Puerto Rican Dance -- Taino Indians of the Arawak people

The beginning of the History of Puerto Rican Music and Dance performed by the Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center at International Cleveland Community Day in the Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art. This dance featured very young dancers representing the first indigenous inhabitants of Puerto Rico, the Taíno people of the Arawak Indians. www.clevelandpeople.com/groups...

[@josehernandez1363]

Proud to be puerto rican.

[@masterofvillainy8404]

Same

[@rawbarber9012]

Dalé!! Puertooooooo Ricoooooo!! 🙌🇵🇷

[@abcbee1308za]

WOW TAINO WE'RE STILL ALIVE . LIVING IN PUERTO RICO / CUBA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ESPANOLA /Venezuela GOD HELP US ALL .

[@alexmath8618]

Yes they still have taino in island and this problem with White Man there be lying to special people from God.

[@melaroha8003]

yes TAINO PEOPLE they are one of the lost sheep of israel the tribe of ASSECHAR or GAD

[@elchistozo1239]

EXISTEN MUCHOS TAINO EN COLOMBIA SE CREE QUE EN ALGUN MOMENTO DADO DE LA HISTORIA IMIGRARON DE COLOMBIA Y LLEGARON A NUESTRAS ISLAS Y SE QUEDARON---SE CREE QUE ERAN ORIGINALES DE COLOMBIA.

[@melaroha8003]

@darkeagle if your white you aint right

[@nelly5054]

They were also in Jamaica

[@aidacandelario9910]

Puertorican's are Taino's cause is in our DNA💃. We're not extinct as many say. We're still here. God bless this children. 💖🌳🤗

[@starlight3872]

Oh my, such beautiful music

[@coconutmonkey2823]

Hello, I'm Taino and IM STILL HERE!! My Grandparents from San German were as Taino as looking at them and so are many of my Cousins currently. My Grandma had that thick shiny black hair, the face of Native Indian with my Grandfather having that leather skin about him and super strong facial features. Cant mistake it. We aren't going anywhere PA QUE LO SEPAN!

[@user-fi7bk3hw1o]

I WAS AYING THE SAME THING

[@user-fi7bk3hw1o]

WERE NOT EXTINCT, AMERICA!

[@jchewilliams1144]

These kids are beautiful. Yes there are taino in haiti and jamaica. Dna is deepet than skin color. The Caribbean is a mixed race people. The original taino were copper tone; some darker, some lighter. The avg modern day taino mixed with eupoean and African. Every decendant would retain something different from their taino dna. Not all would retain the copper tone skin. The original maroons were tanio and eventually mixed with west african runaway slaves. Their still villages in Jamaica hidden in the mountains. In 2018 many Puerto ricans were tested positive for tanino dna. This changes history. I honestly believe some of caribbean people would have taino dna. Shalom from Jamaica

[@janayobey2720]

Haitians and jamaicans are african. None wrong with it. Africa is where everything started!

[@jchewilliams1144]

@@janayobey2720 africa is where everything started for you. Jamaicans are jamaican and hatians are hatain. We all Caribbean islanders. u hav ppl in jamaica who hav no african ancestry but they still jamaican. Culturally, spirituality and historically we caribbean islanders share more commonalities with each other, than we do with africans. I love africa and we would never deny that aspect of our hertiage. But we are our own ppl with our own unique identity.

[@makedaeagle7023]

@@janayobey2720 My grandfather from Jamaica is taino.They are in every island. They were the original people then African were brought over.My father even he is mix he look like his father people but with curly hair.Then blood line past down to his children and grand.Even the those from Trinidad and Guyana would embrace them.

[@janayobey2720]

@@makedaeagle7023 oh please. Stop. Delusional. I haven't seen not one Jamaican with more than 3% native American. Fairy tales.

[@thebirds2406]

