusic3511 3 жыл бұрын

All Love Brother.

@UknownWorlds 2 жыл бұрын

The beginning of the video hurt so much because many years I felt non existence but nature kept calling me. I felt so comfortable with it as it is a part of me. Especially the waters. Many years I have reluctant to research the Tainos because of these words " we are extinct" so I felt like someone without a history and culture stripped away from it. I didn't feel comfortable with the ways of this world but nature kept calling me. Thank you for this documentary.

@jandunn169 Жыл бұрын

I am the same...my parents met in Sequoia National park and being around those giant ancient trees is who I am

@wittyworm 6 ай бұрын

i have been feeling exactly the same wasy... i am so glad to be looking more into this. so many things have become clear. taino blood is strong!!

@EpiphanyGazette Ай бұрын

Wow thank you for posting this. My blood is also calling me to learn more to do more. Posts like this make me feel a little less crazy.

@lifeisblessed4802 3 жыл бұрын

I always tell people it's not the country you are from but the Tribe you are from,Bless all Taino's

@jpburnez5655 2 ай бұрын

Well, all human kind comes from different tribes and only one at the end.

@hilariousgas 3 жыл бұрын

we will not forget the Taino, not ever warriors represent

@jandunn169 3 жыл бұрын

I just found out i have Taino DNA, one of my ancestors was alive when Columbus came and I'm sure it was horrific. Apparently my ancestors are speaking loudly within me to not forget them because I have always fought for indigenous rights before I knew anything about myself. The man speaking obviously does not feel in his heart what being indigenous means. You are doing the right thing.....for Mother Earth needs us.

@LivePurposefully2022 Жыл бұрын

Which DNA test did you do?

@jandunn169 Жыл бұрын

@@LivePurposefully2022 CRI genetics.....on genome link, I got plains Indians and Artic islands and Peru. I give up on knowing exactly but I do know that an Indigenous perspective is the sustainable way.

@galeon3271 Жыл бұрын

Being puertorriqueño and have Taino ancestry and DNA is part of us...the Spaniards were here to do nothing but atrocities thru out all the Caribbean and beyond... it's sad that even to this day is so much people in denial and ignorance in this world 🌎 today...Taino, been a Puerto Rican is being a Taino because it is a crucial part of our heritage and ancestry... it's in our self and in our DNA 🧬... People like it or not... Boriken ( Puerto Rico ) mí isla 🏝️ del encanto...La Perla del Caribe 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

@EpiphanyGazette Ай бұрын

I just ordered a DNA test. I'm excited.

@jandunn169 Ай бұрын

@@LivePurposefully2022 CRI genetics. genomelink gave me a slightly different picture of my Native ancestry

@deeelle697 2 жыл бұрын

This was so beautiful & powerful. I’m African American/Native & studied under Boricua spiritual advisors & historians, who taught me Taino culture & folklore. It was such a moving experience…seeing more information available now is touching. Thank you for sharing.

@tswindell9496 Жыл бұрын

Are you Taino?

@user-ch4kp9qc3b 7 ай бұрын

@@tswindell9496He said he was an African American, I was gonna asked him the same question

@user-ch4kp9qc3b 7 ай бұрын

How are you native, if you are african american?

@gigirf3022 3 ай бұрын

@@user-ch4kp9qc3bwhat’s the definition of “native”? Native does not mean Indian, native mean being origin of a place, I could be a native of Africa, or America, Stop being stupid and following the colonial systems that keep denying black people their righteousness of being original of different land.

@amberamour5395 2 жыл бұрын

THIS WAS AMAZING!! Thank you for sharing our heritage! I give thanks to our Taino Ancestors. Proud mixed Taina woman, here. WE EXIST!

@fashionsocial11 9 ай бұрын

This is not accurate information. White people white wash everything even Jesus Christ of Nazareth… we all know he was a colored man... White People are the most insecure race in history. They are the only people in the world who rewrite history to fit their identity.. it’s really weird 😅😅

@FGPR01BrunoCauz Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: the Arawak nation went from the Bahamas all the way to the North of Venezuela and into the Amazon rain forest. They were considered one of the biggest nations in pre-columbian history and though they weren't the most technologically advanced they held the largest area of land of any New World nation. The tribes of the Arawakan people were split into two groups - Taino and Carib. Though they had small distinctions they were all Arawakan. On the islands the people were massacred, but still live on thru their maternal bloodlines. The mainland Arawak actually live on and practice their religion and culture almost untouched by European influence throughout South America and are concentrated in Venezuela. So if you ever wanted to hear someone speak Arawakan you'd go there and they look a lot like people on the islands and they're 90%+ Indigenous. While on the islands DNA ancestry can range from 60-20% or less of Taino/Carib Arawakan. The Boricua of Puerto Rico/ Boriken are an example of descendants of the Taino, same with Jamaica, Bahamas, Virgin Islands, Santo Domingo, Cuba etc.

