MY FATHERS GRANDFATHER LOOKED INDIAN STARIGHT HAIR WE WAS DARK BROWN LOOK LIKE A INDIAN BUT HES MOTHER WAS AFRO PUERTORICAN SO HE LOOKED INDIAN BUT HE WAS MIX SO LOOKS DONT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
OH LORD WE ARE MIX ALL OF US FROM THE BLACKEST TO THE BROWNES TO THE WHITES WE ALL ARE MIX WITH AFRICAN SPANISH INDIAN FRENCH AND MENY MORE. WHEN IS THIS BULLSHIT GONNA END.
Why is it that the moment someone claims Taino ancestry someone has to inform us of how White they or their families are? As if this would prove to the world that only Whites live in Puerto Rico today. The word Jibaro is it's self is a Taino word. Three out of the four of my grandparents were Jibaros, lived in Bohios and cooked on a Fogon, used a Coi to rock their babes to sleep and ate from a dita. This man has a Ph D. He knows whats he 's talking about.
As Corsicans and other Europeans came to PR they mixed with the Boricuas, no matter how Jibaros these people were or how Taina was their blood. Only the richer continued marrying within their race. They had properties, and the ability to move to other places like SA or back to Europe once the island went thru san Ciriaco. It's naive to say the rich went to Hawaii to cut sugar cane. It's a fact that most Jibaros who went to Hawaii had Taino blood, especially those from mountains in the southwest.
My grandmother’s mother was from Corsica, and her father was a Jibaro who had very black, straight hair. His face features skin color, like many Native Americans photos. He wasn't wearing a taparrabo, because he did not live in the 1500. He was aTaino living in the late 1800s and was the capataz or foreman of one of the coffee haciendas or plantations. He and many others in that area had the Taino blood and with pride. Their life changed once the Spaniards came to the island, not their blood!!!
That is why there are two areas named Indieras in that part of P.R. up to the present day. ManyTainos went there in the early to mid 1500s and by the time a large immigration of European started coming to those mountains in the mid 1850, they did not find an empty countryside!!! The reason they were called “Jibaros” as this man said in this interview was because “Jibaros” is a word that was used within some of the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos to call those who lived in the high mountains.
To those who keep on saying here that the first hawaian- puertoricans were mostly white I would like to say this. My great-grandparents were also from the regions between Maricao, Lares, Adjuntas and the mountains of Yauco... While I do have European last names and some of that DNR, I am also a Taina. Why??? Because centuries before the Europeans from Corsica, and from the Canary Islands ever touched Borinquen's soil, there was a good number of Tainos who moved to those very same mountains.
Very interesting. I saw another video about these PuertoRican Hawaiians & they maintained so much PR culture that in the Christmas holidays they played native Puerto Rican music & it was beautiful & rivaled even the most indiginous Puerto Rican musica Navidena. Awesome!! It's on youtube look it up.
What's sad about this is that these Hawaii Puerto Ricans were essentially hillbillies ("jibaros") from the central mountains of Puerto Rico & when they left PR to go to Hawaii they were barely 1st & 2nd generation descendants of Spanish, Mayorcan & Canary Island immigrants to Puerto Rico (Whites!).In this video they are represented as "Tainos".That's like taking Appalachian hillbillies (Scottish, Irish) & turning them into Mohawk Indians because you said so. Very sad, disrespectful &inaccurate.
I would have to agree that the jibaros were mostly of Spanish descendants. I am sure there was a mixture of the Tainos who had escaped way before, but essencially it was of Spanish ancestry. The music of the jibaro and the music of The Canary Islands is very very similar.
@viyau --- these are interesting comments considering that no studies have been done to verify your claim -- Jibaro as "White" is a part of the colonial mythology impressed upon the masses just like the alleged "Taino extinction"... The Taino could not remain as they were after the conquest and most in Puerto Rico were not slaves - they became part of a peasant - labor class most call Jibaro today... There is a lot of history in Puerto Rico that never sees the light of day!!! That is changing!
@Tainotv Well, none of us were around in those colonial times, I am assuming most were white, not saying pure white because that does not exist. There is taino blood, yes, but having blood from another race does not NOT white make you. That is like using the colonial belief that if you had one ounce of another race you are of the other race.
