New research links ancient indigenous DNA to living Puerto Ricans

A new study found ancient indigenous DNA in Puerto Ricans, breaking a previous myth that the Taino tribe were eradicated in centuries ago. Maria Nieves-Colon joined CBSN to discuss her findings and why the discovery may help correct Puerto Rican history.
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[@rosadocrew]

Any Rican that grew up in the island knows this.

[@rosadocrew]

They teach this in school In elementary bro . I learned this in like 3rd or 4rth grade

[@XixiSplash]

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.

[@yolrivers1866]

I look like a taina no surprise for most people from PR. There were in the Virgin Islands and neighboring island as well.

[@jiorji5057]

I grew up in the states and knew this. Lol.

[@Ambtran2023]

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.

[@aletaadams86]

This happens when others write your HISTORY.

[@inesmontescedeno1922]

Exactly

[@javi8905]

Or when someone tries to rewrite history and erase yours from existance and nearly succeeds

[@narayanelnuevohombre9866]

Yeah, because is his-story not our.

[@Charlydx21]

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.

[@estefanomasferrer6828]

US history books that mention columbus and tainos mention this mixes

[@davidoliver9805]

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!

[@MuneMun-fm3qz]

Los judios eran los que estaban en puerto rico las tribu perdidadas de lsrael

[@luish19779]

We have taino blood,& from Spain & African too...Viva Puerto Rico 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@benjaminrivera3190]

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.

[@ariefraiser140]

@@benjaminrivera3190 Your blood is your blood no matter how it was obtained. You wouldn't exist without rhose 2.

[@chefjoscooktv]

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.

[@jazminewilliamssn9194]

@@benjaminrivera3190 there's nothing wrong with black blood

[@user-th8rw4eg6m]

@@benjaminrivera3190 Your IQ is sure from taino blood. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@blazayblazay8888]

Soooo you thought Puerto Ricans were lying all this time

[@BKking6]

Brooklyn Style ☑️ why is this a surprise ? Here in NYC, you could clearly see PRs, Dominicans, etc who were Taino.

[@blazayblazay8888]

@@BKking6 I guess they were if the Tainos were completely wiped out there would be nobody to make the reparations check out to lol

[@luisviera6347]

@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!!

[@BKking6]

Brooklyn Style ☑️ what are you talking about ?

[@blazayblazay8888]

BKking6 genocide

[@louis1443]

Long live the Caribbean 🇵🇷🇯🇲🇭🇹🇩🇴🇨🇺.

[@HighDefinitionVideo]

Louis rodriguez hey bro what about the USVI flag :)

[@lcplfrancois]

@@HighDefinitionVideo sorry no American passports allowed

[@Greatgreg100]

@@lcplfrancois Puerto Rico like the USVI use the US passport

[@lcplfrancois]

@@Greatgreg100 Puerto Rican are not too crazy about being a common wealth

[@Greatgreg100]

patrick F. Yes I understand that but Internationally PR and the USVI are recognized as Americans and therefore use the US Passprt

[@maxefex4479]

About 20 years ago I was talking to a Taino Cazique "Chief" he said "the Spaniards thought they had eliminated us but in fact we hid in their Blood"

[@mia7061]

That's so inspiring. How did you meet a Chief?

[@mia7061]

@9mm Capone it was never a war, he murdered and raped and enslaved my people.

[@TheAll5555]

Brilliant! 👍🏻🤜🇵🇷

[@tainoman1998]

Which cacique was it??

[@jameshowell6160]

@@mia7061 TELL LIKE IT IS.

[@Valentinathevamp]

That’s what happens when ‘others’ write YOUR history. We are still here!

[@light-beige]

They were trying to wash that blood out. both government P.R. and the U.S.

[@iloveplatano]

The only people that didn't know this are Americans. This is why latinos identify by their ethnicity because we're a blend of many races.

[@vliciouss]

Yeees !!! We identify by our ethnicity. You said it perfectly

[@aspendraws6173]

Yes!

[@jiorji5057]

Yes! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 we know what we are!

[@astraltraveler1]

🤣

[@rafaelluna8909]

I agree

[@D809G]

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

[@macheteafilao13]

Miz Dixon that’s a Panamá flag not a Dominican flag.

