The Native Americans who didn't die.

[istripador]

Yeah very peaceful ones, are they the ones who were cannibals and ate human flesh?!

Brazil natives were cannibals

[KidMulat]

Most of the native tribes in Brazil were semi-nomadic at the time of first contact with the europeans. Their methods of cultivation involved burning-and-slashing the rainforest, and they moved every once in a while, once the soil was depleted. The most important staple they had was mandioca (called tapioca in English I think), a plant that was (and still is) poisonous but that can be made edible through processes the natives invented.

Can you please STFU if you have no clue what you are talking about

http://www.athenapub.com/orellan1.htm

Francisco de Orellana was the first to come through the Amazonian Basin, he was in contact first with the various Amazonian chieftains and was literally swamped constantly by highly settled and populated people; disease made the tribes into rotating and and shifting farmers as ever subsequent explorer described them to be. Overall researchers are finding Orellana's once seemingly fanciful accounts as quite true as the research is showing much of the Amazonian rainforest was in food production.

[Dombra]

Most of them live on through self hating mestizos and triracials

[KidMulat]

Brazil natives were cannibals

They were but there were two different kinds of Cannabalism; one for foes and one for deceased loved family members

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploratio...balism_nsv.htm

[istripador]

Can you please STFU if you have no clue what you are talking about

http://www.athenapub.com/orellan1.htm

Francisco de Orellana was the first to come through the Amazonian Basin, he was in contact first with the various Amazonian chieftains and was literally swamped constantly by highly settled and populated people; disease made the tribes into rotating and and shifting farmers as ever subsequent explorer described them to be. Overall researchers are finding Orellana's once seemingly fanciful accounts as quite true as the research is showing much of the Amazonian rainforest was in food production.

natives of the Amazon is not the same as the native Brazil, most of them lived in Brazilian Highlands! not in the Amazon region!

You affirms a lot of things without any proof, and because this fanaticism by the natives of the Amazon?

[Tropico]

OMG. I have a Dominican friend who to me looks around 60/40 Euro/SSA respectively and her dad told me that she had the skin tone of a mestizo. I said "NO" and had a discussion with him about Dominicans and their mulatto ancestry and their very minor Amerindian but he said she was still Mestiza colored I was about to be like "EVEN so she doesn't look like she has any Native (even though her mother for SURE does) but I didn't. lol

My Dominican friend:

Her and her mom:

[RMuller]

No one posting their tribes?

Wow, I guess they must be embarrassed

Mexico has over 15-18 million Indigenas. But im not surprised that the Mexicans on this forum didn't post piks of Mexican amerindians.In Mexico they throw around the word 'indio' as a way to insult each other. Us Chicanos never do that.We have Aztec,Otomi etc pride.

There was Otomi's near the haciendas ranchos 300--400 years ago were my grandparents are from so we must have Otomi ancestry along with Aztec,Chichemeca etc .Otomi's still exist in central Mexico but have some Spanish blood to.

[Pedro Navajas]

Mexico has over 15-18 million Indigenas. But im not surprised that the Mexicans on this forum didn't post piks of Mexican amerindians.In Mexico they throw around the word 'indio' as a way to insult each other.

Actually the same happen all across Latin AMerica... Not exclusively in Mexico

Us Chicanos never do that.We have Aztec,Otomi etc pride.

Pus no les queda de otra manito

There was Otomi's near the haciendas ranchos 300--400 years ago were my grandparents are from so we must have Otomi ancestry along with Aztec,Chichemeca etc

Bla bla bla bla who gives a shit about your genetics.

Otomi's still exist in central Mexico but have some Spanish blood to.

LMAO typical chicano, saying they are part "Spanish" while in real life they look far away from looking Mediterranean.

[Tropico]

Taíno

The Taíno were seafaring indigenous peoples of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. They were one of the Arawak peoples of South America, and the Taíno language was a member of the Arawakan language family of northern South America. At the time of Columbus' arrival in 1492, there were five Taíno chiefdoms and territories on Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic), each led by a principal Cacique (chieftain), to whom tribute was paid.
Cuba, the largest island on the Antilles, was originally divided into 29 chiefdoms. Most of the native settlements later became the site of Spanish colonial cities retaining the original Taino names, for instance; Havana, Batabanó, Camagüey, Baracoa and Bayamo.
Puerto Rico also was divided into chiefdoms. As the hereditary head chief of Taíno tribes, the cacique was paid significant tribute. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the largest Taíno population centers may have contained over 3,000 people each.
The Taíno were historically enemies of the neighboring Carib tribes, another group with origins in South America, who lived principally in the Lesser Antilles.The relationship between the two groups has been the subject of much study. For much of the 15th century, the Taíno tribe was being driven to the northeast in the Caribbean (out of what is now South America) because of raids by the Carib. Women were taken as captives, resulting in many Carib women speaking Taíno.
The Spaniards, who first arrived in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola in 1492, and later in Puerto Rico, did not bring women in the first expeditions. They took Taíno women for their common-law wives, resulting in mestizo children.Sexual violence in Haiti with the Taíno women by the Spanish was also common. Scholars suggest there was substantial mestizaje (racial and cultural mixing) in Cuba, as well, and several Indian pueblos that survived into the 19th century.



The Taíno people, or Taíno culture, has been classified by some authorities as belonging to the Arawak, as they were descended from the same language family. The early ethnohistorian, Daniel Garrison Brinton, called these the "Island Arawak." The name was derived from the Arawakan word for cassava flour, a staple of their diet. The Arawakan language family is made up of languages that were present throughout the Caribbean, and much of Central and South America.

Spaniards and Taíno



Chief Agüeybana greeting Juan Ponce de León in Puerto Rico
Columbus and his crew, landing on an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, were the first Europeans to encounter the Taíno people. Columbus described the Tainos as a physically tall, well-proportioned people, with a noble and kind personality.
Columbus wrote:
"They traded with us and gave us everything they had, with good will...they took great delight in pleasing us..They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal...Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people...They love their neighbours as themselves, and they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are gentle and always laughing."

A 2002 study conducted in Puerto Rico suggests that over 61% of the population possess Amerindian mtDNA. Other studies indicate a wider range. Juan Carlos Martinez, a biology professor at the University of Puerto Rico who conducted his own mtDNA studies, says, "Our results suggest that our genetic inheritance of indigenous origin can't be very low and could be even higher than the inheritance from the other two races (Caucasoid and Negroid)." On average Puerto Ricans possess approximately 10-15% Native American MtDNA, most of it Taíno in origin; it is mixed into the genome in short pieces, consistent with a single short period of unions between the races several hundred years ago. Haplotypes A and C have been found, indicating more than Taíno Amerindian ancestry, as their ancestral group, the Yanomama, do not have haplotype A.

[afrotaino]

Yeah very peaceful ones, are they the ones who were cannibals and ate human flesh?!

No, were the carib, and they ate humans as part of a mistycal belief, they ate best warriors from other tribes
Taino people were diferent, they are peacefull and good persons