janay obey Black Africans were brought to The Americas and The Carraïbes. Former Hispaniola is Haiti and Dominican Republic, same as Jamaica even Martinique in France was Native Americans-Austronesians land. When you say everything started in Africa from science or what theory? But yes indeed as far as Science explain and teach it started in Africa with 3 distinct Races : Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid. And as far as Science found and explain one Race come out of Africa and travelled and settled around all the corner of this world in the land of tropical places, fire, snow, frozen grass land they were everywhere and build civilisations Kingdoms and cities and trade and diverse architectures, clothings, war tools, arts and so on by then Negroid and Caucasoid were Neanderthals hehehe. Many civilisations are old but as far as Science and Archeologists and Historians knows and have discovered Only Mongoloid civilisations are the oldest , ans The Americas is very very old as Old as Proto India and Siberia and Anatolians. Caucasoid of Africa started to build civilisation when they trade and became Afro-Asiatics-Semitique. And The Egyptians trade with The Austronesians original Arabs of Peninsula Arabia since 8000years back , the people of YEMEN, SABAH land. The Indigenous Americans are all of Siberians tribes. And Siberian people have more than 1000tribes and Hundreds of Sub-Race if you like. Such as The Austronesians (Arawak, Sarawak, Amazonians, Formosan, Atayalic) , The Turks, The Anatolians Turkics, The Tibetans, The Tundra, The Yayoi, The Manchuu, The Veydic/ Siddharta, The Jomon , etc... too many of their Sub-race and each of of them have settled massive land and build kingdoms and civilisations and trade. They are Mongoloid RACE but they have their own look. Some are very tall, some are average tall and some are hairy some not two kind of face features straight nose and rounded but not flat nose, both always with cheekbones you may see a picture of an Atayalic VS a Dayaks of Sarawak. Most of the indigenous if South America and The Carraïbes and from California US are of their ancestries mixed with other Siberians tribes. You're a victim of "Colonialism education and white suppremacists" , you might be Black Africans but AFRICA is continent not a country and Africa in not the land of The Black alone, go travel and learn and see The African Continent heritage! They have put in your mind that everything is dark and brown and you claim that 😂 Also all Black Africans are not the same some are very advanced civilisations and very rich some are Neanderthals and has not known much of evolution by themselves. It is great to be Proud if who we are, and We are equals Negroid exist Mongoloid exist, and Brown is not a Race , Caucasians is not a Race both are mixture of Two to Three Race. White people living and are from the African continent till this days they are Phoenicians with dark hair and Original Syrians with blonde hair and blue eyes ancestors of the Germans/ Germanics. Anatolians, Turks and Austronesians have ruled and established Kingdoms in North Africa and Mediterranean sea and Peninsula Arabia they even ruled over the Negroid and Caucasoid of Africa. Haitians and Jamaicans are indeed Black Africans but the Proto-Haitian and Jamaican and Puerto Rican and Dominican Republic and Cubans are Indigenous Americans Tainos- Austronesians both Mongoloid first people to Americas

[@tamaravazquez9444]

Taino inside me😊 God bless those children great Job..

[@yasminbeltran7812]

The tainos are very alive. The Puerto Ricans are part of the tainos, africans and Spanish people!

[@bigpapi7471]

This is the Race that makes us Puerto Ricans and Dominicans special not white or black

[@christianboy3971]

Marcus.abi ilarraza Haha, everyone is special, race doesn't make an individual more special than any other race of people, you are an idiot. At the end of the day we're all human and have to die and face GOD on judgment day like everybody else, there's nothing special about your indigenous tribe of people, you all are human just like every body else.

[@GailBecker-MSED-CM-Author]

Lory & Jordan Amen! My maternal grandmother!

[@xxmidnightprincessxx]

Marcus.abi ilarraza that is true. But Dominicans also have french roots in them. Dominicans are a mix of the Spanish, French, African, and Taino while Puerto Ricans are a mix of the Spanish, African, and Taino.

[@danielleedwards7696]

Not African

[@yahawahbahashemyahawahshib8632]

My Taino ancestors will be very happy to see this.

[@jamesboth3785]

Would love to visit one day. Love from India

[@juricoaboritaino6680]

I'm sorry but the lady announcing about the Tainos being almost non existing is wrong. we have a huge community on the island and through out the United states a huge taino culture group and I'm part if it. I'm not Puerto rican. I'm boricua taino. my tribe is called Concilio Guatu MA Cu A Boriken. We are not new age tainos. we are traditional tainos like our ancestors did it. another thing is that this music sounds like south American traditional music like played in Ecuador called San Juanito. I know because my wife is from Ecuador and I know this type of music. When doing Areyto the traditional music is just a drum, a Mayohuacan, maracas, and a maracas and that's it. there is no flutes and no rondado either so who ever decided to do this event should have gotten their project facts straight first. And for all those that think that tainos don't exist then I say look into your heart, mind, and DNA because before Puerto Rico was Boriken. Boriken lives in you mind and I'm your heart. If you can live it then it exist so don't forget where you came from. Boriken is in the blood and we have to fight for her. She needs us and we can't let her die. I'm more than proud to consider myself a taino. I'm not latino. I'm taino.

[@gabrielruiz3622]

Taino Pride

[@robiebag5764]

it's very obvious to me most Puerto ricans have alot more taino blood than anything else . I mean of course they're mixed but since most look more taino they obviously have more taino in them than other races . well technically all humans are mixed race . okay bye

[@sapointi]

robie bag that's not true at all.most Puerto ricans aren't over 25% Taíno. they're a lot more Spanish than anything else. and others more black or equally mixed but there doesn't exist any Puerto Rican that is more Taíno than anything else.

[@gabrielruiz3622]

Sapa Inti well thats a misconseption there are actually they're not that common but there are straight up native people here

[@sapointi]

robie bag lmfaooooo who tf are you?? my Cuban grandpa IS A SPANIARD! My sisters dad is 100% BORICUA! He has VERY obvious African and Spaniard features! (Afro hair, receding hairline) and no there is no Puerto Rican that's 65% native lmaooo my sisters dads dna results are on my channel along with pictures of him and his family he's 12% native/taino 39% African 48% European. how get your racist ignorant self out of here. for a Puerto Rican to deny their African or Spaniard roots is just ignorant.

[@Naguake2012]

THIS IS NOT A TAINO DANCE NOR TAINO MUSIC. HOWEVER, THE STUDENTS WERE EXCELLENT IN THEIR PERFORMANCE. BEAUTIFUL!!!

