61% of puerto ricans have traced taino dna. here is the thing.ecognize the existing members as an active tribe because the percentage of dna in their blood is not high enough to qualify. at least acknowledgment. what chance do the taino people have of getting their ancestral lands? >> we fought really hard around the issue of the privatization of taino because we understood very clearly that it was a test . let me calm down a second. this illegal that has been imposed here by the united states would have decided to sell it off. our sacred sites are not for sale. >> strong language is a sentiment shared by many of the puerto ricans on the island as well. they make you feel as if politics has put taino at risk of being developed for commercial use. for decades, the people of puerto rico have taken their fight around the world asking for help from various organizations including the u.n. and while their voices have been heard, still no formal decisions have been made. so their hope is to be recognized as an official tribe. but how do you validate yo

they would take the steel that they had learned to to produce and take one of the taino indians and thesteel soot cut them in right down the middle. these people who were five three cut them right down the middle, good tested. the same thing in mexico. and yet they admired the architectural perfectionism of the aztecs who had built a city on a lake and who already were already taking tumors out of the head head. taking cataracts out of the eyes. talking about a people who are much farther, farther advanced than you would think. but somehow we've lost this story in the same way. lost the story about ghana, mali, the. it's amazing when you begin to read what you feel now what happens once you read and assimilate the beauty of negritude the beauty of being an indigenous person. you know what happens? you either get angry or you commit suicide. i had to be careful. i had to be careful. i wanted to kill as many as i could. let's let's be honest. the history of this country, particularly manifest destiny the trail of tears. the long and all of that. and we must not forget asian-american broth