@elizabethjackson7262 8 ай бұрын

We have to keep telling our own stories,thank you so much

@timasuna1756 6 ай бұрын

I only know of a single Puerto Rican, one and only one that barely tested over 50%. The guy was supposed to do a Ted talk but never went through with it. So no, it's very low in Puerto Ricans if only 1 ever tested over 50% out of the whole population.

@Youngchiefstunna Ай бұрын

We in Guyana and surinam too

@JoseSantos-uc8cl 3 жыл бұрын

Puertoricans offer peace to this day non stop. Especially those from el campo...

@maria-rosamccabe697 3 жыл бұрын

Hola!!! My great grandmother was Taino and so was her husband. I am proud of my heritage!!!!

@tswindell9496 Жыл бұрын

And so are you

@elizabethjackson7262 8 ай бұрын

Are they part Spanish mixed? Or pure tainos?

@elizabethjackson7262 8 ай бұрын

We need to tell our own stories& put back the pieces of the truth.

@MAG-en5qh 3 ай бұрын

Hi my great grandma was full blown Taino too. I’m proud to have Taino blood

@edwardreevesii5649 3 жыл бұрын

Yell it out loud, Puerto Rican and Proud!🇵🇷

@MixedRogueKhorri 3 жыл бұрын

Tainos are all over the Caribbean

@mikkiminach9539 3 жыл бұрын

@@MixedRogueKhorri Taino dna is mostly found in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba

@MixedRogueKhorri 3 жыл бұрын

@@mikkiminach9539 I am aware but I have also met person in Barbados and Jamaica with Taino DNA . I am not going to make it seem like only Latinos have Taino DNA . When we say mostly we have to look into the historical racism and colonial colourism that affects the Caribbean . So discounting populations that do have valid Taino historical sites and heritage is not fair . They may not have access to testing sites like other countries do . I have met Jamaicans who tested higher for native blood the people from PR . Certain cultural groups were able to isolate better . Maroons and Natives In Jamaica’s mountains had a harmonious relation. I honestly think Latino islands are just more active and vocal about there heritage . I grew up native and I am a proud Lokono and Ciboney woman . But I also know people in my clan have afropan or Afro jam history too.

@oxeid9801 Жыл бұрын

@@mikkiminach9539 thats quantity but if you want to trace it back it goes as far as the Amazon and Mayan so its not about specific country, but instead the life that existed and still exists. The moment you represent only a country is when you begin to isolate and set back the work thats being done.

@user-ch4kp9qc3b 7 ай бұрын

@@MixedRogueKhorriYou can have your afrojam history, but you can not be a taino with 95% or more west african dna, you would be an africa person

@evanvega1647 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in such a whitewashed home that I didn’t even know I was Puerto Rican until I was 12. I never learned to speak spanish, i never learned about my culture. I felt disconnected from my heritage. When I found out I was Taíno, I wanted to reconnect with that part of me. So I’ve been doing research like crazy. When my grandfather passed away and we flew to PR to be with the family, I was so awestruck by the island. They live in the countryside and I felt so connected to the nature surrounding my grandparent’s home. I fell in love with my island and I felt even more connected to my heritage and my culture. Every day I strive to learn more 🇵🇷❤️

@mikkiminach9539 3 жыл бұрын

I just don’t get it. If full blooded Tainos were “completely extinct” by the 17th century, why do so many Puerto Rican’s, Dominicans, and Cubans have Taino blood and usually in a fairly large amount. I’ve seen Puerto Rican’s with almost a whole quarter Taino dna. If they’ve been gone for that long, how do we have so much of their dna

@halfpastdagodhour3953 2 жыл бұрын

I ask the same??’ We are not extinct’ we’re just the forgotten ones!