[@moshenewsletter4620]

www.latinamericanstudies.org/ancient/Stewart-1939.pdf?fbclid=IwAR26-4FkIHymwyPPH5oB414NxMQ0h41IJXAWN8A9oA6lt9Gm8tsuze-POKo THE AMERINDIANS WERE ALL NEGROES, HISTORY IS A LIE

[@ThePaganSun]

@@moshenewsletter4620 You're giving very inaccurate information.

[@josehernandez1363]

Nothing like tainos music.

[@thebirds2406]

ROBERT RUSHNEWSON HAHAHA Again thise kind of theories from White suppremacist and Aryans preacher 😂😁 Keep trying and tell the entire world are Black and your Race is suppreme, bunch of heretics and sheep

[@tainahernandez4825]

That I know of there is no sheet music or official recordings of the traditional dances. Modern day Taino decendents have to improvise. It's nice that the kids can use their imagination and feel comfortable acknowledging their taino heritage. Due to many years of oppression these kind presentations weren't allowed. It's a step in the right that we're living in a time when it is finally safe to express that part of carribbean culture publicly.

[@geopa2149]

Que lindo esto!

[@KittyBionic]

We Tainos are still here. ❤

[@adaechevaria4047]

Awesome Loved

[@thequeefers9015]

We been here for ever,hallways said we here,didn't need no DNA tests, but there it is! Told ya! Now we New Age? We been telling you this for as long as y'all been here,only 500 years. Our roots are far more aincent.

[@thequeefers9015]

For the record there are Dominican and Cuban and Jamaican Tainos, I'm from Boriquen. Boriquen, however has also Carib blood. They took Luisa out for saling out. Most natives in Boriquen survived for two reasons, 1 they fought the Spanish there,2 It was the last island to be invaded.

[@user-bc5hf1qd8t]

day dreamer finally someone says it, so tired of people not realizing that Dominicans Cubans and Jamaicans are also Taino

[@Sam-dn2ck]

What year was these took place? Im a polynesian tongan to be exact tribe..i see alot similarities with south america natives to us and our culture i believe most of the polynesian tribe scatter all over the pacific ocean comes from south america

[@Nina-vv3ev]

Cute coqui singing in the background

[@craftymama518]

Lovely video with a bit of misinformation. Tainos and their culture and DNA are very much alive. I am Taino. We are working to address the "paper genocide" that our people suffered at the hands of colonizers. I'm very happy to see the young people honoring my culture. Thank you.

[@xxx8890]

I’m Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian, I can assure this isn’t Taino music, this is Andean music from the countries of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Argentina....

[@juanmirandacruz8887]

Muy bonito.

[@prototype2020]

coqui coqui coqui what a wonderfull song

[@elaineen1]

Due to intermixing of races Caribbean people share many blood lines. We come in many hues. Yet the Tainos were there first. One example: my daughter and I were at a street fair where numerous artists displayed their wares, paintings and other items. We entered a booth manned by a tall dark skinned black man. My light skinned daughter immediately commented on his paintings indicating he displayed Taino symbols. The artist asked her if she was Taino whereupon she replied "Yes." We are of Puerto Rican heritage. The artist said he used Taino symbols as a display of part of his background. He was Haitian. Despite differences in color or hue we both have inherited the Taino culture.

[@juricoaboritaino6680]

Sapa Inti you are correct if you live on the island but we do have chapters here in the USA that are an extension of the one in Boriken. for example we have a chapter in New York, Philadelphia, PA , Texas. we all teach the same. we get the knowledge from boriken and we teach all of those that want to learn the culture. we don't discriminate. all are welcome. if you want to reach out to me you can find me on Facebook and I will try to get you in touch with a workshop. we have workshops 1 a month and it's all free. come one or come all with open arms.

[@chantelyork1348]

Juri Coa Bori (Taino) I would like to learn. My grandmother was from Puerto Rico and half Puerto Rican. I also have Native American, a few different tribes as well on my father's side. I'm curious about my lost heritage as I didn't grow up with my father's side of the family.

[@LuisSanchez-cw5io]

admiro al pueblo de puerto rico o mejor dicho BORINKEN por exobir con orgullo sus raíces y no como Quisqueya que muy poco conocen nuestra historia tan asi que le adjudican a los africanos la mayor parte de los instrumentos musicales

[@pierreancelin8872]

ESA MUSICA NO ES PUERTORICANA SINO PERUVIANA, BOLIVIANA O JUJEÑA

[@user-fi7bk3hw1o]

Gracias!😊

[@juricoaboritaino6680]

edemir when your not in school where do you go to live

[@CHELOF9]

Very cute.

[@joseamirandajr3723]

We are not extinct...********... We are not extinct...********... We are not extinct...********...

[@soniaperez2315]

Awww que bellossss

[@innocentdusabe5620]

Tainos u are the Israelites from the tribe of Ephraim and manasseh, Deuteronomy 33:17 2ESDRAS 13:40-45 Ur forefathers went captivity because they broke God's laws, u are part of black race, we are the children of the Most High God,

[@chestersabajo5527]

Wow i am Arawak from Suriname, South America .we say Halikidjakoha ,wich means Good Day

[@pierreancelin8872]

This is just a native american cliche performance. I don't where they quote these costumes and choregrafy but the music is from Andes Cordillera rather than Puerto-Rico,. It's a Yaravi, Huayno or Carnavalito like dance. THIS IS QUECHUA MUSIC, NOT ARAWAK.