@viyau again interesting comments - I hear that one a lot when folks are not clear on their position - "None of us were around back then"... Perhaps we were not around but some of us have family that was and we remember what they said - for the rest fortunately some of the history is written - sometimes we have to blew the dust off and see it for what it is... Again, most of the folks with negative comments are simply uneducated on these subjects and it rocks their comfortable world.. Rock on!
@Tainotv Definately. I know I wasnt around then, but i try to stay informed and read history and explore. A lot of people just post things just because they can. I try to be responsible in what I say, to be fair. Be good!
@SebastianQuinsella - the only thing that is sad is that you pretend to know what your talking about - you do not know who was barely anything and that is a fact... What is the problem? What are you so afraid of? Is that since this version of history does not jive with yours you now are doubting what you see in the mirror? I tell you what - why don't you get some money together and fly me down for a debate with anyone you feel knows this subject - we can make another video - you game or lame?
Its Christopher Columbus you idiot. Not Cristofor Colombo. Even in italian it is spelled Cristoforo Colombo. So get educated you pinhead. Cristobal Colon is the Spanish translation. You must be one of those rock-headed italian spawned from blacks who think they're pure white mongoloid morons from Howard Beach. Retard.
ummm it's his accent... dummy to you He is doing his best not to break into the hawaii pidgin dialect. Who cares columbus didn't discover America he ran into it where it should have been open sea LOL
what an ingnorant ass. This man is one of the mosty untolerant persons i have heard. He hates christians esp catholics, he hates anybody who ever encroched on someone elses territory, the whole planet has encroched on someone , sometime. I think the KKK would like him, they hate everybody too
Well he can hate anyone he wants. I just found out who he is. Christians and their so called missionaries were the backbone of all these invasions and conquests throughout the world. Though am christian, i know these so called christians pillaged, killed "in the name of God".
Taino Indians were kidnapped by pineapple planters to be used as slaves? Why?So they could teach the planters how to do war dances around volcanoes?I feel sorry for the Hawaiian guy who has been fed a big plate of taino turds & told to swallow & smile.This is sad & very disrepsectful of the original agricultural workers & their histories and identities. And chief taino tutu is a laughing stock in the States & is just looking for more Tainos around the world. What next Tainos in Iceland?
listen you ass hole,Puerto Rican is NOT a race,NOR is it the same experience for EVERYONE of us 4MILLION on the island. If you ever get to leave your NYghetto,you will see that there are real BLACK, WHITE, ASIAN & even some (NOT THE MAJORITY) mixed people with some "Taino" ancestry. Unfortunately OUR history has been hijacked by NYghetto-rats who dare to tell us our history with fake peacock feathers sticking out of their ass & now call themselves "Tainos". My DOG is more Taino.
@BennoFletcherBorges - your comment contradicts itself... If you know that "some people in Boriken have some Taino ancestry then why try and knock the video which claims that Taino/indigenous/Indian descendants where among those taken to Hawaii in the 1800 from Puerto Rico? Remember the Puerto Rican flag was created in NY so your ghetto-rat comment reflects on the country as a whole... As for your dog - it probably is more Taino ---- than you!
no por quitarte nada,pero NINGUNOS de los puertorriquenos que se fueron para Hawaii se montaron en barcos con taparrabos,ni con sus nalgas por 'fuera.Lo que me duele TANTO,es que te han comido tu mente y este charlatan (nuyorican taino idiota)aqui esta dandote sobos pa' que tu caigas manzito en su falda.Mijo YO TENGO familiares que se fueron para Hawaii y ERAN y todavia SON Blancos.
De hecho,muchos eran decendientes de Canarios,Vascos y Gallegos que habian llegado a Puerto Rico hace poco antes de irse pa' Hawaii. Por favor dale un abrazo fuerte a tu historia VERDADERA y no a una fantasia criada postiza nativisita en los ghettos del "Brong" por acomplejados que no quieren ser negros, no pueden ser blancos y que mas le queda? Taino! Recueredete, que cuando el hombre pierde la verguenza, NADIE se la devuelve.
Y del "study" de los Tainos en Puerto Rico,dejame decirte algo. El payaso que hizo ese "study" es un hipocrita racista que se ve a lo lejo. El le cojio "DNA" a unos que "parecian" Taino (familiares todos). Entonces cojio este "sample" de MENOS de .00001% del poblacion de la isla y dijo que como resultado 69% de la isla son Tainos. ESO NO ES "research". De que hay gente en PR que tienen en parte un poco del Taino, no hay duda pero es IMPOSIBLE que la mayoria sean Tainos.