[@DualPurpose]

@@macheteafilao13 lmao

[@D809G]

@@Ohaiii344 those are facts, Cuba, DR and PR have more in common than most people know or care to know..but yea that's not the Dominican flag lol

[@D809G]

@@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

[@DualPurpose]

@Kamar G tianos, arawak, etc. There were different tribes like west african....yoruba, igbo, and hausa/fulani.

[@dalisegar2513]

Can we acknowledge her commitment to finding this information. Great conversation!

[@ronaldinhogaucho5460]

No

[@andresvalentin6924]

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.

[@network263]

More like arawak is a branch of tainos. Scientists also discovered native tribes in South america and colombia got same tainos bloodlines

[@casketman14]

@@network263 I was gonna say this too

[@dahomiestef]

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

[@sally9352]

@@network263 tainos is a branch of arawak because arawak came first.

[@MochaQueen5]

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.

[@Luiiciano]

We’ve always known this. Taínos still alive through us Boricuas

[@prod.cruzomg1782]

@IMxYOURxDADDY lmao bro you pathetic af

[@dbbrainer]

@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.

[@granddeception4290]

@@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.

[@puggo25]

@IMxYOURxDADDY facts but the original tainos was black

[@puggo25]

@myfav0s2012 facts

[@goldengoatee2237]

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.

[@sir.fuentes7642]

Heresay

[@jesusnavas7728]

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.

[@davidmartinez9804]

Yea just like DR you see the most Taino people or people of Spanish blood in the mountains.

[@josephrosario5447]

most of em died with pride and fought back, some hid .

[@LaPlaga88]

@Bidu Bidu nope

[@reycangri]

My grandpa looks like a straight Taino Indian so this is not a surprise

[@sillie484]

You should see my maternal grandma!

[@jalicea1650]

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.

[@dilciaenid57]

Yes!

[@blakrumba]

I'm not boriqua, but even I know that the Tainos weren't eradicated. Boriquas have been saying this for forever.

[@tylineburgos8879]

blakrumba right

[@sunnybunny8470]

blakrumba FACTS!

[@brendabrenda6843]

Hearsay is not the same as scientific proof.

[@sereleg07]

Taino genes still present in most Puerto Ricans.

[@sereleg07]

@sneksnekitsasnek Totally agree

[@QSmoonman75]

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]

You're probably at best 10-15% Taino. So cringe how y'all claim them with twice as much African and 5x more European DNA on average.

[@desireerivera2464]

@@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 ...

[@itscoral]

@@duckmercy11 it's more cringe to have an outsider speculate on someone's DNA and how they feel about their ancestors/culture.

[@slat7t632]

@@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 🤦🏾‍♂️💯

[@duckmercy11]

@@itscoral If y'all didn't wave that stupid flag around so much and wear your identity on your sleeve acting like you're better I wouldn't care.

[@RafaelAndre00]

Every Puerto Rican that lives in the island already knows that. Like, everyone knows this

[@jessecarmona7812]

yea I knew it through my greadma

[@Jokaanan]

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]

@@Jokaanan Never believed what? That puertoricans have an ancestry?

[@Jokaanan]

@@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

[@daughterofthecreator2585]

Also I think its important to prove scientifically, this could allow those on island to reclaim ancestral land and artifacts.

[@elizabethsoto4850]

Soy puertorriqueña y me siento extremadamente orgullosa al escuchar esta información!

[@HaroonAmad]

Apocalypto and every imagine that we use to see was a lie. The people of the Caribbean our mostly African I've seen it.

[@HaroonAmad]

They our 80 percent Black. I know what a Black Behind looks like.

[@A_Mister_E_Ous_user]

​@@HaroonAmadHow do you confuse, "our" with, "are"?

[@chuckie102883]

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.

[@iwill9572]

How much African DNA did you have

[@1981cvalentine]

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🙂

[@orona3081]

I'm 21% Taino from Utuado✊

[@izphilly1]

@@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.

[@macho3866]

UniquelyMade its crazy that u know that when they just found this out

[@rickr937]

In other related news scientists have 100% confirmed that Puerto Rico is an island!!!

[@blackcaesar4u]

If every land mass is connected to the Earth's core then how can any land mass be called an island. Hmmm?

[@stateofmind4341]

Surrounded by water??🤔

[@blackcaesar4u]

@@stateofmind4341 every land mass is surrounded by water

[@aubreyharper4829]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@gregoryglass9040]

Lol

[@lexy4983]

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?