[@ingrid2040]

I am Bolivian and this is music from the Andes. I hear the charango and the Andean flute...

[@ThePaganSun]

@@ingrid2040 It's the music of the ancestors of the Taíno who came from Venezuela. I'm Puerto Rican and when I did my DNA test I had 10% Native American DNA that was generic but an additional 4%-5% that came specifically from the Andes (so about 15% indigenous DNA in total). I was surprised! Until I remembered that the ancestors of our ancestors were said to come from Venezuela. Or another theory (proven partly true by our DNA evidence) is that they came from the Columbian Andes.

[@thebirds2406]

And why the music suprised you!? As an indigenous Americans there are Musics and crafts handicrafts and clothings and manners and culture related. In fact It is no surprise that one may here that music in Peru or Bolivia or Ecuador or Puerto Rico within the Amazonians tribes of those areas also even with Natives in California Central America one may hear that music. Why? Because many South Americans indigenous tribes are a combination of Austronesians Atayalic-Sarawak/Dayaks and other Siberians tribe , and each one of those tribes have established their own signature clothings and dance sometimes similar and still something similar in the clothings as well. Those Huge skirts are from the colonisation influence as those huge skirts used to be made of Raffia or Agave for many Amazonians/Austronesians Sarawak and they change it to Fabrics, usually the Atayalic make fabrics than Raffia and Agave clothings. Besides many indigenous Americans fleed and were displaced . Do not assume as an indigenous from Peru or somewhere in Bolivia or Chile or Ecuador or Mexico or Navajo, Apache, Lakota and so on that till this days all of you were the exact Tribes from before, certainly not everyone fled and fought at the sane times and stayed and joined together , even White European Americans wrote about that . So, just enjoy and let them keep what they remember and what is left of their heritages and their culture, We all know they fought and stood plain and proud still living in their motherland! "So a Native American cliché performance is it" indeed because they are one and similar

[@pierreancelin8872]

@@thebirds2406 Not all traditionnal "native american" musics sound the same (andean, Mapuche, Guarani, Northern american etc...), they have dinstinct features, like europeans traditionnal ones. This music is clearly andean. Even objects are picked up from various nations obviously, the kind of wood rattle you see at 0:39 is assiociated with Guaranis for instance kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJWYpGOmbbF3q5o You can hear this guarani music does not sound like what you hear in this video, which is a soundtrack quoted in a collection of andean music.

[@pierreancelin8872]

@darkeagle I am just warning people who would believe that this is genuine Arawak music and custom.

[@lalaflorez7066]

Esos instrumentos no son tainos, son andinos. Y los vestuarios no son tainos. Pero es un excelente intento por revivir nuestras raices y transmitirlo a los niños . Bravo!

[@josecaraballo6326]

Ubuntu Escuela Ecológica Waldorf used save que ropa usaban Los tainos??? No creo que nadie sepa

[@TheSimmpleTruth]

Los tainos no usaban rop con l excepcion de l mujer casada que usaba una nagua, cobertura frontal, el cacique y su esposa.

[@williammoreno-pp1og]

Tainos 🥺✊🏽 my brothers and sisters that almost lost everything we Lencas feel you, as our language is extinct keep up the good works and as a main land native that is a mestizo, we don’t really see much in the islands it’s almost African and eru cultures but, I’m glad these people are saying the stories and dances.

[@solangedeolsane7170]

Mi abuelita era taina pura...yo me enteré cuando aprendí a leer...ella tenía una raya tatuada por debajo del ombligo, un par de dedos...y ponía tai na...y un palmo más abajo otra y decía Tai no más. Y yo le dije abuelita, y que es eso, y me arrimó un chuletón

[@yaninavega1907]

where's the rest

[@luismillan1514]

song name - nombre de la cancion? :1:20 ??

[@nancygambedotti7597]

Saludos soy maestra en Puerto Rico ,me gusto mucho ¿como consigo la musica del video? para baile de mis estudiantes.Urgente por favor, gracias si puede ayudarme.

[@BabyAxolotl20]

my culture is finnally being represencted yayy

[@Kiyaboymom5]

the taino indians were in all parts of the Caribbean including Jamaica that is why us Black and Latino should get along we are all one people

[@qzgoonieify]

Im Jamaican recently found my ancestry links to Taino and puerto rican

[@joseamirandajr3723]

We are alive and well...********... This is Turtle Island...********... We are the true Heirs of these lands...********...

[@ddinfant679]

So I came here wondering if there was a legit Taíno dance and right away run into gorgeous Andean music... How do we know the sound of the actual Taíno music and the dances the Taíno actually did?? Is that, actually gone forever? The other native sounds and dances have been passed down through generations but I don't remember actual Taíno music or dance being available... And here I see south American Andean music that's not even what's considered the Indian music of South America. Andean music is equivalent to seis chorreao, décimas, traditional country music, like the bluegrass from the US.

[@nelly5054]

They were also in Jamaica

[@juricoaboritaino6680]

edemir castano where are you located. I am a taino and I am part of a tribe. we are Concilio Guatu MA Cu A Boriken. we are the New York Chapter. if you tell me your location the I can probably help you. I'm really glad you reached out to me.