@wendymoran6759 2 жыл бұрын

Right? My great great grandmother on my Puerto Rican mother's side, was 100% Taino. She was born in the early 1900's, which is long after the Taino were supposed to have been extinct.

@SweetDemoness Жыл бұрын

Its not like they had a census in the 1700s lol

@calirican9163 Жыл бұрын

*watch the video again since you clearly don't understand*

@oxeid9801 Жыл бұрын

Because they are not extinct. We know where we are. Majority just don’t want the attention due to many fair and justified safety reasons. But not to worry the proof will come about when it is safe to do so.

@yorelskcih1359 3 жыл бұрын

Im part taino just start looking up my ancestry learning new things i didn't even know

@ramonchinea4349 3 жыл бұрын

You are Taino, as long as Taino blood run thru your veins. Know who you are, honor your ancestors. Learn as much as you can. Ask your elders as many questions as possible. And you will find a world so amazing! That you will scream to the world!! Taino Daka, " I AM TAINO!"

@tankquiI 3 жыл бұрын

same

@reyskully7778 3 жыл бұрын

Idk if anyone else understands this issue. The new culture is all about the idea out of sight out of mind. I was trying to show someone that I am Taino and the issue kept coming up “why does that even matter? What do you want special treatment. Shits in the past... get over it.” Really? 500 years we couldn’t talk about it because we didn’t know but now we shouldn’t talk about it?? Let’s just leave our culture in the dust and move on I guess..... people can be so ignorant and cruel. Genocide is fine I guess. Cultural freedom means nothing.... Daka Taino!! It’s in my blood and I won’t let this culture go quite into the night, fuck that

@stephr9859 3 жыл бұрын

My father died without knowing he had a Taino ancestor-but he repeatedly dreamed about an elderly native man---I’ve since discovered that our Ancestor lived 300 years ago from dna and connecting with family who know the history. The eerie thing is the night my father passed he chanted some native song during a thunderstorm as if he knew exactly what to do...who knows....

@user-vl2mr8mr5u 3 жыл бұрын

@@ramonchinea4349 awesome man

@bunfucc3485 2 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad to have met/spoke to this man (if I’m not mistaken !) in ipadnyc’s powwow in Randall’s island as a young fellow Taino! Taino DAKA! 💙💙❤️

@miarose7004 3 жыл бұрын

How could someone celebrate a monster who committed mass genocide? I've always hated Columbus Day and now that it's indigenous peoples day, we finally take back.

@mariangelgoire7723 Жыл бұрын

Proud of my Taino and African roots!

@ggmtalents 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for speaking up. I am Haitian Taino Arawakan descent. Blessings to all of you. 🎉🎉🎉

@labelle8110 6 ай бұрын

Welcome ❤️🇭🇹

@youtubeaccount5356 2 жыл бұрын

I’m Mexican, but I’ve seen a lot of Puerto Ricans who have strong Native features, ik that that Taino blood is still running through their veins.

@christineperez7562 Жыл бұрын

Mexican's Also have native features. There are many tribes here's a few. Aztec, apaches, many different Pueblo tribes, Comanche, Hupa, Pomo etc I could go on. Learn your native culture.

@galeon3271 Жыл бұрын

Thanks my brother and yes you are 💯% right...The Tainos still live thru this day and it is thru us...the descendants of that beautiful human beings that were the Tainos, it's in our DNA our heritage... People like it or not We are 💯% still here... and May God bless you always brother...

@tswindell9496 Жыл бұрын

You're Azteca

@timasuna1756 6 ай бұрын

@@tswindell9496Not everyone is a damn Aztec 😅 that's a gringo meme

@jesusitasojeda5711 3 ай бұрын

It's their African roots

@Raeeee100 3 жыл бұрын

i feel the Taino inside me..Jersey Rican baby!

@JoseSantos-uc8cl 3 жыл бұрын

And fight when necessary... yet offer Taino Love...always!

@Mercurychyld1 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t agree at all with that man, at 5:23, who says our people just want to be able discard the African and/or European ancestry...no! We just wanna know and have the RIGHT to know exactly who we are, and to reconnect with our ORIGINAL people, who were indeed the Native Tainos.

@MixedRogueKhorri 3 жыл бұрын

I agree people should know all there ancestry the African the native the Spaniard . History makes a person

@oxeid9801 Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry. He is a sell out who is being paid to sell a narrative.

