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Agüeybaná
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Ais (tribe)
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batey (game)
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Carib people
Carib, Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named, are a group of people who live in the Lesser Antilles islands. They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America.
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Caribs
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy,[http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/columbus_christopher.jsp Questia - COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER] "Columbus, Christopher". Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals. 2010[http://books.google.it/books?id=dX4G3Q22UicC&pg;=PR9&dq;=Columbus+born+Genoa&lr;=&cd;=45#v=onepage&q;&f;=true Memorials Of Columbus: Or, A Collection Of Authentic Documents Of That Celebrated Navigator (page 9)] Country of origin: USA. Pages: 428. Publisher: BiblioBazaar. Publication Date: 2010-01-01.[http://books.google.it/books?id=Jvf2Zj_czhIC&pg;=PA127&dq;=Columbus+born+genoa&lr;=&cd;=174#v=onepage&q;&f;=true Native American History for Dummies (page 127)] Authors: Dorothy Lippert, Stephen J. Spignesi and Phil Konstantin. Paperback: 364 pages. Publisher: For Dummies. Publication Date: 2007-10-29.[http://books.google.it/books?id=XNbqUR_IoOMC&pg;=PA67&lpg;=PA68&dq;=Columbus+between+25+August+and+31+October+1451&lr;=&cd;=7#v=onepage&q;&f;=true The peoples of the Caribbean: an encyclopedia of archeology and traditional culture (page 67)] Author: Nicholas J. Saunders. Hardcover: 399 pages. Publisher: ABC-CLIO. Publication Date: 2006-07-15. whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and several attempts at establishing a settlement on the island of Hispaniola, all funded by Isabella I of Castile, he initiated the process of Spanish colonization which foreshadowed general European colonization of the "New World".
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Enriquillo
Enriquillo was a Taíno Cacique who rebelled against the Spaniards from 1519 to 1533. His father was killed while attending peace talks with the Spanish, along with eighty other regional chieftains under the direction of his aunt Anacaona in Jaragua. During the talks, Spanish soldiers set the meeting house on fire and proceeded to kill anyone who fled the flames. Enriquillo was then raised in a monastery in Santo Domingo. One of his mentors was Bartolomé de Las Casas.
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Garifuna people
The Garinagu (singular Garifuna) are descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people. The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib and Garinagu to distinguish them from Yellow and Red Carib, the Amerindian population that did not intermarry with Africans. The Amerindians who had not intermarried with Africans are still living in the Lesser Antilles; Dominica, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, etc. Today they live primarily in Central America. They live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, St. Vincent, Nicaragua and Honduras including the mainland, and on the island of Roatán. There are also diaspora communities of Garinagu in the United States, particularly in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and other major cities.
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Guanahatabey
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Guarionex
Guarionex was a Taíno cacique from the cacicazgo of Maguá in the island of Hispaniola. The later Spanish colonization of the island pushed thousands of indians to other neighboring islands such as Borikén (Taíno name for Puerto Rico) to where he fled.
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Hatuey
Hatuey (died February 2, 1512) was a Taíno Cacique (chief) from the island of Hispaniola, who lived in the early sixteenth century. He has attained legendary status for leading a group of natives in a fight against the invading Spanish, and thus becoming the second fighter against colonialism in the New World after Anacaona. He is celebrated as "Cuba's First National Hero."
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Indian auxiliaries
Auxiliary Indians or indios auxiliares were the name used in old Spanish chronicles and historical texts for the indigenous peoples who were integrated into to the armies of the Spanish conquerors with the purpose of supporting their advance and combat operations, during Conquest of America. They acted as guides, translators or porters and in this role were also called Yanaconas particularly within the old Inca Empire and Chile. The name was also used for formations composed of indigenous warriors or Indios amigos (friendly indians), which they used for reconnaissance, combat, and as reserve in battle. The auxiliary Indians remained in use after the conquest, during some revolts, in border zones and permanent military areas, as in Chile in the Arauco War.
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Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. He is associated with the legend of the Fountain of Youth, reputed to be in Florida.
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Kirkpatrick Sale
Kirkpatrick Sale (born in Ithaca, New York, June 27, 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about environmentalism, luddism, technology and political decentralism. He has been described as "a leader of the Neo-Luddites" and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."
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List of Taínos
This is a list of known Tainos, some of which were Caciques (Male tribal chiefs) or Cacicas (Female tribal chiefs). Their names are in alphabetical order.
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Maroon (people)
Maroons (from the word marronage or American/Spanish cimarrón: "fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit") were runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together. The same designation has also became a derivation for the verb marooning.