[@TheMilagros1982]

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.

[@thenbwkmtkspktrminc.4613]

Exactly 💫

[@iloveblue76]

I'm Puerto Rican, born on the island, but raised in NY! My family always taught me this! Nothing new! 🇵🇷

[@vianjelos]

@@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.

[@Heunorthodox]

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.

[@davidescobar3368]

Common sense goes a long way. But on the other hand science needs definitive evidence which is what they found.

[@obeb787]

Well not necessarily, because it was beleived that they died off from viruses & bacterias the Spaniard had & slaughter.

[@traineresports726]

Akwasi Agyeman you got it...that’s the truth...

[@Crysco.mp3]

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.

[@desalineredux435]

Crysco only a small number of Africans were in the Western Hemisphere prior to 1492.

[@hospicenursingab]

Duhhh people don't disappear they got blended with the other people they live amongst.

[@obeb787]

Well not necessarily, because it was beleived that they died off from viruses & bacterias the Spaniard had & slaughter.

[@carlosvazquez4059]

They never came in peace they came to conquer Slaughter

[@hospicenursingab]

@@obeb787 a variety of things happened throughout the history of humanity. All of one kind didn't just get wiped out by one particular situation

[@obeb787]

@@hospicenursingab yeah? How do you know that?

[@hospicenursingab]

@@obeb787 message me and I'll school you

[@ltune79]

We aren’t dead, we’re still here ✊🏼😎

[@ask4theupgrade359]

-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]

Jewish people too .

[@ask4theupgrade359]

@@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.

[@sereleg07]

Interesting information of one of the best people in the Caribbean.

[@lonewolf0992]

This is true because my great grand mother’s mother was of Irish and Lebanese decent

[@htx92]

I am interested in tracing my ancestors who are Puerto Rican on my fathers side. If I may ask how did you go about finding this information. Thanks

[@NezD]

All my 🇵🇷 friends in Miami have Taino blood. I’ve never once heard of that bloodline going extinct

[@radrook7584]

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!

[@luisrosario7413]

Truly amazing, Puerto Rico is just completely filled with wonders!

[@grod805]

How is this incredible? Can't you see that Puerto Ricans are brown?

[@hectorortiz2022]

grod805 Bigot.

[@ipewpewalilbit6681]

grod805 my family is white asf not brown lol

[@joelrivera7383]

Not necessarily their is white tipe with red hair or even blue eyes and even blonde that can pass for Irish

[@fernandgutez2383]

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.

[@gmpacheco60]

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.

[@jacobortega2786]

But you're not... both are descendants of european and indigenous peoples...

[@The_SixShooter]

Arawak in South America is like umbrella, alot clans scattered all over places indeed

[@radrook7584]

The Tainos travelled to Puerto Rico from South America and displaced other tribes that had been on the Caribbean islands..

[@thrranger1983]

This kind of seems like old news. I've heard about this YEARS ago. However, it's good that a major news network is looking at this information.

[@georgebou5497]

This just in.... water... wet

[@chanelmone4721]

George Bou lol

[@jessicalee3546]

Lmao!! Love that

[@Anacaona4]

😆

[@Lilliamjtorres]

Like Trump discovered, we are surrounded by lots of water🤪

[@Marie.Manifesting]

🤯 😂

[@alexnatal3363]

You guys miss the boat we Boricua know this .Tainos live in us.before them we’re the Arawark.

[@victormarquez4826]

I”am Puerto Rican .I had friend who Mexican .did not believe Taino native lived in Puerto Rico .it lives our blood

[@The_SixShooter]

Even Taino migrated to America too

[@pearls1404]

You didn’t need a test for that. Even as a non puerto rican I can see it by looking at them that they have indigenous ancestry

[@angelicaacevedo-morales191]

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.

[@lucyrodriguez971]

:) 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!!

[@rafaelventura-rosa4688]

Lucy Rodriguez Borikén

[@ohiobuckeye5828]

Rafael Lucy is right the word Borinken has its roots deep in Taino culture.

[@lucyrodriguez971]

@@ohiobuckeye5828 yea. Although i did spell it wrong. I agree thst Taino roots are deep.

[@lucyrodriguez971]

@@rafaelventura-rosa4688 :) i fixed it. I often type so fast that i get caught in a bit of errors.

