This story is interesting to me because my mother whose mother was Juana Padron Tapanes was always told that her grandmother was "India" -- they didnt specify anything else but that she always had extremely long, think black hair and she had whatever was considered an "Indian" look...wonder if that is related.

Interestingly, I participated in the National Geographic Genome project where they do a test to determine what DNA group you belong to (on your mother's side only if you are a woman), I was put in Haplogroup D which is a group of peoples that migrated across Asia through North America and into South America, possibly the Caribbean. So when I got my test back it sort of confirmed that somewhere in my ancestry of my mother's line there must be some native peoples. Especially since the other side of my mom's family is strictly Basque.

Go figure.