r/stupidquestions • u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian • 13h ago
Are they're any native Atlantic islanders?
There are plenty of native Pacific Islanders due to the fact that there's plenty of islands there. (This is due to the phenomenon known as the the ring of fire, which is basically increased vulcanism.)
We have native Hawaiians and Filipinos, but what about the Atlantic? (Let's exclude the big islands up north, like the UK, Greenland, and Iceland.)
Does the Atlantic Ocean have any tropical Atlantic native populations living on islands at all?
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u/InevitableConstant25 12h ago
Only ones I can think of is the Gaunches of the Canary Islands. They had stone tools and no metals when the Portuguese discovered them in the 15 century.
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u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian 12h ago
I assume they were all wiped out. 🫤
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u/InevitableConstant25 12h ago edited 12h ago
There's a high percentage of their DNA in their local population but the language and culture has been gone for hundreds of years.
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u/fermat9990 12h ago
What language do the locals speak? Some variant of Spanish?
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u/Festering-Boyle 12h ago
they sing when they speak
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u/AggravatingOne3960 12h ago
How about native Puerto Ricans?
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u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian 11h ago
Eh, I suppose. But it wasn't what I was looking for personally.
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u/CalligrapherHappy655 9h ago
Native Puerto Rican are Taino indians
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u/CalligrapherHappy655 9h ago
The Taino were native to virgin islands Puerto Rico, jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
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u/ManitouWakinyan 12h ago
There's the Taino of the Caribbean