[@lucyrodriguez971]

@@Natasha-yl9wu we have such strong roots :)

[@JerettFranklin]

🙄😣They play enough tribal music here at 2 am in Rio piedras. I could've told you that

[@dbbrainer]

That is sub saharan african heritage though.

[@japprivera3129]

Yup, she could have gone to Rio Piedras and in 40 mins have a thousand subjects and the results of those wasted 10 years

[@chantellesang2423]

I’m only 7% Indigenous Puerto Rican according to my DNA results, but I’m damn proud of that 7%

[@justjd5780]

Most ricans already knew this 😂

[@gamalierestradajr]

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.

[@Jeremy-se1kp]

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..

[@gamalierestradajr]

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.

[@gamalierestradajr]

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.

[@gamalierestradajr]

LUIS VELEZ No I’m not. I’m mixed olive skinned like my mom & grandma 😎

[@gamalierestradajr]

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.

[@emo72387]

I did one of those ancestry kits and I'm Puerto Rican and have 14% native blood.

[@boiwth5406]

E Martinez nice you just gave the government all your familes past and future genetic DNA record.

[@cujamrasalgethi6994]

@@boiwth5406 like they didnt know before he did.

[@boiwth5406]

Cujam Rasalgethi most people that do this sort of stuff don’t think about the consequences lol so no.. I really don’t think he knew what he was doing

[@valkiron11]

@@boiwth5406 Really? What are the consequences as you see it?

[@Ashley-fd7cj]

UVIIC wow you’re so paranoid, if you go to the hospital to get blood taken then they already got you and when you were born they took dna from you

[@ivanberriosdiaz2578]

Great interview thank u!

[@82elilly]

I'm so glad! I was born in Aguadilla, I got curious and did an ancestry DNA test. It sure enough said African, Portuguese, and Indigenous!

[@winddragonmma]

TAINO roots, African branches, European stems.

[@cgonthebeat3741]

Much love to my Puerto Rican cousins 🇺🇸

[@ajsplace12]

If you have Taino blood, you have African ancestry. Tainos had African ancestry. They were very dark people.

[@aranielleb7718]

@@ajsplace12 you really want to seem special? Native people are NOT black..

[@ajsplace12]

@@aranielleb7718 Im sorry. You seem upset. Im not sure what you want me to do about it. Facts are facts.

[@cgonthebeat3741]

@@ajsplace12 All humans originated in Africa many years that is true, but Tainos weren't black.

[@JohnSmith-il7jn]

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.

[@jomolololo4398]

Like some mexicans can pass for indians straight up , and those mexicans with spanish blood cannot.

[@richarddavis3980]

Yes you're right that's why I said duh a couple comments ago haha

[@natevazquez9739]

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...😉🇵🇷💪🏼

[@nmagain24]

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

[@est9515]

I’m Dominican and found through my DNA test, I have a large percentage of taíno DNA…. Am so proud of this! 🇩🇴

[@ilisabelpaganrivera733]

Not new. Just a confirmation of well known facts for those who are familiar with some historical and anthropological findings.

[@orlandovelastegui1391]

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.

[@gpr13martinez88]

Eso lo sabíamos ya los puertorriqueños 👊🏽🇵🇷

[@JoseGonzalez-bt1fo]

We as Puerto Ricans knew that all along

[@yxlgnzlz9110]

Puerto Rican already new this fact

[@hectormanuel8360]

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. 🇵🇷🇮🇨

[@mocatree]

The PR accent is almost indistinguishable from the Canary Island accent.

[@dhitz01]

Great work!

[@FLeXn_YT]

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.

[@radrook7584]

All Puerto Ricans don't share that ancestry.

[@FLeXn_YT]

@@radrook7584 you might be right but most do. Just dig around and do some research and you'll be surprised.

[@radrook7584]

@@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

[@RickWorleyPR]

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]

Some of the Taino cultures are still being practiced and recognized.

[@davidfigueroa4859]

It’s news because Europeans lied to us

[@chanelmone4721]

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.

[@kristinlanders1481]

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?

[@Janabstra]

@@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.

[@TheAldoinMiami]

We've known this all along, how else do we have native-looking grandparents and such? they didn't come from Mexico I can tell you that...