[@edemircastano6091]

Bori Vapez I'm in Rhode Island for college

[@manickavasagamsp]

Beautiful dance by innocent children .

[@wolfthegreatalpha4732]

My Spanish ancestors when they arrive in Puerto Rico.in 1492 the Spanish saw people with paint faces the Tainos use a native puerto Rican plant name achote so can you imagine I will be scared shirtless I will shoot everything that moves but when people say the natives of Puerto Rico died off it's not true the Bloodlines still live my first girlfriend in Puerto Rico was a Indian taina beautiful woman and in my opinion the tainos Indians that survived should have made small communities in the island to stay pure but they didn't do that they mixed thank you for sharing this beautiful video. God bless my beautiful Island oh by the way Puerto Rico has many names 5 total

[@josecaraballo6326]

Wolf THE GREAT Alpha Some how I dont believe you. sounds so fake that look like you making this shit as you go

[@uwiblue]

Christopher Columbus and his crew arrived at Borikén on November 19, 1493 during their second voyage - not 1492.

[@kerobinne]

Im born in Curacao but Arawak family

[@yasminbeltran7812]

How do they know about the music and dances tainos might have done? Don't get me wrong I love my race, I am Puerto Rican born and raised. I just want to know more info on the Tainos. I did research but did not get much.

[@danirican5731]

+Yasmin Beltran They dont know....they just looked at indians in venezuela and other south american country and mimic them,here in Puerto Rico there is no such thing as this,we are all mix are taino history was vanished from the island.

[@danirican5731]

***** Im not saying we dont have taino blood,im saying we dont have there culture,i live here in Puerto Rico i know what you are saying,but we dont know how the taino danced or there practices,these Puerto Ricans in the video are very known here in P.R. and in a documentary they said that because we dont know our taino culture they got it from Venezuela and other south american country,so for me to see this is just fake and not Puerto Rican.

[@danirican5731]

***** but why is the white man racist??? if he was he would just say the white population is perfect,dont you think?

[@danirican5731]

***** lol well if they say im perfect ill let it slide lol

[@danirican5731]

***** Ive seen it already,like i said the people that play Taino indians are not pure blood Tainos and the culture they have its not ours all that dancing and stuff they do is not from Puerto Rico they have been in interviews here in the island and they say that because we dont have a Taino culture they took it from other places so is not original to Puerto Rico,a lot of the island look at them like crazy fanatics.

[@elchistozo1239]

ARRIBA MI COQUI-NATURAL de arecibo y vivo en miami.

[@thetyrant2695]

Anyone know of the Andean music name called in this video please let me know if there is a KZbin link of the song

[@Hayuya0001]

All the Taino people been went to the Bronx facts

[@lloydnelson6920]

To 😍

[@MariaGonzalez-nv3nl]

Educate ur selves boricuas we hve a lot of gifts n talents. And a perfect DNA.

[@MelissaGarcia-vh2xd]

We aren’t almost non-existent!!! We are still here! There are millions of us! Please stop spreading false information. We still have Areito Ceremonies and we aren’t Latin. We are Indigenous. Our island isn’t called Puerto Rico, it’s called Boriken. Taíno ti. Seneko Kakona.

[@PaDesactivarInquisidores]

Y nadie habla araguaco por aquí que me enseñe algo!!!

[@icfent]

Not all American Indians are pale skin like this, most these types are hybrid from the spanish, to just say arawake ppl is not true, there is a wide range of those tribes and yes many was dark looking with long hair also, i am one of them with a arawake background also mixed with african and Asiatic indian

[@synsious]

darkeagle ur stupid asf if you thought native Americans had redskin and long straight hair cuz they resembled black peoples they bred strictly with each other

[@lobopoderososdl3076]

@@synsious You are the one who is stupid Africans had nappy hair and Tainos had long straight hair.

[@davidtorres6491]

I think the reason you kept your dark tones because u said you have African as well and I think that African is more traits dna

[@travman387]

RIDICULOUS!

[@travman387]

afterray listen idiot: call me whatever fuck you want but i you ever call dominichango ill kill you,fucking seriously! since when this shit is part of our culture? i was born and raised in PR you moron and this shit was never part of what we called culture. PROVE ME WRONG! this is fucking ridiculous,period!

[@katheriner8841]

woa needlessly bigget tone to all that. nobodys talkign you down like your nothing mor ethan a deseased rat in the street. the hell is your problem

[@katheriner8841]

everyones getting overly hostile over kids performing on a youtube video...

[@katheriner8841]

needless ignorant labling is always the root of bullying smh,and i bet half or nay MOST if not ALL of you are grown

[@sodapants3328]

Yeah my family talks about our culture and believing this is what got me so lost with what is real. Vejigante and Guanbacex that’s ours.

[@lizlizza12345678910]

Beautiful kids!! But, nobody really knows if the tainos really dance this way or if this is the music they listen and dance to! Nobody will ever know..