@pinwheelart2825 11 ай бұрын

So dude thinks you can only do one thing at a time? We can't connect to our ancestors, our roots, and focus on politics? I would venture to say that is the initial step to finding our power to fight for all the other stuff we should be entitled to. 🇵🇷✊🏾💖 Daka Taino!

@michaeltait4850 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you my brothers and sisters for representing. I learned a little bit about this when I was little. The family never talked about a follow up with it. Because life of his changes. But it is in our bloodline. I wish I would have learned of my grandma cuz she know a lot. And also my grandpa. . But they kept it on the hush hush. They passed away when I was five years old. But they used to speak kind of strange. I'll sing a song. Which I never understood it. But at least it's in my bloodline. Just like many others. Maybe it'll be reveal to me in a dream. Oh I find out when it's time to go to God. But no matter what. We were all created in God's image. So we have every color and every nationality. In our bloodline. Because we were created from God's image. God bless you my sisters and brothers. And With much love❤️. Because we are all special and God's eyes. So keep on representing my brothers and sisters. And with much love ❤️. One love and God bless. To the whole world. And to our universe. Our creator God. ❤️🙏👼🦾🏆💪🤼⚖️🧘✌️🌎🇵🇷🇺🇸😇❤️

@BunxBunstudios14 2 жыл бұрын

Colombo didn't discover us! we was already here!!! Taino DAKA!!

@jetset5476 3 жыл бұрын

I AM T A ORIGINAL TAINO INDIAN FROM THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA (HAITI) MY FAMILY STILL LIVE IN TAINO HOMES TODAY! WHEN I TELL THEM WHO WE REALLY ARE THEY THINK IM CRAZY! AND THE GOVERNMENT OVER THERE IS GOING TO TEAR DOWN ONE OF PROBABLY THE LAST REAL ORIGINAL TIANO VILLAGE TO BIULD A STUPID AIR PORT! I STRONGLY DISAGREE!

@jeremyarroyo360 Жыл бұрын

That is horrible. Why does the hatian goverment does not respect THAT,THEY SHOULD. They need to build that airport else were period.

@JCruz83 Жыл бұрын

Why would they think your crazy????

@user-ch4kp9qc3b 7 ай бұрын

Only 4% of you people have taino dna, in the other hand 62% of puertorricans have taino dna, look it up

@labelle8110 6 ай бұрын

@@user-ch4kp9qc3bWho cares? He is Taino. STOP!

@gigirf3022 3 ай бұрын

@@user-ch4kp9qc3byou are acting like the colonial system, if he was white you would embrace what he said, remember the tainos were in Haiti, is it so hard for to accept that some Tainos stayed in the island and mix with some of the Africans.

@alexandercasillasauthor 3 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Haslip-Viera offers an extremely powerful case of why it’s so important for native peoples to be empowered, because it’s clear that he would rather see their cultural identities wiped from human memory.

@reyskully7778 3 жыл бұрын

Because the colonizers believe we wanna be Taino because we don’t wanna be black? Or we don’t like black people??? Maybe we just want our identities back..... everyone can divide themselves by culture but when Taino do it it’s wrong somehow... u can’t be Taino and be productive I guess... shits crazy af. It’s our culture and we don’t even have the “right” to practice our culture.

@MixedRogueKhorri 3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean don’t want to be black ? You can be Afro-Taino ? Many have some for of Afro blood because of the slave trade on every island in the Caribbean

@JoseSantos-uc8cl 3 жыл бұрын

Make sure the Goodness of your heart never dies!!!

@NYCmob79 3 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka! My family is from El Cibao in Quizqueya!

@suindoe8141 Ай бұрын

Incredibly thought provoking, what a powerful message! The fact that we have representation on a global scale is truly humbling. I'm incredibly proud of my Taino heritage, as well as my African heritage. Incredibly proud to be Boricua. ✊🏽

@iikantsleep0 3 жыл бұрын

Taino daka ✊🏾

@chachita369 2 жыл бұрын

On one side I have Tiano on my Puerto Rican side but my Grandmother named Chachita was Tino from Venezuela her Mother was 100 percent Tino. My Grandmother didn't even want to speak the Spanish language or teach it to us after coming to US. Her story is unfortunate and separated us from all family in Venezuela. The energy is fierce and sad when I think about these things. Families lost forever. History that they still want to hide.