@portacoelhi Qué ignorancia. Está triste que todavía gentes como tu no saben su propia historia… son ciego por el racismo. Para educarte --- no tiene que usar un ' taparrabo' para ser Taino.
More fake taino neo-history?The reality is that most of the PuertoRican workers that went to Hawaii were WHITES from the interior of Puerto Rico,where ANY historian knows has the biggest concentration of White settlers on the Island since the1850s.Yes,they were agricultural workers & YES, they were poor,but that does not turn them into Taino Indians.They are turning in their graves watching these 2 idiots giving them new FAKE identities. Disgraceful junk history.What next? Ricans from Atlantis?
baya,another fact that is conveniently omitted in this taino fantasy is that in El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española , el "jíbaro" se define como: "perteneciente o relativo al campesino de ascendencia española, generalmente en las regiones montañosas de la isla". And yet with this historical fact as background, these 2 "Tainos" change the racial background of these WHITE Puerto Rican "hillbillys" into Taino Indians.Shameful and that is why the "taino" movement is laughed at.
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@BennoFletcherBorges Wow, another intelligent actually promoting the history of the colonizer... I mean you want us to take your view serious and you post something from the "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española" as if that is not a biased version of history? As I said if there is ANY ONE here that is so sure of their facts get some money together and fly us to your local college to have a real debate on the issue in English or Spanish...
@Tainotv...dear Taino Tranny,I used "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" because it is an historically reliable source for the entomology of words used in the Spanish-speaking world. I tried to find the Taino dictionary but like so much of Neo-Taino"facts"today it is little more than nuyorican grafittisprayed on the side of dumpsters in "duh" So.Bronx.However,I take my research from more informed sources.Good luck with your Taino reserach on the Cross-Town Shuttle.Oportunista sucio.
@bayamonkey -- no one is saying that all Jibaros were Taino descendants... And that is why you have to say "most were whites"... "Most" does not mean "all" and the oral tradition of many of these families acknowledged their Indian ancestry... What you fail to accept is an ongoing indigenous reality on the island of Boriken that has mixed over the centuries.... . If you think "real Indians" are only so-called pure blooded individuals then you need to step out of the dark ages...
@bayamonkey interesting comment - neo-Taino history --- sounds like you have already an opinion however what you don't have is any facts... The only junk history being present is what people like you are hoping the youth will keep swallowing but that is a hope long gone as folks are being to see the truth for what is is and the peddles of colonial history for what they are...
murggik, your dumb! Because hawaiians are NOT half Japanese Half Amerindin. First of all We are HAWAIIAN(Polynesian). And second, Amerindians refer to those native ppl of the Americas! I know, Im Half Hawaiian, Boricua, and Portuguesa!
Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) stupid! Because of him we are going to distroy the planet, because of him Puerto Rican, Cubans, Dominicans, Caribe, Jamaican and much more have different identities. We The Taino People Are Still Here to reclaim what is naturally our the New World.
Tau Daitiaos (Hello Friends)We the TAINO People who discovered cristobal Colon in 1492 are still here.Taino ti tai ku (Good spirits be with you goodbye)
Imagine being a jibaro with a family in P.R. and never being able to return to the island. How devastating.
Just like African slaves who passed down their customs/beliefs generation to generation so all would remember, the old generation of boricuas in Hawaii have done the same. Respect this. Saludos hermanos y que Dios te bendiga y acompane.
Any P.R. who says anything negative should be ashame of themselves. As a Boricua , I thank them for helping our people when no one would.Remember we were not U.S. citizens at the time.We had no rights.They had no money to return home. Some were so humbled by the Hawaiians kindness that they adapted/changed there names to sound Hawaiian.
He is an ancestor of the Puerto Rican sugar cane cutters that were lured to Hawaii to cut sugar cane before we U.S. citizens and once the owners exploited them they got them on a boat and told them to get lost. Only hawaii locals took compassion and took them back in. This is included in the state school educational curriculum and is taught as part of Hawaii history.