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Orocobix
Orocobix was the principal regional Taino Cacique (chief) of the central mountain region of Puerto Rico called Jatibonicu in the 16th century. The Jatibonicu territorial region covered the present day municipalities of Aibonito, Orocovis, Barranquitas, Morovis and Corozal. The Taino language name Orocobix or O-roco-bis literally means: 'Remembrance of the First Great Mountain.'
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Pomier Caves
The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves located north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic. They contain the largest collection of the 2000-year-old rock art in the Caribbean primarily by the Taino, but also by the Carib and the Igneri, the pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles. These caves have been damaged by the uncontrolled mining of limestone nearby.
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Spaniards
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Urayoán
Urayoán was a Taíno "Cacique" (Chief) famous for ordering the drowning of Diego Salcedo to determine if the Spanish were gods.
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Yukiyu
Yukiyú (also known as Yucayu, Yuquiyú, Yucahú, Yocahú, and Yucahú Bagua Maorocoti) was the primary god of the Taíno people of pre-Columbian Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, and the Virgin Islands. He was also later known as "El Gigante Dormido", or "Sleeping Giant".
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Yúcahu
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Bahamas
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Caribbean
The CaribbeanPronounced or . Both pronunciations are equally valid; indeed, they see equal use even within areas of the Caribbean itself. Cf. Royal Caribbean, which stresses the second syllable. In this case, as a proper noun, those who would normally pronounce it a different way may use the pronunciation associated with the noun when referring to it. More generic nouns such as the Caribbean Community are generally referred to using the speaker's preferred pronunciation.; Dutch ; or more commonly Antilles is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and North America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America.
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Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (; , ) is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries. Both by area and population, the Dominican Republic is the second largest Caribbean nation (after Cuba), with and an estimated 10 million people.
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Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles are one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (containing the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) , and Puerto Rico, the Greater Antilles constitute almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies.
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Grenada
Grenada () is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Guadaloupe
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Guyana
Guyana ( ), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is a state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana has been a former colony of the British, Dutch and for a brief period, the French. It is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America, and is also a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), which has its secretariat headquarters in Guyana's capital, Georgetown. Guyana achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 26 May 1966 and became a Republic on 23 February 1970.
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Haiti
Haiti (; French , ; Haitian Creole: Ayiti, ), officially the Republic of Haiti ( ;
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española) is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island is located between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east, directly within the hurricane belt. Hispaniola is perhaps most famous as the site of the first European colonies in the New World, colonies founded by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493. It is the tenth most populous island in the world, and the most populous in the Americas. It is the 22nd largest island in the world.
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Montserrat
Montserrat () is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It measures approximately 16 km (10 miles) long and 11 km (7 miles) wide, giving of coastline. Christopher Columbus gave Montserrat its name on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, after Montserrat mountain located in Catalonia. Montserrat is nicknamed the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, both for its resemblance to coastal Ireland and for the Irish descent of its inhabitants.
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nagua
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Pomier Caves
The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves located north of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic. They contain the largest collection of the 2000-year-old rock art in the Caribbean primarily by the Taino, but also by the Carib and the Igneri, the pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles. These caves have been damaged by the uncontrolled mining of limestone nearby.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( — literally Associated Free State of Puerto Rico), is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its roughly northern coastline includes numerous islands in the Caribbean Sea, and in the north east borders the northern Atlantic Ocean. Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Curaçao, Aruba and the Leeward Antilles lie near the Venezuelan coast. Venezuela's territory covers around with an estimated population of 26,414,816. Venezuela is considered a country with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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Virgin Islands