@jeremyarroyo360 Жыл бұрын

Our people originally came from Venezuela. Due to the fact there were wars and was forced to move out. Thats great you got to meet them i wish i could have.

@LeLinda-rh7rx 2 ай бұрын

Great Video!

@tinnelledwards6895 10 ай бұрын

Wow this was beautiful and my Taino indian brothers and sisters are so beautiful i hope all tribes of the indigenous americas come together for the sake of humanity and mother earth!!! May the great spirit bless you all!!!

@ManuelFernandezDJ 3 жыл бұрын

We can work for the betterment of our community AND reclaim our heritage.

@BSpazTs 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@elizabethsantiago6764 11 ай бұрын

my great great grandmother told me stories about growing up in puerto rico she was taino ,she always told me keep pure to your heritage of native taino, my genetic test says I am 33% indian I married a man with taino roots I stand proud to be taino be proud of who you are ,

@nancygonzalez2466 Жыл бұрын

The only reason why this guy is saying that there is no gain in wanting to reconnect with our roots, is because that implicates that our land was taken from us and so was our identity. It's obvious that he's comfortable with being something he's not. I Love my Taino people, my dad is a Taino and it's evident in his skin, hair and features. His hands touch the skin of a Congo and hos blood line shows up. I'm proud to know that I have Taino DNA in me. 🧡

@CarlosGAngleroJr1969 3 жыл бұрын

Bendiciones!!!! Me encanto este documental, no lo habia visto, PERO Igual, buscando mas y mas, nuestras raises 🙏💙🇵🇷😎

@saigevalle87 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so angry I’m in tears 😭 🤬

@mariithegreatdynasties692 3 жыл бұрын

@ 31:10 I heard my grandma and mom sing songs like this when I was small tf

@worldwiddeTAINO 2 жыл бұрын

Daka TAINO from Rio Piedras PR.✊🏾🇵🇷

@cofrigugu2020 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. Keep bringing the truth, our people need to know how special we are as a whole. Taina forever

@josephmarrero5373 Ай бұрын

I remember as a teenager going to the Taino ceremonial parks Puerto Rico, you definitely feel a presence.

@tswindell9496 Жыл бұрын

This is crazy. To think that this is my culture, and the way of my ancestors and my heritage. I'm learning so much

@howardwaxman2514 3 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful film all the way through! Pride in your culture and recognition of your historical background which has been attempted to be erased is important to carry on your traditions and to pass on to the next generations. Although the indigenous peoples of the “Americas” were subjected to all forms of genocides, enslavements and humiliations since the explorers and colonizers ravaged the lands your peoples still are here. The Taino/Boricua have been told that they were erased but as was said 10-20% survived so you continue on notwithstanding the mixture of the races (although there is only one race...the human race). Kudos to Alex Zacarias and Roberto Borrero for your scholarship which seems to go way above the sociologist who favors the Spanish heritage and disregards Columbus and his henchmen’s’ pillaging of a culture to dominate the lands that they “discovered”. Quite barbaric!!! The poem/rap done by Intikana, Native Eyes, during the credits was so right on.

@nancygonzalez2466 Жыл бұрын

Columbus didn't discover Borinque because you discover what's never been found and if there were Tainos living on the Island then there was a finding not a discovery. 🇵🇷❤

@titusho2 3 жыл бұрын

Taino Power !!! From Quisqueya ....my Boricua Brothers we must stay close together cause this time we gonna be up front and direct to anyone who Considers us dead! We Taino have never died we been here!! Just like the Aztecas live as well as the Mayans!! We Tainos!!! ...We Tainos! Quisqueyanos & Boringuenos!

@Energy15Real.2uning1n 2 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka. My DNA, haplos, speaks this. My 73 year old mother shared with me last week that my great grandmother was 1/2 Indian, 1/2 Puerto Rican.

@alexsosa7078 2 жыл бұрын

Loved your informative video on Taino . My mother's father was taino and no one talked about it much. As for me here in New Jersey and in Puerto Rico I say " TAINO DAKA".

@kpw84u2 3 жыл бұрын

Columbus didn't sail in order to discover a new world. He sailed to go to India. He got lost.

@resistancelucayanmayo 2 жыл бұрын

He didn’t get lost that’s a lie he came here to this America land because he knew the lost tribes of Israel were here which is why he brought with him hebrew interpreters!