Taino ti (good spirits be with you) thank you for keeping our true identity alive as Tainos thats who we really are. not the identity as (Puerto Ricans)the name given to us by the invader Cristobal Colon who we the Tainos discovered in 1492. It time for the Taino Nation to rais and reclaim what is naturally ours
Depends on where you look. Since they were all over the place, parts of the culture are guaranteed to be slightly different from other parts. I'm part Puerto Rican Taino, but if I were somewhere else, it might be slightly different.
MY FATHERS GRANDFATHER LOOKED INDIAN STARIGHT HAIR WE WAS DARK BROWN LOOK LIKE A INDIAN BUT HES MOTHER WAS AFRO PUERTORICAN SO HE LOOKED INDIAN BUT HE WAS MIX SO LOOKS DONT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
puertoricanafro 7 months ago
OH LORD WE ARE MIX ALL OF US FROM THE BLACKEST TO THE BROWNES TO THE WHITES WE ALL ARE MIX WITH AFRICAN SPANISH INDIAN FRENCH AND MENY MORE. WHEN IS THIS BULLSHIT GONNA END.
puertoricanafro 7 months ago
Why is it that the moment someone claims Taino ancestry someone has to inform us of how White they or their families are? As if this would prove to the world that only Whites live in Puerto Rico today. The word Jibaro is it's self is a Taino word. Three out of the four of my grandparents were Jibaros, lived in Bohios and cooked on a Fogon, used a Coi to rock their babes to sleep and ate from a dita. This man has a Ph D. He knows whats he 's talking about.
Domingo12754 10 months ago
As Corsicans and other Europeans came to PR they mixed with the Boricuas, no matter how Jibaros these people were or how Taina was their blood. Only the richer continued marrying within their race. They had properties, and the ability to move to other places like SA or back to Europe once the island went thru san Ciriaco. It's naive to say the rich went to Hawaii to cut sugar cane. It's a fact that most Jibaros who went to Hawaii had Taino blood, especially those from mountains in the southwest.
Maganel1 11 months ago
My grandmother’s mother was from Corsica, and her father was a Jibaro who had very black, straight hair. His face features skin color, like many Native Americans photos. He wasn't wearing a taparrabo, because he did not live in the 1500. He was aTaino living in the late 1800s and was the capataz or foreman of one of the coffee haciendas or plantations. He and many others in that area had the Taino blood and with pride. Their life changed once the Spaniards came to the island, not their blood!!!
Maganel1 11 months ago
That is why there are two areas named Indieras in that part of P.R. up to the present day. ManyTainos went there in the early to mid 1500s and by the time a large immigration of European started coming to those mountains in the mid 1850, they did not find an empty countryside!!! The reason they were called “Jibaros” as this man said in this interview was because “Jibaros” is a word that was used within some of the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos to call those who lived in the high mountains.
Maganel1 11 months ago
To those who keep on saying here that the first hawaian- puertoricans were mostly white I would like to say this. My great-grandparents were also from the regions between Maricao, Lares, Adjuntas and the mountains of Yauco... While I do have European last names and some of that DNR, I am also a Taina. Why??? Because centuries before the Europeans from Corsica, and from the Canary Islands ever touched Borinquen's soil, there was a good number of Tainos who moved to those very same mountains.
Maganel1 11 months ago
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voodoomoocow 1 year ago
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voodoomoocow 1 year ago
Very interesting. I saw another video about these PuertoRican Hawaiians & they maintained so much PR culture that in the Christmas holidays they played native Puerto Rican music & it was beautiful & rivaled even the most indiginous Puerto Rican musica Navidena. Awesome!! It's on youtube look it up.
imweezel 2 years ago 3
What's sad about this is that these Hawaii Puerto Ricans were essentially hillbillies ("jibaros") from the central mountains of Puerto Rico & when they left PR to go to Hawaii they were barely 1st & 2nd generation descendants of Spanish, Mayorcan & Canary Island immigrants to Puerto Rico (Whites!).In this video they are represented as "Tainos".That's like taking Appalachian hillbillies (Scottish, Irish) & turning them into Mohawk Indians because you said so. Very sad, disrespectful &inaccurate.