[@charlesleeray8512]

Native American is native American no matter the part of America they came from😂

[@benjaminrivera3190]

For REAL!!! I have been preaching this for the longest time!!!

[@joserosa5342]

The good part here is, the study is pointing that Taínos came from Amazonia. That's nice.

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

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.

[@magickmoi1261]

Make Racists Afraid Again 👍

[@JohnSmith-il7jn]

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]

Make Racists Afraid Again oh of course race is a social construct

[@bargaingoldandsilver]

John Smith race is a social construct

[@JohnSmith-il7jn]

@@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.

[@GUSTII7]

Puerto Ricans are a mix of Spanish people taínos and Africans Edit: explained simply

[@lillydejesus9510]

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.

[@guabo719]

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.

[@TheJbonez1000]

There's also Irish German Greek Italian European dna.

[@raquelregalado3854]

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.

[@iwal1645]

Tainos are very much alive just sitting here quiet, reading a book.

[@leonardohernandez541]

We the native people of this land are still here!! 💪

[@locojazz5770]

This isn’t news for them. That’s news to WP 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@wendellbeverly6060]

No, I think most white folks are aware of that, I know I did, it's obvious.

[@locojazz5770]

Wendell Beverly This comments is for the folks that label all Spanish speaking folks an ‘ illegal alien ‘.

[@amyangell2378]

Im white and been knowing this , it was taught in history class that they may have mixed .

[@commendedzuez0944]

A lot of Asians and Blacks also don't know this, not just white people.

[@radrook2153]

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.

[@anthemmakersmusic]

Who gave an extinction theory, try amalgamation, mixing my friends, Taino, Arawak, Caribe, and Europa. That's Puerto Rico.

[@PHlophe]

iHola! Bandit , all of the above + Africa. always africa in the mix. periodt.

[@alanisyizettemiranda8966]

We've been know this but it's good seeing that other island get to know this .

[@davidtorres6491]

Puerto rican hair, style, clothes, etc. Could of been such a thing really compared to other islands, if 75% of puerto rican descendants didn't leave puerto rico, sad

[@orona3081]

Yes I'm 55% European 21% Native American 4% African I'm 100% Boricua✊

[@cutepr]

@@elinmortal.6264 Ubicate! Puertorriqueños=Tainos=Españoles=Africanos! Ignorancia decir que los Puertorriqueños mataron los Tainos. PUERTORRIQUEÑOS SOMOS TAINOS.

[@Ambtran2023]

@@elinmortal.6264 Puerto Ricans have Spanish, Taino, and African dna in them.

[@orona3081]

@@cutepr asi es Que viva el Boricua✊

[@wolfheart2443]

@@cutepr Verdaderamente que se dedique el Carlos a su historia de Ecuador porque con la de Puerto Rico esta bien colgado. 💪💗🇵🇷

[@maryanndickson107]

@@elinmortal.6264 Did you listen to the report? Maybe you're a troll, because nothing in your comment makes sense. Paz

[@aracelisgonzalez-reyes]

Finally! they notice we still exist!!!

[@aranielleb7718]

You're diluted, you're not 100% tainos..

[@amaryahshmaryahukabas8355]

And you don’t need them to notice

[@charlesleeray8512]

@@aranielleb7718 she looks full native to me...

[@XixiSplash]

Y'all late asf. 😂 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@okeithwhite]

Right

[@pandoradiamond1]

It's one thing to know where you come from and another to have a scientific genetic map of your ancestry. I love it.

[@hector012672]

Wow.... we already knew that...

[@1981cvalentine]

I recently got my dna tested and I come from maternal haplogroup C1..and damn proud of it! I love my beautiful family❤️❤️

[@dondi2129]

The Taínos never died out...they mixed in. I thought this was common knowledge. Long live all of indigenous ppl of the Americas.

[@Atmosphere404]

Love This!!

[@domingohernandezdejesus6018]

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.

[@guabo719]

There has been a lot of ethnophobia about this.

[@luisromero776]

Its the divide and conquer technique. Have the afro and indian population fight each other, but it aint working anymore.

[@mysticalfox4546]

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.

[@AngelRosado]

I remember hearing this when I was in 5th grade, I'm in my forties now.

[@Patty.29]

BEAUTIFUL. FIND

[@tessrnwannagoplaces1995]

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.

