The Guanches: Original people of Tenerife
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- In this episode, we take a closer look at the Guanches. These people are believed to be the the first settlers of Tenerife. Their history is fascinating! I have visited multiple sites all over Tenerife to try to understand a bit more about them.
(Recorded throughout 2022)
I’m of isleño descent myself. My ancestors left the island of Tenerife and settled in (Valenzuela) Dans La Fourche Parish, Louisiana in 1779. They would later settle in Victoria, Tx
Cool! You have great ancestors!
Great video! I’m Berber and love our Guanches cousins
Hello cousin
@@burninglight whatsup cousin
Great to hear! The history of the Guanches is fascinating!
Guanches died out
@@Revitalization4241 pure Guanches did but they have descendants
Very nice content, big like! Thank you for sharing ❤
Your videos are great for preparation of a Tenerife visit. Thank you for the efforts!
Thanks!!
Saludos desde la tribu Chaoui Amazigh, descendientes del rey Masinissa, Axel y Dehia, al este de Argelia, a los guanches, los amazighs de Canarias, nuestros hermanos de sangre y cultura.
Beautiful!
I am Isleños of Louisiana… and although I am Hispanic, some Guanches DNA was discovered in my Genome… evidently my two main Canarian ancestors were a Spaniard and a Guanches 😂❤
Wow!
Contrary to what many say the Spaniards never had colonies, but provinces that were given the same treatment as the Spaniards on the mainland...They mixed with the natives...Proof of it is the Dna carried by many islanders...There is a lot of disinformation about Spain and their provinces, NOT COLONIES...England had colonies, and the Dutch, French, Portuguese and others...Spain built the first three universities in the Americas almost 100 years before the first one in the USA, Havard in 1636...(…established by the Spaniards: the University of Santo Domingo (1538) in what is now the Dominican Republic and the University of Michoacán (1539) in Mexico.and in Lima, Perú)... and there were four more before the one in the USA...from 1551 to 1586 in Bolivia, another in Santo Domingo, Colombia, Ecuador, ...The Portuguese did not build any universities until 1912 and it was only one in Paraná...
Cariño disculpa pero desgraciadamente seguimos siendo colonia...y en cuanto a la mezcla de adn....a las niñas, niños, mujeres y hombres guanches eran llevados a la península y los vendían como esclavos. Un saludo desde Tenerife.
@@amparoalvarez9001uh, I'm mixed Yaqui, O’odham, Nahua, Swahili, Basque, Canarian, and Indo-European (including Spanish). I can assure you that the Spaniards had COLONIES, and no, the inhabitants therein were not treated the same as the PENINSULARES. Let alone those who were Brown or Black, always relegated to the bottom of the caste system. Yes, caste system.
The Spaniards got into my DNA via rape and colonialism and a sense of racial superiority/privilege, just like the Dutch, English, and French. It's a “white” thing, predominantly.
As a “mestizo” or “pardo” I can tell you my European ancestors were savage monsters compared to my non-Indo-European ancestors. Just a fact.
Fact.
@@militantlymarginal You are only repeating the lies that Anglosaxons or protestants invented against Spain...True historians are telling a new history...
Great video!!
Thanks!!
I am 78% from Spain. I just found documentation of my paternal maternal ancestor lineage were from this island (1500s) My ethnicity has 1% North African. I now must add the Berbers in my heritage. I know little and will study love Genealogy
I’m of descent and they’re two ethnicities to these ancestors. Mine is the family of Ortiz who was enslaved and brought to America
Emporer, how do you know this, did you attain documentation? If so where from?
@@conquista2923 I sure do and I don’t think where I got my information from is really relevant to anyone else as your families wouldn’t be relevant to mine. But it is documented and dna confirmed.
Unknown history lesson of Spain the exterminators
Thanks for Sharing
Thanks!
B.S. Spanish were not exterminators...The British were the biggest exterminators everywhere they went they left no one...In America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and on and on...The Spanish did not colonized, they created cities, shared their culture, mixed with the people...They mixed with the Guanches...Many in the islands have their dna...The Guanches died of the diseases the Spaniards brought with them...
This is the real history: "In the 15th century the Spanish conquered Tenerife along with the other Canary Islands. The Guanches put up a great fight, but one by one the islands fell to the conquistadors. After colonisation the Guanches gradually disappeared. (NOT TRUE) Many died of diseases that were introduced by the arrivals from mainland Europe" Many carry their Dna today...
Candelaria❤
So beautiful!
They speak tamazight as in Marocco too amazigh but mixture with Spanish
The original Spanish texts describe them as tall ruddy.(blond ,red headed ) and blue eyed.
😊👍
Stop lying blond hahaha and they resembled Cro-Magnons sure bud..
Also, you forgot that Europeans had traded with them since before the foundation of Rome. Many Europeans permanently settled on the islands since the late middle ages. Let's not forget the bulk of them was not pale skin with blond hair either so stop lying to yourself.
When Espinosa wrote his book it was century later after the invasion of Europeans. And the word rubia (blond) means many different things in old Spanish text.