SebastianQuinsella 2 years ago 7
I would have to agree that the jibaros were mostly of Spanish descendants. I am sure there was a mixture of the Tainos who had escaped way before, but essencially it was of Spanish ancestry. The music of the jibaro and the music of The Canary Islands is very very similar.
viyau 2 years ago
@viyau --- these are interesting comments considering that no studies have been done to verify your claim -- Jibaro as "White" is a part of the colonial mythology impressed upon the masses just like the alleged "Taino extinction"... The Taino could not remain as they were after the conquest and most in Puerto Rico were not slaves - they became part of a peasant - labor class most call Jibaro today... There is a lot of history in Puerto Rico that never sees the light of day!!! That is changing!
Tainotv 1 year ago
@Tainotv Well, none of us were around in those colonial times, I am assuming most were white, not saying pure white because that does not exist. There is taino blood, yes, but having blood from another race does not NOT white make you. That is like using the colonial belief that if you had one ounce of another race you are of the other race.
viyau 1 year ago
@viyau again interesting comments - I hear that one a lot when folks are not clear on their position - "None of us were around back then"... Perhaps we were not around but some of us have family that was and we remember what they said - for the rest fortunately some of the history is written - sometimes we have to blew the dust off and see it for what it is... Again, most of the folks with negative comments are simply uneducated on these subjects and it rocks their comfortable world.. Rock on!
Tainotv 1 year ago
@Tainotv Definately. I know I wasnt around then, but i try to stay informed and read history and explore. A lot of people just post things just because they can. I try to be responsible in what I say, to be fair. Be good!
viyau 1 year ago
@SebastianQuinsella - the only thing that is sad is that you pretend to know what your talking about - you do not know who was barely anything and that is a fact... What is the problem? What are you so afraid of? Is that since this version of history does not jive with yours you now are doubting what you see in the mirror? I tell you what - why don't you get some money together and fly me down for a debate with anyone you feel knows this subject - we can make another video - you game or lame?
Tainotv 1 year ago
Its Christopher Columbus you idiot. Not Cristofor Colombo. Even in italian it is spelled Cristoforo Colombo. So get educated you pinhead. Cristobal Colon is the Spanish translation. You must be one of those rock-headed italian spawned from blacks who think they're pure white mongoloid morons from Howard Beach. Retard.
imweezel 2 years ago
ummm it's his accent... dummy to you He is doing his best not to break into the hawaii pidgin dialect. Who cares columbus didn't discover America he ran into it where it should have been open sea LOL
nikoanne 2 years ago
Much respect to taino in hawai'i and all polynesian natives, I'm rican with Taino native in my blood, yukahu cacona uara ke tai ku waitiau.
braveseaeagle 2 years ago
he's a boricua from hawaii?
get these idiots a map of the world PLEASE! Call Don Ho maybe he can help these morons
SebastianQuinsella 2 years ago 11
what an ingnorant ass. This man is one of the mosty untolerant persons i have heard. He hates christians esp catholics, he hates anybody who ever encroched on someone elses territory, the whole planet has encroched on someone , sometime. I think the KKK would like him, they hate everybody too
coolbreezetoo 2 years ago 12
Well he can hate anyone he wants. I just found out who he is. Christians and their so called missionaries were the backbone of all these invasions and conquests throughout the world. Though am christian, i know these so called christians pillaged, killed "in the name of God".
viyau 2 years ago
Wow,
Taino Indians were kidnapped by pineapple planters to be used as slaves? Why?So they could teach the planters how to do war dances around volcanoes?I feel sorry for the Hawaiian guy who has been fed a big plate of taino turds & told to swallow & smile.This is sad & very disrepsectful of the original agricultural workers & their histories and identities. And chief taino tutu is a laughing stock in the States & is just looking for more Tainos around the world. What next Tainos in Iceland?
MerinoMedina 2 years ago 25
@MerinoMedina --- learn your history Medina - you would be surprised what is out there.
Tainotv 1 year ago
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hellzkitchenyc 2 years ago
hellzkitty,
listen you ass hole,Puerto Rican is NOT a race,NOR is it the same experience for EVERYONE of us 4MILLION on the island. If you ever get to leave your NYghetto,you will see that there are real BLACK, WHITE, ASIAN & even some (NOT THE MAJORITY) mixed people with some "Taino" ancestry. Unfortunately OUR history has been hijacked by NYghetto-rats who dare to tell us our history with fake peacock feathers sticking out of their ass & now call themselves "Tainos". My DOG is more Taino.