[@josecaraballo6326]

Well we are assuming that the music from the today's tainos in DR, Cuba and Venezuela are not too different than the tainos here, dont you think. Have a little creativity mija

[@josevillagrana571]

Shit Puerto Ricans make up shit as they talk they make up there own words because they are mixed with the blacks blacks mumble they can't talk

[@matthewmann8969]

Pure blooded Amerindians are very short in statistics in The Caribbean

[@emmybot4397]

This is how my ancestors danced?

[@daylilyleighton5931]

My Abuello came to the United States in his adult years, in the 1950s. He wasn't around me long, but seemed to know he wouldn't be, and taught me as much as he could about his ancestry and traditions. He was from Puerto Rico, and may have had a colorful ancestry, but was definitely giving me a lot of Taino based knowledge. The costumes, music, face paint, dancing, etc here? Not Taino. I remember what my Abuello sang to me, the description of the drums as he thumped his fist to a beat he remembered. I remember seeing him dance to that. He could draw just a little too, and I remember the pictures he drew of his home, his family, and some outfits that were clearly for festivals or ceremony, all done in my childhood crayons. This is not Taino. It looks like a mix of a bunch of different things from random Indigenous peoples. And considering what that voice over said in the beginning? They knew that. I remember the stories my Abuello told about how his family, he himself, were treated in many places just for existing. It's not unheard of at all for things like this to reduce the entire collective history of many nations of people into a homogeneous, stereotyped "Indian Nation". (No offense meant to people actually from India.) This is something we've all seen before. It's something my ancestors knew personally too. There is no more excuse for this nonsense. I miss my Abuello. Speaking out about what was important to him is all I have left of him. Y'all better knock this shit off. The Taino people deserved better. (Side Note: Perhaps some parts of this are accurate enough for a different branch of Taino people my Abuello wasn't familiar with. But every single detail here speaks of a completely different cultural background. Maybe one or two details are right for someplace else. But everything filmed or spoken here, is, as a cohesive whole, absolutely wrong.)

[@leojav8661]

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO CHOOSE THE MUSIC? THATS PERUVIAN MUSIC NOT PUERTO RICAN. CONFUSING FOR THOSE POOR KIDS AND CONFUSING FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD. THANKS!

[@BreuckelensFinest]

My understanding is, Tainos came from Peruvians and the Mayan? Am I wrong? Was I lied to in the history books I read as a child? Just a thought.

[@alexmath8618]

Beautiful people tribes Ephraim

[@icelordthetrader9013]

NATIVE PRIDE!!!!!!

[@rodolfocamparotticamparott5700]

en quisqueya hay tainos puros en la laguna de nisibón unos alemanes realizaron varios ADN ..en varias familias eran 99.9% tainos puros

[@osib9111]

Rodolfo Camparotti Camparotti Nike

[@jorgezenquis2007]

TAINO'S were not African decent. I'm not African decent. I'm a TAINO not Black. So talk for your self NOT me. Stop kissing Black people ass.

[@digambarbadakh5205]

It is nice then western

[@thetreeleadergardener545]

🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@mrizalsarkodes818]

𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘪

[@puto_dominknmayatsousiosgh9632]

Awawak🤟🏿🤟🏿🤟🏿🤟🏿🤟🏿

[@mjsanchez2173]

W

[@anamarjimenez4224]

That´s not Taino's music or dance at all, but good job for the kids. Also TAINOS are not dead, its in my DNA.

[@Rachel-oz6gl]

We’re are in exsistence! Wtf I have 20 percent Taino dna

[@SuperLovelychina]

How can anyone say that the rains are non existent when I look in the mirror I see myself as a taina with mixed features of all my ancestors my African, taino, and Spanish blood is very vibrant in all our features

[@nancygambedotti7597]

Es sobre el baile de los tainos

[@i_vision_iconic]

DAKA TAÍNO YO SOY 🇵🇷🌀🙇🏾‍♂️

[@daysha583]

We never had taino culture or music all of a sudden we do??? This is what they think they did things not original.

[@ipeeinmysinkimafraidtocome7127]

put salsa ,shake those kids

[@renzogarcia4762]

