Lautaro previously said:

I have two questions for you, mr. Baracutei:

Is your team planning to expand the Taino DNA investigations to cover the whole island? Is it true what some historians say about the chieftain Enriquillo being a sellout and not the liberator of our people that the traditional mythos usually portrays?

Baracutei previously said:



Dear Lautaro,
There are no immediate plans at the moment for further DNA studies. Both the y-chromosone and Nuclear DNA will have to wait until interested parties and funding become available.

As for Enriquillo, I personally believe he has receieved very bad rap, especially among some Afro-centrics. Enriquillos main concern was to protect his people. This led him to a 15 year war with the Spanish. Having fought them to a standstill and evetually being "granted" his peoples freedom, harboring runaway slaves would have been detremental to the peace he and his people recieved.
I certainly can understand why someone would judge him based on his returning African slaves to the Spanish. But if it were the other way around would the Africans harbor Indians even though it may cost them their new found freedom. These matters are very complicated. On the one hand Enriquillo certainly had Africans or Afro-Taino people amongst his people and where considered kin.

About 5 years (my timeline may be off) after the peace was made between Enriquillo and the Spanish, a group of African slaves supposedly headed by Lemba attacked one of Enriquillos village and killed about 500 people Indians and Negroes included. Considering that Enriquillo had been dead for a few years. This attack probably had more to do with bride capture than revenge for Enriquillos actions pertaining to African slaves.
It is a known fact that for every three African males that made the journey from Africa to the Americas only one African female survived. Hence African maroons not only needed Indians to help them survive in the Mountains, forests etc but they also needed women.

Murcio was a Cacike who lasted 25 years fighting the Spanish. He never surrenderd and was given four villages in the Cibao. Another fascinating story............

kmnupe previously said:




The Italians would have a fit!

cibaeño75 previously said:

I have a question for you Baracutei. Lately there's been much talk about the Mayan doomsay calendar and prophecies as well as on the legends that the Aztecs had concerning the end of what they termed the "fifth" (maybe it was fourth) world, supposedly the current time we're living in, and also the Hopi legends concerning the same thing. My question is this: What legends that you are aware of did the tainos have concerning the end of time or the last days if you will?

USADR previously said:

Somebody should test bachatero Andy Andy and entertainment personality El Pacha. Those two guys have to have something going on in their ancestral genetics. An Argentine comedic guest even called El Pacha 'El Mestizo'.

Manhattanite previously said:

Baracutei one o the buttons above the text box allows you to enter the URL of the images if you have already hosted the somewhere. It would be very nice to have a look, hope you can find a moment to post them for us!