He named the island San Juan Bautista St. John the Baptist , but the name was changed not long after to Puerto Rico, which means rich port, and San Juan became the capital city.
Because of the many interactions between the native Taino people and Spanish settlers, Puerto Rican culture is a blend of Taino, Spanish, and African cultures. Aspects of all three can be seen in modern-day Puerto Rico. It is a percussive instrument made from a hollowed gourd.
Other music traditions were brought to Puerto Rico with the introduction of Spanish and African cultures. These new inhabitants brought varying instruments, including several kinds of guitars with varying levels of strings. One that stands out most is the Puerto Rican cuatro, which has 10 strings! Percussion instruments go hand-in-hand with stringed instruments in Puerto Rican music.
Tambours, which are made from hollowed tree trunks often covered with animal skin, can be heard on the streets frequently. Like other aspects of Puerto Rican culture, dance traditions come from the Taino people along with Spanish and West African roots. It was started at the end of the 17th century. Those who worked in the sugar cane fields were slaves.
They created the dance and used it to express their frustration about the hardships of their condition. Her friends and neighbors would share oral histories about traditions that were passed down to them from Native ancestors, who must somehow have survived to share these customs. In recent years, several groups have pushed a counter-narrative in which indigenous groups were greatly diminished by colonization, but not completely destroyed. If this were correct, there should be some genetic evidence to back it up.
But the only way of finding it would be to examine the DNA of the pre-colonization populations. On this tropical island, ancient DNA, which degrades rapidly in heat and humidity, is hard to come by. Read: Scientists can now pull the DNA of ancient humans out of cave dirt. But such ancestry can be hard to interpret because European colonizers moved people around.
Navy purchased two thirds of the island to use as a naval base. The Navy used the area for military exercises and bombing practice for nearly 60 years until a civilian was killed during a bombing exercise in the s. This sparked a wave of protests that finally ended when the base closed in Since then, the Navy's lands have become wildlife reserves.
Puerto Rican, but what is your race? I am a "Puerto Rican" I am a "Boricua". That same question has followed me again and again since I've been here in Rochester, and even at work where I am forced to ask the same question to other Puerto Ricans.
The responses I have received vary from day to night I have heard people that get as uncomfortable as I feel having to choose between white or African American. Others opt to choose according to how close their skin looks to the skin color of the options we are given.
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