@kpw84u2 2 жыл бұрын

@@resistancelucayanmayo that is a demonstrable lie... you should really lay off the pasta.

@resistancelucayanmayo 2 жыл бұрын

@@kpw84u2 🤦🏽‍♂️ just go somewhere sad a truth is a lie to you, but a lie is truth to you GTHO

@kpw84u2 2 жыл бұрын

@@resistancelucayanmayo actually, your sources for information are found lacking... based on your statement, you wouldnt know the truth if it came as a boat and ran into you.

@resistancelucayanmayo 2 жыл бұрын

@@kpw84u2 your an ignorant troll and don’t know anything, now it’s been proven they have found ancient Hebrew writings here in the America’s !!

@realmomsdontclockout 3 жыл бұрын

How can you discover something people already lived on !You going... wish we was extinct!

@johncortez7809 3 жыл бұрын

Big FACTS.....

@albaida8539 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7uGY7R4sdO9qac.html

@harrywilson404 3 жыл бұрын

Identity is so important, One's heritage is Important in a world that is increasingly homogenizd. It is givi ng our ancestors a voice,

@fishgrl69 3 жыл бұрын

What an amazing film about my Taino people and our history! I love it so much. This is how others are kept down by force, greed, and power of man! @Gabriel Haslip-Viera (Mr. Sell Out) Time Stamp: 4:43 "So pure blooded TaÍnos no such thing, they're extinct!" 46:39 "Umm, extinction of indigenous peoples perhaps that's too strong a word umm, um because um there was survival, there was some survival, umm mostly mixture ok, that's how indigenous populations eh survived eh to some degree by mixing in with other populations, and it begins in the sixteenth century with the European expansion. "So pure-blooded history teachers are also extinct as long as it's only the U.S.' version of everyone else's history!" Sell-outs never cease in P.R.' and the rest of U.S.' version of OUR history. History FACTS all day, every day!! Me: 18% Taino DNA Baby, FACTS!! Pedro Albizu Campos El Maestro y voz del pueblo Taino y Boriken! QEPD querido, amado, ejemplo humilde y regâlo a el pueblo Puertórriqueño! Me imaginaria que era Taino tambien.

@SimonSozzi7258 3 жыл бұрын

This is excellent. Where have you been all my life?

@TaiinaBorikua 3 жыл бұрын

Taíno proud! ❤❤❤✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

@reyskully7778 3 жыл бұрын

If they admit wrong then what? That’s never enough, they would also have to make it right again. Give us our ancestors our land and our culture

@chinalee.3725 3 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka! 10%...💝

@ServantJoe Ай бұрын

I am glad the Taínos are still with us and I celebrate that. I am also glad and celebrate my Spaniard and African roots. I am here because of the Taínos, Spaniards and Africans. The three together are my heritage. Soy Boricua.

@cjgonza2016 Жыл бұрын

Love the film❤

@themadscientistg7804 Жыл бұрын

I was born in 74, and I remember as a child watching the old black/white cowboy and Indian movies in my small 4 bedroom apartment in the Bronx. I would always side with the Indians even when I knew they were going to be decimated by the cowboys. I always felt a connection, a deep respect and a love for their way of life and unsurpassed valor and bravery in the face of adversity. I also remember being in elementary school and being chosen to play a native american chief for a thanksgiving play. I was so proud because the teacher said I had the right skin color and facial features. I am a Bronx born son of two Puerto Rican parents, my dad is from Guayama and my moms side from ponce, but I claim Taino! Not New yorican, not Puerto Rican, Taino Daka!

@kevlaw10 Жыл бұрын

Go to the campos in the mountains of PR and DR and you will see people that are clearly indigenous. We might be mostly mixed thats true but we have to be allowed to accept all our ancestors and that includes Taino. I used to think it was dead, clearly its not.

@reyskully7778 3 жыл бұрын

It’s our culture and it shouldn’t matter how we feel about it. Just shut up and get with the program already.... personally speaking Taino daka, I will not fall in line

@stevemalcon2898 Жыл бұрын

That music at the end is hard!

@blessed18888 2 жыл бұрын

I incorporated this in homeschooling my kids

@all4myutube 2 жыл бұрын

We are not Indians, they live on the other side of the world, we are TAINO!

@temmiepet4183 3 жыл бұрын

Taino daka!!!❤❤❤

@user-ch4kp9qc3b 7 ай бұрын

Indeed!