The Cacique is asking for help.......YOU MUST READ THIS Honorable Mayor, With all respect, I humbly ask that you take the time from your important duties and obligations as Mayor of Amityville in the county of Suffolk in the empire state of New York in the country of the United States of America to read, investigate, analyze, judge and meditate under a prayerful heart what I will humbly request of you in this document of mutual communication as citizens of this great nation. You might not know me by name or title, I lived in the Village of Amityville in an adequate dwelling located in the corner of Oak and Lake in front of a beautiful park with a lake. You might have heard or known my family since we have been somewhat active in the community. My ex-wife Fanny Garcia has an educations degree and was a teacher in your school system for a while. My four sons, Renzo Andres, Ramon Antonio, Fabian Luis and Miguel Angel Garcia all studied proudly in the Amityville school system, participated in sports through your local clubs, worked in your local shops and businesses and attended our local Catholic church. I myself enjoy all this with my family and loved were I lived dearly. So what happened you might ask for me to be asking you for an urgent request now? Good question but if you do not already know let me first tell you a story about who I am... When every person is born we all are innocents, tender and in need of care; don't you agree? But, even though we are tiny, fragile and with soft skins, we all carry steal a great burden into life...The previous history of the life lived by our ancestors; is this right? We only know how great or small it is when we are told of it, but we are all born innocent of the previous acts of humanity. I was born on the 27th of February in the year of our Lord 1964 the day of the independence of the great land of my people Haiti Quisqueya, today known as Haiti/Dominican Republic, to a mother named Indiana and a father named Caonabo Garcia; the last silent Cacique of my land. At that time my mother Indiana was in New York City with a child in her belly was requested to return immediately to her land because the future Cacique needed to be born in the sacred land of his ancestors. You see honorable Mayor this fact I did not know at birth a fact that a neither asked or wanted but accepted as my fate in this the land of the living. When I was a child doing childish things I did not know history, family issues, secrets, death, agony, circumstances, responsibility, honor, loyalty, consequences....and must important who was an Indian....not to mention a Cacique and what that meant until I was trained by my elders from my birth until to the 12th of December of the year of or lord 1973 when for the first time in my life I left the country of my birth and stepped upon the land of the free in the city of New York in the empire state of United States. I did not question the fact that even though my father was the inspector of the system of education in my country I never attended public school but was personally trained...I thought that was normal but was not. I learned about our role as a family descendant of the Great Caciques of the Maya / Aztec Empire, I learned how we came to this land surrounded by waters, how we lived, our culture, our civilization, our beliefs and our struggles to survive. I learn how my people one day believe in and embraced a great wondering Cacique that appeared walking the lands because he was the perfect example to imitate, not just because of his words, but because of his actions, deeds, love, and miracles performed. I was told many, many times in many different ways how as he departed towards the East hovering on top of the waters after promising that one day he will return my people without hesitation or fear, full of love and passion, entered their ships and followed him into the unexplored waters after him. My people the Mayas discovered first Cuban (The land first touched) a short distance away, when into Jamaica ( Land of the Gods because it was so beautiful ) and settled in Haiti Quisquella ( Land of high mountain rest of the Great Cacique ) stayed, my beloved Island land that I Love. There we waited for his return...and...there we became TAINOS. It was hard for me been so young to understand, cope or comprehend what that descriptive word meant.....my best meaning is and what I understood after many years is....Godlike. As the time of my departure to safety in the Super Power of the time the United States of America drew near, even though I was not fully of age, I was told our cruel reality and the dangers of revealing our well-kept secret to the world. Why? DANGER OF DEATH. My ancestral Grandfather in 1492, when we supposedly were discovered, was Caonabo, my Grandmother was Anacaona together they were the Mayor Caciques of that time, Caonabo the Cacique who became CARIBE for the first time in our history. Caribe was a descriptive word that was very hard for me to understand even to this day.... my best meaning is and what I understood after many years is....The devil incarnated. It was told to me many times to calm my young spirit down from anguish when I used to hear them speak and describe the works and magnitude of selfless brutality this sound conveyed that they assured me that it is impossible to become Caribe voluntarily. To become one is only possible if the God of the Universe himself allows it for his glory. So, why did the godhead of his people become one?; When he realized that his hope of being able to finally see with his own eyes what his people were so anciently waiting for for so long was not true but a total lie. Engulfed in deep spiritual mourning over the fact that the person that he believed to be the Great Cacique of our past turned out to be a salvage. They came not to love but to rape, not to give but to take, not to heal but to kill. So he was turned CARIBE for the first time in his life. Then he proceeded to destroy their fort “La Navidad”, killed all but a few, took all their possessions and forced the saved ones under submission to teach us how to use and operate their foreign weapons and prepared for the return of the in basils. WAR was declared. It took trickery from the Spaniards to be able to submit, capture and then kill this great man. CAONABO After he was dead his wife continued with the struggle until she was tricked once again like her husband had been tricked into committing a larger mistake; remembering the Taino’s way of life, trusting and believing their intention for peace she was convinced to gather all the Caciques of the Islands to meet in a formal consul to negotiate peace amongst them; as the Caciques were seated and waiting inside the palace meeting hall and my Grandmother was outside inquiring why was taking so long to commence the meeting and talking to them, she witnessed with her own eyes how the soldiers of the enemy closed down the assembly and put it ablaze killing all inside it. Later as an example to her people she was hanged in the great plaza, cut into pieces and her bones and flesh were displayed all over the land. Our people fell under a dark cloud of an intense feeling of mourning, anguish, and hate and now we all became CARIBE against them. Fleeing for their lives, they mistakenly forgot about her young daughter, my ancestral Grandmother who was immediately protected and concealed. later she married my ancestral Grandfather known all over the world as Cacique Enriquillo. Tainos from birth, both of them became submissive to the new order and followed willingly the newly established laws and ordinances enforced by the new rulers. Knowing who they were in secret and what they represented to the people they submitted themselves to the point of becoming slaves under the new law of retribution and repartition established by Spain. Under their new master they followed instructions and obeyed faithfully and with joy were baptized with foreign names and they would have continued like this into death, but their master committed a grave mistake - He tried to commit the sin of rape. They ran away and in hiding, under the darkness of the night he was made CARIBE and felt, this awful taste and this intense pain in the heart for the first time in his life and because he was trapped with no way to go he submitted to the evil that he felt within and declared WAR again.. The war that he and his braves orchestrated lasted for another 20 years until the King of Spain himself was obliged to offer the first peace treaty of the new world to him under Enriquillo terms in order to stop the bloodshed of his Spaniards people. The treaty was honored for a few years until they killed him, The Cacique was buried in his sacred grounds in the area of the country were he specified under his terms in the treaty. Of course, his tomb became a place of pilgrimage for our people until they neglected their contract, abounded their words sealed and signed by their Kings, desecrated his tumb and built a Catholic church on top of his bones. They did not learn from the past and Spanish blood started to inundate the land again until they discovered the perfect weapon to submit our rage and destroy our race...the biological weapon of decease used to genocide our people all over the Americas. Now you know why the sea surrounding our Islands is not called today the Taino sea but it acquired the name of the Caribbean Sea because of all the years of suffering by millions of people from both sides of the conflict shedding their blood-fighting courageously for a just and Godly cause... to protect the lives and future of our people in the continents. When our people finally realized that in reality under the disguise of evil came to our land the Great Cacique that all along we all have been waiting for attached to wood posts poring his divine love to all the believers we received peace. ...( cont. upon request at [e-mail]