Btw western Europeans didn't have pale skin (white skin people) it was in low frequency in early farmers, but it spread in the bronze age. So light skin that we know in Western Europeans is very recent. Before this, all western Europeans had dark Skin so it would be impossible for Berbers to have light skin because the light skin DNA allele the SLC24A5 was introduced to East Africa from Europe around 5,000 yrs ago and spread with pastoralists from East Africa to others including San people, etc. Berbers are older than 5,000 yrs.
@@zackgalante4899 OK thanks Dr Adorno.
@@michaelcullen6375 It's all factual and I can easily prove it bud 👍🏼.
Blond hair North Africans do not and never existed. Modern-day Berbers are not the same dark skin people that invaded Spain. Today's Iberian peninsula spain portugal has a high concentration of Berber, arab/Jewish DNA.
If you see modern-day Berbers from
Northern Morocco, Algeria with blond hair it's because of the Barbary slave trade and native Iberian converts that were kicked out of Spain/Portugal by the king and queen. Millions of white European women and men were sold into slavery in North Africa.
Places like Morocco have a high European admixture on their mtDNA mother's side due to the recent migration of European women as slaves. Do research
That's not entirely true, during the first colonial invasions, the guanches were described as 14ft tall giants, black in colour and monstrous in appearance. Later, guanches were being described as mixed tanned and light demographics. Even later, descriptions of certain guanche figures were described as light skin/ light hair. From this, one could conclude that the lower ranking members exposed to the sun where tanned, and leaders who did not work the land seemed more fair skin. There hair course were a mix of dark to light, which is typical of North Africa in general. If you want to go further back, blonde hair originates from East Africa.
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This is the real history: "In the 15th century the Spanish conquered Tenerife along with the other Canary Islands. The Guanches put up a great fight, but one by one the islands fell to the conquistadors. After colonisation the Guanches gradually disappeared. Many died of diseases that were introduced by the arrivals from mainland Europe"
There is many people with their Dna in the islands...DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND FIND THE TRUTH...
This is not a history Chanel. In any case, the story you shared is basically the same as I described in my video.
@swedes-abroad I think the point being made is much broader, Canarians are sick of being referred to as no longer existing when this is not the case, since we are the direct descendants. The guanche culture lives on in us, much in the same way as any other culture in a contemporary context. Constantly referring to a dead or extinct culture is very offensive, and only serves as validation for further exploitation. I notice alot of foreign perspectives projecting this negative way of describing our situation through the use of poor language. When infact one of the best way to understand how guanches once existed, would be to study the local people. I mean common, this was literally only a few hundred years back, and the last historically recognised guanche clan of Tenerife only disappeared in the late 1800's.
my ancestors left Tenerife and migrated to Nueva Galicia. DNA documentation.
Let's be honest. These were (and should be today) islands belonging to Africa...They are just of the African coast.! Like many African lands, the islands were brutally taken from them...like the Americas....
Modern colonialism
Plus they killed most of the aboriginals anyway so now the spanish colonisers in canary islands claime to be qboriginals
Do u kno how biased it is NoT 2 sho close ups oda original peo?!🤔😏u sho a pic 1st den fil da script wit ambiguities 🌸🍯🐝🇺🇸 smh…
Thanks for your comment!
Do you know how many times I had to read your scribble to understand what you were trying to say. Ffs... at least try.
They were blonde and red haired!!!
But why did that host said they were dark haired & dark e yed with dark sk8n😢😮? The host should have b een an indigenous Guache NOT some White foreigner?
There are different accounts as to the looks of the Guanches. There are som “eye witnesses” that wrote down what they saw a very long time ago. And then we have the analyse of genetics that tell us another story.
Stop lying blond hahaha and they resembled Cro-Magnons sure bud..
Also, you forgot that Europeans had traded with them since before the foundation of Rome. Many Europeans permanently settled on the islands since the late middle ages. Let's not forget the bulk of them was not pale skin with blond hair either so stop lying to yourself.
When Espinosa wrote his book it was century later after the invasion of Europeans. And the word rubia (blond) means many different things in old Spanish text.
Btw western Europeans didn't have pale skin (white skin people) it was in low frequency in early farmers, but it spread in the bronze age. So light skin that we know in Western Europeans is very recent. Before this, all western Europeans had dark Skin so it would be impossible for Berbers to have light skin because the light skin DNA allele the SLC24A5 was introduced to East Africa from Europe around 5,000 yrs ago and spread with pastoralists from East Africa to others including San people, etc. Berbers are older than 5,000 yrs.
@@zackgalante4899 are you Black?
@@zackgalante4899Scientists really dont know how old white skin is or where it originated. Although some scientists are claiming it likely came from Neanderthals:
More traits associated with your Neanderthal DNA.
Its is known hair colour originated from Neanderthals and research shows light skin likely also originated from Neanderthals. Pigmentation genes for light skin in modern Eurasians such as POU2F, BNC2 and MC1R found in modern Eurasians, come from Neandertals and were retained according to climate.
Adaptation of human skin color in various populations
DNA taken from ancient Neanderthals shows that they also had genes for green, blue eyes, but also olive skin and dark hair and eyes.
So white skin in modern humans could be as old as 48 000 years .
Guanches were Vikings settlements. Blue eyes, blond hair :) Vikings thousands of years ago reached very distant places........
No. Guanches are indigenous people and Vikings were Norse.
@@lauriekline178 100%
No...that is BS. There were Africans before ANY hostile invaders (discoverers).