@rgrantham1000 3 жыл бұрын

This guy in the glasses has absolutely no clue. He is an embarrassment, I have paperwork from my grandfather of the original DNA study in the early 1900's.

@paulharris1747 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you brother

@idostuff220 2 жыл бұрын

Whats the name of the dna study? Can we look it up?

@valeriesantos1713 2 жыл бұрын

DNA technology did not exist in the early 1900’s but the k. Lol

@anitapangan6690 Жыл бұрын

I’m proud to say, Taino Daka. Growing up we were told that my great grandfather’s sister was a Taino Princess. My cousin actually found a picture of her at the school library. I’m very proud of my heritage and their music lives in my soul. Puerto Rican from Hawaii 🤙🏽

@sophygonzalez1259 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I have tried to reach out to different organization all I keep hearing is we no longer exist so I ask myself what the heck am I chop liver I had my son do ancestry cause was so frustrated and guess what WE TAINOS DO EXIST CAUSE I EXIST IM VERY PROUD OF BEING FROM BORINKEN AND BEING TAINO AND THATS WHAT I TEACH MY BOYS AND WHAT I WILL TEACH MY GRANDCHILDREN

@dmh4150 2 жыл бұрын

Taino Blood still Lives...

@elsierodriguez8301 3 жыл бұрын

In my most humble opinion the word (indian) was a mistake made by the conqueror. Another step going forward with claiming identity is fazing out the word ( indian). The tribes of the Western world can claim their own tribes. Tainos stay humble, good hearted, and, may the spirit of our ancestors smile in heaven!! Ay bendito!

@angelamsantiagorivera7899 3 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka a truth testimony. Me Isamaria Angela Ponce 2006 to present, the night of Santiago. Thanks, proudly....Winter Anniversary!

@johsiantorres8495 2 жыл бұрын

We exist! My great grandfather was Taino also

@jeremyarroyo360 2 жыл бұрын

Mine also.

@allegedchicken5406 2 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka. We are not dead. We are not extinct. Those who claim so can live in fear of sins of THEIR ancestors. But mine will never be silenced.

@JoseOrtiz-zx8sf 3 жыл бұрын

Columbus (Cristobal Colon) came under the Spanish flag not Italian. He never set foot in any part of the continental United States, only Puerto Rico.

@flutistmom 3 жыл бұрын

Actually he found Hispaniola first then PR second

@JoseOrtiz-zx8sf 3 жыл бұрын

@@flutistmom I never said anything about PR being first and that has nothing to do with my comment :).

@puertoricanprince7690 3 жыл бұрын

💙💙💙

@JoseSantos-uc8cl 3 жыл бұрын

Columbus introduced War!

@lisandrapagan5494 3 жыл бұрын

How do you discover something when there were people there already....Columbus didn't discover nothing people, nada!

@franciscoambert1772 3 жыл бұрын

Taino daka 15% love from Philly to borinken

@Spotastic9 2 жыл бұрын

Every time that man said "so-called tribes" it just made me some damn angry. Taino Daka.

@tswindell9496 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@philestenamcleod8545 8 ай бұрын

What I know based on my experience, our ancestors never leave us, they are with us. When I didn't acknowledged my ancestral root, they traumatized me, they knew who I am they heard my dad told me of them. They showed up in my space regardless of where I was. It came that I had to accept my root and reclaim my Taino lineage. Today, I identify as Taino and African. I claim Taino first because my dad is Taino. To my Dad, I am sorry that I chose not recognize your bloodline. The final days Before my sister died she told me our dad is with her, he came to take her home. Taino, we are nature we are spiritual.

@tzel2665 2 жыл бұрын

That Caucasian woman at the end doesn't realize what she is saying cause what we know as America soil today is actually Native/Indigenous people's land not Caucasian land their land is in Europe. It's sad people don't know the true, ugly and sad story of how America began. And where they are originally from. Caucasian from Europe, blacks from Africa and natives/indigenous people from what we know as America today. We NEED better and truthful history books.

