Having seen a few pics of yours, I fully concur with your prediction. You look like the average person in La Sierra, methinks.
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Dominican's DNA proves Taino natives are not extinct
Having seen a few pics of yours, I fully concur with your prediction. You look like the average person in La Sierra, methinks.
All my family in both sides are from Moca, but per my grand dad the first settlement of the family Taveras more than a hundred years ago was in a small comunity between Baitoa and Janico in La Sierra as you stated.
In the family of my Dad from Moca too I have a very direct European descendancy, four generation of French and Spaniard as well. Arnaud, Morin & Feliu...
JJ
The spreadsheet here show dominicans with averages from 4% to ~12% Native American
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...lWbg2MtEwhWJrcbc4sRnvpkUquU/edit?pli=1#gid=70
Apparently they are able to detect not just if a person has indigenous DNA, but also the geographical place where that DNA was the most abundant. I guess the old belief that Tainos from DR couldn't be genetically distinguished from Tainos from Puerto Rico or Tainos from Cuba or Tainos from Jamaica is turning out to be just that, a belief.
Today I got an email from 23andme saying that they updated my profile with more detailed geographical origins. What a surprise when Dominican Republic pops up in the Native American segment.
Despite they are now able to detect origins in 150 countries and territories, my profile registers just two countries, the other one is Spain, of course.
Today I got an email from 23andme saying that they updated my profile with more detailed geographical origins. What a surprise when Dominican Republic pops up in the Native American segment.
Despite they are now able to detect origins in 150 countries and territories, my profile registers just two countries, the other one is Spain, of course.
Dominicans are very proud of Thier Taino Dna. You see signs of this all around the Country. No Haitian Dna is another story....
The behaviour of many current world leaders more or less confirms what your saying! Seriously, every human walking the earth today can trace their ancestory back to three areas where we first evolved from the apes, expanded, and migrated around the world. The African plains, the Indus region of India, and Asia. These areas produced the first true aboriginals according to current anthropological research. We are all brothers and sisters genetically.
The DR history of aboriginal recognition and rights is similar to ours in Canada. A history of non recognition, exploitation, and subtle and not so subtle cultural genocide. I have aboriginal ancestry, I have my status, and I’m on the Federal Indian Register. When I was a child growing up in my province, the government told us Indians didn’t exit here. The Catholic clergy and the nuns who taught us refused to acknowledge our aboriginal ties. They said there was a stigma attached to being an Indian. A heathen from their perspective. The past Federal Conservative government under Steven Harper finally struck a deal to recognize us as a landless band with non reserve status.
I’ve toured the La Isabella historic site a few times with friends I brought there to give them a sense of DR history. Aboriginals are included in the history of the site despite years of oppression. The truth is out there.
Growing up in the country side I head all of the above words plus others which I later found out were also Taino in origin. For example the following words are often used in the campos: "Jaida" is Taino for hills, "Jojoto" is used when someone or something is too pale, plus replacing the "h" for "j" as in "Joimiga" instead of "Hormiga" is of Taini origin, and lastly I remember my mom telling e to call my dad "Taita" when I was a kid, and I bet this also has Taino origin.
There are also families like mine were the Taina DNA is equal or greater to the African DNA, so I often laugh when people say Taino DNA/Heritage is non-existing in DR.
Apparently they are able to detect not just if a person has indigenous DNA, but also the geographical place where that DNA was the most abundant. I guess the old belief that Tainos from DR couldn't be genetically distinguished from Tainos from Puerto Rico or Tainos from Cuba or Tainos from Jamaica is turning out to be just that, a belief.
Today I got an email from 23andme saying that they updated my profile with more detailed geographical origins. What a surprise when Dominican Republic pops up in the Native American segment.
Despite they are now able to detect origins in 150 countries and territories, my profile registers just two countries, the other one is Spain, of course.
Click on "see all tested populations" to see which countries you get the most matches from. Outside DR, I get the most matches from Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and PR, in that order. In Europe I get most matches from Portugal and Spain.
http://dgmweb.net/Ancillary/OnE/NumberAncestors.html
This link will show you the number of grandparents in a given generation and the cumulative total. Of course, the numbers collapse with cousin breeding. Much more common than most people realize.
This link will show you the number of grandparents in a given generation and the cumulative total. Of course, the numbers collapse with cousin breeding. Much more common than most people realize.
Truth be told their heritage is Dominican and has been for a long time. They created their own culture.