BennoFletcherBorges 2 years ago 13
@BennoFletcherBorges - your comment contradicts itself... If you know that "some people in Boriken have some Taino ancestry then why try and knock the video which claims that Taino/indigenous/Indian descendants where among those taken to Hawaii in the 1800 from Puerto Rico? Remember the Puerto Rican flag was created in NY so your ghetto-rat comment reflects on the country as a whole... As for your dog - it probably is more Taino ---- than you!
Tainotv 1 year ago
Mira Tony,(1)
no por quitarte nada,pero NINGUNOS de los puertorriquenos que se fueron para Hawaii se montaron en barcos con taparrabos,ni con sus nalgas por 'fuera.Lo que me duele TANTO,es que te han comido tu mente y este charlatan (nuyorican taino idiota)aqui esta dandote sobos pa' que tu caigas manzito en su falda.Mijo YO TENGO familiares que se fueron para Hawaii y ERAN y todavia SON Blancos.
portacoelhi 2 years ago 37
Tony,(2)
De hecho,muchos eran decendientes de Canarios,Vascos y Gallegos que habian llegado a Puerto Rico hace poco antes de irse pa' Hawaii. Por favor dale un abrazo fuerte a tu historia VERDADERA y no a una fantasia criada postiza nativisita en los ghettos del "Brong" por acomplejados que no quieren ser negros, no pueden ser blancos y que mas le queda? Taino! Recueredete, que cuando el hombre pierde la verguenza, NADIE se la devuelve.
portacoelhi 2 years ago 25
Tony,(3)
Y del "study" de los Tainos en Puerto Rico,dejame decirte algo. El payaso que hizo ese "study" es un hipocrita racista que se ve a lo lejo. El le cojio "DNA" a unos que "parecian" Taino (familiares todos). Entonces cojio este "sample" de MENOS de .00001% del poblacion de la isla y dijo que como resultado 69% de la isla son Tainos. ESO NO ES "research". De que hay gente en PR que tienen en parte un poco del Taino, no hay duda pero es IMPOSIBLE que la mayoria sean Tainos.
portacoelhi 2 years ago 28
@portacoelhi Qué ignorancia. Está triste que todavía gentes como tu no saben su propia historia… son ciego por el racismo. Para educarte --- no tiene que usar un ' taparrabo' para ser Taino.
Tainotv 1 year ago
More fake taino neo-history?The reality is that most of the PuertoRican workers that went to Hawaii were WHITES from the interior of Puerto Rico,where ANY historian knows has the biggest concentration of White settlers on the Island since the1850s.Yes,they were agricultural workers & YES, they were poor,but that does not turn them into Taino Indians.They are turning in their graves watching these 2 idiots giving them new FAKE identities. Disgraceful junk history.What next? Ricans from Atlantis?
bayamonkey 2 years ago 33
baya,another fact that is conveniently omitted in this taino fantasy is that in El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española , el "jíbaro" se define como: "perteneciente o relativo al campesino de ascendencia española, generalmente en las regiones montañosas de la isla". And yet with this historical fact as background, these 2 "Tainos" change the racial background of these WHITE Puerto Rican "hillbillys" into Taino Indians.Shameful and that is why the "taino" movement is laughed at.
BennoFletcherBorges 2 years ago 18
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@BennoFletcherBorges Wow, another intelligent actually promoting the history of the colonizer... I mean you want us to take your view serious and you post something from the "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española" as if that is not a biased version of history? As I said if there is ANY ONE here that is so sure of their facts get some money together and fly us to your local college to have a real debate on the issue in English or Spanish...
Tainotv 1 year ago
@Tainotv...dear Taino Tranny,I used "El Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola" because it is an historically reliable source for the entomology of words used in the Spanish-speaking world. I tried to find the Taino dictionary but like so much of Neo-Taino"facts"today it is little more than nuyorican grafittisprayed on the side of dumpsters in "duh" So.Bronx.However,I take my research from more informed sources.Good luck with your Taino reserach on the Cross-Town Shuttle.Oportunista sucio.
BennoFletcherBorges 1 year ago 4
@bayamonkey -- no one is saying that all Jibaros were Taino descendants... And that is why you have to say "most were whites"... "Most" does not mean "all" and the oral tradition of many of these families acknowledged their Indian ancestry... What you fail to accept is an ongoing indigenous reality on the island of Boriken that has mixed over the centuries.... . If you think "real Indians" are only so-called pure blooded individuals then you need to step out of the dark ages...