@ricosuave7102 2 жыл бұрын

Well what I’ve learned over the years is that the natives that inhabited Boriken were not like any other people that the Spanish encountered in the Caribbean and South America. Early descriptions of the people from different conquistadors at different times said that the “Taino” had thick,hard, straight black hair,skin of dark gold, short sharp faces with a high nose bridge, almond shape amber color eyes. Thier bodies were defined and had almost no fat since they had almost no sugar in thier diet save for sugar cane. There were also other people on the island but looked more like natives in South America with Asian eyes and very dark aboriginal looking people that were a war like tribe that the Taino had wars with. There was a DNA study done on a skeleton of a Taino woman thousands of years old. The scientists restructured her DNA and found that she was the closest person to what they consider a perfect human. Also a scientific experiment/study was done on Latinos as a whole and they found that we age the slowest of all humans.

@valeriesantos1713 2 жыл бұрын

Sugar cane is not native to the Americas. It was introduced to us after the Europeans came.

@ricosuave7102 2 жыл бұрын

@@valeriesantos1713 sugar cane was here long before the Europeans. It was brought by the ancient Polynesians to South America. It’s origin is in south east Asia .

@jeremyarroyo360 Жыл бұрын

💯🇨🇺🇵🇷❤

@ricosuave7102 Жыл бұрын

Yes it was. Studies on the way coast of South America prove the Polynesians were here long before anyone. It’s obvious that they had brought other people with them since the clothing and some languages like Chatino sound very similar to mandarin.

@nakuro2686 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like AA. Always kind forgiving,accepting

@iamjeislynn3249 Жыл бұрын

Hermano thankh u, do you have any information of Ciguayos?

@krakmynutz 3 жыл бұрын

Who is the artist at the end?

@eduardoarroyo4239 3 жыл бұрын

Taino Daka!!!!

@tresconswingyelalmasecreta7608 2 жыл бұрын

Taino Indians in Puerto Rico still there There is a lady that the DNA came out hundred percent Taino Indian Maybe not everybody but they’re still there My grandfather was a native Indian

@EpiphanyGazette Ай бұрын

Great documentary. I've been curious about my roots lately. Trying to find myself I guess. I've cut off communication with my mother, she's very toxic & we never had much in common. I am Puerto Rican on my father's side but I didn't grow up around that side of the family. I actually just ordered a DNA test, I'm really curious to see how much Taino show up. But I already know it's there I can feel it, like my blood wants me to learn more & embrace that part of my of my identity. I'm going to film doing the DNA test and then researching the results for my KZfaq channel. I think it's interesting, and there is very little representation in the Taino community. I didn't even know about them until I was in my 20's🤯

@justice77justice Ай бұрын

Taino Forever It's part of our Soul it's in our Blood Taino Boriken Boriqua Puerto Rican Peace Love and Blessings to ALL Puerto Ricans around the world Wepa

@johnhunter8113 3 жыл бұрын

That academic is totally conditioned into a colonial world view, he is lost. He argues against terms such as 'race' but then uses it to support his position in a reductionist race based way. He forgets 'culture' makes us, connections make us, not just genetics. Why identify as Taino ?- what does Taino mean? - family - people - identifying as family that comes from and is born to place through kinship and culture DOMINATD by Indigenous experiences. Maybe that's why Taino identify as Taino - over 500 years of experience and culture dominated by discrimination against Taino - that experience is a Native experience - resilience, love, connection to family -connection to other cultural groups/experience - African, European dominated by the Family Culture of TAINO way, surviving selective 'RACIST" race based treatment. WHY IDENTIFY AS TAINO BECAUSE YOU ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TAINO! In solidarity and with love from your Aboriginal Australian relatives.

@stephr9859 3 жыл бұрын

I recently discovered that my dads father was Cuban and had a Taino ancestor. You would NOT believe the comments I get from People who minimize this discovery and poke fun at my attempts to understand this connection. People are divorced from their roots, and our Earth, and themselves-by the colonial culture that pervades. It is sad.

@SweetDemoness Жыл бұрын

I love my African brothers and sister's so much but for once I wanna hear about the other side of my ancestry, don't erase tainos!

@saigevalle87 3 жыл бұрын

It’s has nothing to do with gain it’s has to do with knowing who u are and were u come from okay

@reyskully7778 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone assumes it’s political in that aspect, but we want only what is our. Our rights and culture

@user-lo5bb6vv6v Жыл бұрын

Yes I am🎉🎉🎉

@yanf525 2 жыл бұрын

One thing is for sure, some wants to separate Tainos and other Latin American indigenous peoples from Native North American, I believe they are the séame from different places.

@johsiantorres8495 2 жыл бұрын

No they knew each other they were just different Tribes