Mi gente… el taino vive… en TI y en MI.
Lean el siguiente artículo para que sepan por qué es digo esto (les advierto, es en inglés):
THE TAINO RACE OF AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLE IS FAR FROM EXTINCT.
Dr. Juan Martinez Cruzado, a geneticist from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez designed an island-wide DNA survey, The study funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, shows that 61 percent of all Puerto Ricans have Amerindian mitochondrial DNA, 27 percent have African and 12 percent Caucasian. (Nuclear DNA, or the genetic material present in a gene’s nucleus, is inherited in equal parts from one’s father and mother. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from one’s mother and does not change or blend with other materials over time.)
In other words a majority of Puerto Ricans have Taino blood. “Our study showed there was assimilation,” Martinez Cruzado explained, “but the people were not extinguished.
“The people were assimilated into a new colonial order and became mixed. Tthat’s what Puerto Ricans are: Indians mixed with Africans and Spaniards,” he asserted.
“It is clear that the influence of Taino culture was very strong up to about 200 years ago. If we could conduct this same study on the Puerto Ricans from those times, the figure would show that 80 percent of the people had Indian heritage.”
Another historical moment that should receive more attention involves the story of a group of Tainos who, after 200 years of absence from official head-counts, appeared in a military census from the 1790s. In this episode, a colonial military census noted that all of a sudden there were 2,000 Indians living in a northwestern mountain region. “These were Indians who the Spanish had placed on the tiny island of Mona (just off the western coast of Puerto Rico) who survived in isolation and then were brought over,” Martinez Cruzado said.
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