[@jorgefs300fs7]

That is stupid, the ones who killed the natives where the puerto ricans, there antecesors. Today Spaniards have nothing to do with that.

[@anastasiarose1430]

Hispanic people having a Native American DNA, oh, my God I'm so shook!!!!!🙄🙄🙄 It's as if the Spaniards didn't colonize the Caribbean 😮😮

[@anastasiarose1430]

@Luis Monsanto lol who are you referring to?

[@anastasiarose1430]

@Luis Monsanto 🙄

[@luisromero776]

@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.

[@arod2104]

Getting involved on this project and research, would be a great opportunity for a PHD student. Good job guys!

[@eddylorenzo5033]

They still live in the mountains of Puerto rico its guarded

[@faithvalentin1403]

by who? and from who?

[@eddylorenzo5033]

@@faithvalentin1403 do ur research

[@faithvalentin1403]

@@eddylorenzo5033 i AM THNX FOR NOTHING

[@eddylorenzo5033]

@@faithvalentin1403 sorry just now and days noone knows who's after who keeping my ancestors safe dont take it personal but yeah still alive very few

[@faithvalentin1403]

@@eddylorenzo5033 those r my ancestors too n i understand

[@glimmeringsea5105]

Very interesting!!!

[@localtwelve1138]

They thought they can bury BORICUAs. They did not realize.. We were like seeds. 🇵🇷 💜💪

[@estefanomasferrer6828]

Who tried burrying us? This is dumbest research ever made everyone in the island knows its basic 2nd grade history

[@amariewalenda3801]

Finally the true comes out, QUE VIVA LOS TAINOS Y LOS AFRICANOS 💚💚💚💚💚

[@prod.cruzomg1782]

@darkeagle got nothing to do with you forsure

[@aranielleb7718]

@darkeagle they try to include Africans in everything..

[@lh7071]

They will never tell you that the taino were speaking hebrew.

[@kerocz3363]

Y los blancos? Son tres

[@santosperez1048]

@@aranielleb7718 don't hate

[@MissAngelaThunder]

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.

[@carlmanu]

In Cuba there are still living Tainos segregated in the Holguin province. They never died, they just hid from everyone.

[@mikkiminach9539]

Many Cubans are mixed with Taino too just as much as Puerto Rican’s

[@angelcrisp4841]

Who ever thought they went extinct were idiots lol 😂

[@aranielleb7718]

Urm they are extinct fool..

[@J.D.Vision]

@myfav0s2012 Real Puerto Ricans that know their history, would easily ignore her.

[@wendym2192]

@@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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5C0mJ2rbsSCpsk If there is a genetic trace, then that means it has survived.

[@bumbuns7887]

Aranielle Benny you dumb

[@byefelipe5826]

I definitely always knew in my soul that I have Taína blood in my veins. I look Taína and everyone my whole life always says that I look Taína

[@Alex_FRD]

We've been tought this in school for decades. Congratulations on catching up, I guess.

[@ifyouknew]

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.

[@carmenmaisonet5695]

Old new for us Boricua ! They told me this when I was in school in the island

[@honeypoo8]

Where are my proud 🇵🇷 at?

[@wolfheart2443]

💪💗🇵🇷

[@elenaarman-tang7811]

🙋‍♀️💜😍

[@wolfheart2443]

@@elenaarman-tang7811 Si sabes que esa es la bandera de Cuba, Verdad?

[@elenaarman-tang7811]

@@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 😘

[@wolfheart2443]

@@elenaarman-tang7811 😉✊

[@rafaelhernandez2017]

Thanks ":)maria!!

[@mingojulius]

Hello my latino brothers and sisters, keep in mind..spanish is a language .not ethnicity...

[@efilwv1635]

Well it’s stupid to assume that an entire race has been wiped out. Europeans mated with these people.

[@efilwv1635]

riyyah D true. A lot of rape went on.

[@luisromero776]

Well lets put it this way. All the mating done in europe in ancient times of conquest was due to rape. A christian custom brought into the new world by catholics and protestants. Praise jesus!

[@Skooh2000]

So that makes them More American then Americans.

[@citlalie9791]

Just makes them indigenous

[@mysticalfox4546]

More indigenous

[@buntingy]

Amazing I'm still trying to understand the haplogroup a2 and c1

[@frankiecintron7308]

It just solidifies what our grandparents told us about where we come from