[@cesarjulioquimbaya301]

Solo negocios momentaneos.poblaciones aisladas de las sociedades de alta gama

[@antoniogutierrezjr3175]

These are real puertoricans

[@accessdenied9105]

Are most not existence🤷🏼‍♀️🤔 my Arawakan Taino DNA of BORIKEN is still much alive and vibrant today Linda! Our blood line will tribe trough this Land Until eternity✍🏽🌞🌻 Mañana hacemos un Barbecue y todos comeros de la madre tierra✍🏽My Blood is not for sale🌝🌞💪🏾

[@containeduniverse]

Beautiful Hebrew children.

[@abcbee1308za]

Amen just beautiful children of God.

[@MrSivram28]

containeduniverse Hebrew? dude get out of here with your false beliefs

[@Boddah.]

They're not Hebrew Hebrewyou fucking dumbass, fuck off with that toxic semitic bullshit.

[@creativemomentsalandisland2552]

:*)

[@Unknownhumans45]

Great performance by the rokotaranagu but the tekina has explained the wrong narrative.

[@yasminer3288]

I was born in the U.S, of puertorrican parents I had my DNA test done and it came back that I have a 15% Native American (Taino) my DNA is mostly European 61% and 15% Native American 19% African and the rest is middle eastern 4% and European Jewish with 1%

[@yvonne27marie]

We is this that’s not event our culture dance

[@jessfigueroa1873]

Why are they called “Indians”

[@joan-mariacbrooks]

As much as people hated him, Fidel Castro protected a group of Taino people who lived in the mountains of Cuba, according to an article in one of the Native magazines. The Taino still live! She's deadass wrong.

[@pierreancelin8872]

Just a native american cliche performance. I don't where they quote these costumes and choregrafy. but the music is definetely not puerto rican, it is rather peruvian or bolivian or from Jujuy Province, A Yaravi, Huayno or Carnavalito like dance. THIS IS QUECHUA MUSIC NOT ARAWAK.

[@ThePaganSun]

The ancestors of the Taíno and Arawaks came from South America, specifically Venezuela. I'm Puerto Rican and I did the Ancestry.com DNA test and 10% of my Native American blood was generic but another 4%-5% was specifically from the Andes (so 15% indigenous blood in total). I was surprised! Until I realized that the ancestors of the Taíno and Arawaks came from South America and particularly, Venezuela.

[@PapiRaza]

Dominican Republic got plenty more Tainos and darker

[@anthonygarringer4659]

Most Puerto Ricans have at least 30% indigenous dna that originates from the Taino. So respectfully this woman does not know what she's talking about.

[@tonyrod4388]

TAINOS with Andean music? c'mon!

[@thetyrant2695]

I am curious on what this one is called I have heard of it before (anyone who knows what it’s called let me know so I can find it for myself

[@tonyrod4388]

@@thetyrant2695 It is called Areito.

[@thetyrant2695]

@@tonyrod4388 Well yes but not what it was the Andean music is what I was trying to find

[@al1665]

Christopher Columbus lied

[@BigReese1981]

History documents depicts Tainos as Black with corse hair what are these people.

[@danielleedwards7696]

Lol... Only 1 True Indian

[@polynesianwarrior2166]

They look Cambodian

[@jgarcia3731]

Sorry, but many of you are delusional. These children are not Tahínos; they are mixed with just about 15% Tahínos, and with SSA and Spanish. If you take a DNA test (23andme, or ancestry), most puerto ricans are between 12% and 15%. Some might score 20%, and rarely 22%. I read on Reddit the results of Puerto Ricans and most of PR scores 12% or 15% Tahíno. All the pure Tahínos got extinct centuries ago, pero dejaron descendencia. Estamos mesclados, pero con un chin de tahino pa que lo sepa. Also, that song sounds Andean from South America. Saludos.

[@frankfranko9023]

May the Puerto Rican people mix with the Taino 🦋to have the Taino n the Mestizo

[@josecaraballo6326]

frank franko fuck you

[@BananaTPie]

Wack

[@juliolondono1019]

estas. persona. que. hacen. este. vídeo. maltratan. a. los. verdaderos. primitivos. de. nuestra. america