Tainotv 1 year ago
@bayamonkey interesting comment - neo-Taino history --- sounds like you have already an opinion however what you don't have is any facts... The only junk history being present is what people like you are hoping the youth will keep swallowing but that is a hope long gone as folks are being to see the truth for what is is and the peddles of colonial history for what they are...
Tainotv 1 year ago
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why celebrate christpher columbus day when he came to our island to steal our gold and kill our pelople, the tainos.
elmizmopr 3 years ago
Mahalos for the post...PR#1
hawrican 3 years ago
murggik, your dumb! Because hawaiians are NOT half Japanese Half Amerindin. First of all We are HAWAIIAN(Polynesian). And second, Amerindians refer to those native ppl of the Americas! I know, Im Half Hawaiian, Boricua, and Portuguesa!
mixedpapii 3 years ago 4
Boricua is a person from Borinken, now Puerto Rico.
alexjaponte 3 years ago 6
huh?
BennoFletcherBorges 2 years ago
Cristobal Colon (Christopher Columbus) stupid! Because of him we are going to distroy the planet, because of him Puerto Rican, Cubans, Dominicans, Caribe, Jamaican and much more have different identities. We The Taino People Are Still Here to reclaim what is naturally our the New World.
Tainocoamo 3 years ago
Tau Daitiaos (Hello Friends)We the TAINO People who discovered cristobal Colon in 1492 are still here.Taino ti tai ku (Good spirits be with you goodbye)
Tainocoamo 3 years ago
Cuidado Taino... que no vayas a tener mas de mulato que otra cosa...
Cachaito 3 years ago 4
Sorry the title on youtube is:Lucecita Benítez- Soy de una raza pura
yoli600 3 years ago
There are all kinds of Hawaiians with different backgrounds like there are all kinds of Americans in the U.S. mainland.
yoli600 3 years ago
Imagine being a jibaro with a family in P.R. and never being able to return to the island. How devastating.
Just like African slaves who passed down their customs/beliefs generation to generation so all would remember, the old generation of boricuas in Hawaii have done the same. Respect this. Saludos hermanos y que Dios te bendiga y acompane.
yoli600 3 years ago
Any P.R. who says anything negative should be ashame of themselves. As a Boricua , I thank them for helping our people when no one would.Remember we were not U.S. citizens at the time.We had no rights.They had no money to return home. Some were so humbled by the Hawaiians kindness that they adapted/changed there names to sound Hawaiian.
yoli600 3 years ago
He is an ancestor of the Puerto Rican sugar cane cutters that were lured to Hawaii to cut sugar cane before we U.S. citizens and once the owners exploited them they got them on a boat and told them to get lost. Only hawaii locals took compassion and took them back in. This is included in the state school educational curriculum and is taught as part of Hawaii history.
yoli600 3 years ago
Taino ti (good spirits be with you) thank you for keeping our true identity alive as Tainos thats who we really are. not the identity as (Puerto Ricans)the name given to us by the invader Cristobal Colon who we the Tainos discovered in 1492. It time for the Taino Nation to rais and reclaim what is naturally ours
Tainocoamo 3 years ago
Hello read above. Many Puerto Ricans do not know this part of our history.
yoli600 3 years ago
buen video arriba boricuas:)
yzon33 4 years ago
Yeah I just thought Taino were from Puero Rico,I knew my people travelled but man now I can go to Hawaii and be like we were here to
Dudex58 4 years ago
Nah, dude, they originated from all over the place.
I'm part Taino myself.
lillylivers 3 years ago
Cool Alright.I wish to know more of our culture but it is limited,thanks to the dwestruction of our civiliztion do to Spanish conquest.
Dudex58 3 years ago
Depends on where you look. Since they were all over the place, parts of the culture are guaranteed to be slightly different from other parts. I'm part Puerto Rican Taino, but if I were somewhere else, it might be slightly different.
lillylivers 3 years ago
Be proud!
yoli600 3 years ago
dudex58, you can also go to disneyland and meet "real" dinosaurs and talking sharks
SebastianQuinsella 2 years ago 8
This is a very informative video, thank you for posting it.
Jennifernabors 4 years ago