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West Indies
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- Ais (tribe)
- Amazon Basin
- Avunculism
- Bahamas
- batey (game)
- beans
- Boriken
- Cacique
- calabash
- canoe
- capsicum
- Carib people
- Caribbean
- Caribs
- cassava
- Christopher Columbus
- civil disorder
- coco macaque
- cohoba
- cotton
- creole language
- Cuba
- dialect
- Dominican Republic
- encomienda
- Enriquillo
- fasting
- forced assimilation
- Garifuna people
- garment
- Greater Antilles
- Grenada
- Guadaloupe
- Guaka-kú
- Guanahatabey
- Guarionex
- guava
- Guyana
- Haiti
- hallucinogen
- Hatuey
- Hispaniola
- hoe (tool)
- Hupia
- hutia
- Indian auxiliaries
- infectious diseases
- interracial marriage
- Juan Ponce de León
- Juracán
- Kirkpatrick Sale
- L'Histoire
- Lesser Antilles
- LGTK
- Liga Guakía Taína-ké
- List of Taínos
- macana
- Maipurean languages
- maraca
- Maroon (people)
- matrilineal
- mestizo
- Montserrat
- mtDNA
- nagua
- Old World
- oral history
- oral tradition
- Orinoco
- Orocobix
- Palm tree
- pandemic
- peanut
- petroglyph
- pictograph
- pidgin
- piercing
- pineapple
- Piptadenia
- polygamy
- Pomier Caves
- Puerto Rico
- pyrrhic victory
- ritual
- rubber
- shrub
- slash and burn
- slavery
- smallpox
- snuff
- Spain
- Spaniards
- Spanish language
- Squash (fruit)
- stalagmite
- starch
- sweet potato
- tattoo
- Timacua
- tribal chief
- Trinidad
- tuberous root
- Urayoán
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands
- weir
- West Indies
- Yukiyu
- Yúcahu
- Zamia
- Zemi
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Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People (Short Documentary)
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- Published: 06 May 2011
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Short film made for premiere in the IU Cinema on May 3, 2011. Short Film Editor: Chadwick M. Hanes Graphics: Brian Myers Full Production Crew: Angela Sorury Alicia Tryon Jacob Fisk Brian Myers Chadwick M. Hanes Full Documentary Airs in September on WTIU.
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Taíno Documentary Part II (Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People)
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- Duration: 13:14
- Published: 26 Aug 2011
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Sound Design: Chadwick M. Hanes This is part of the Broadcast-length Taino movie for the Documentary Production class in the Indiana University Department of Telecommunications. I was not the Online Editor for this production; however I did do the sound design (music choice/placement/effect noises) of the original production. I have only a bad copy of the first half, so the second half was the only video salvageable. Sorry about the buffering issues as well. Production Crew: Alicia Tryon Angela Sorury Brian Myers Chad Hanes Jacob Fisk
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Taino Summer Solstice Ohio - THE LOST TAINO TRIBE
Filming Arieto for the documentary THE LOST TAINO TRIBE (www.LostTainoTribe.com) Taino Summer Solstice Ceremony - Arieto at Woodworth Park, Youngstown Ohio 6/2011 Miguel Sague - CANEY INDIGENOUS CIRCLE Members of the Pittsburgh lodge of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE traveled to Youngstown, Ohio and joined local Caney Circle beike Rose Quinones and other local Tainos and local people who appreciate Taino culture as well as representatives of Taino communities from New York, Cleveland, Wisconsin and elsewhere in celebrating this year's Summer Solstice Ceremony. We were honored with the presence of the leader of the UNITED CONFEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE and kasike of the Yukayeke Guainia of New York, Roberto Mukaro Borrero. Mukaro spoke to the assembled group and shared aspects of our Taino culture and responsibility as a resurgent people. We were also honored with the presence of Vanessa Inarunikia Pastramo who shared with us the sacred message of the Journeys of Peace and Dignity due to be shared with Tainos in 2012. The event was sponsored jointly by the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE, the UNITED CONFEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE and the local Red Hawk Native American Society.
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Taino Summer Solstice Ohio Part 2 .mov
Shark Dance - Spirit of Challenge Ceremony Legend of the Taino People Filming Arieto for the documentary THE LOST TAINO TRIBE (www.LostTainoTribe.com) Taino Summer Solstice Ceremony - Arieto at Woodworth Park, Youngstown Ohio 6/2011 Miguel Sague - CANEY INDIGENOUS CIRCLE Members of the Pittsburgh lodge of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE traveled to Youngstown, Ohio and joined local Caney Circle beike Rose Quinones and other local Tainos and local people who appreciate Taino culture as well as representatives of Taino communities from New York, Cleveland, Wisconsin and elsewhere in celebrating this year's Summer Solstice Ceremony. We were honored with the presence of the leader of the UNITED CONFEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE and kasike of the Yukayeke Guainia of New York, Roberto Mukaro Borrero. Mukaro spoke to the assembled group and shared aspects of our Taino culture and responsibility as a resurgent people. We were also honored with the presence of Vanessa Inarunikia Pastramo who shared with us the sacred message of the Journeys of Peace and Dignity due to be shared with Tainos in 2012. The event was sponsored jointly by the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE, the UNITED CONFEDERATION OF TAINO PEOPLE and the local Red Hawk Native American Society.
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Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands 26 Jan 2010.wmv
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- Published: 30 Aug 2011
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- Author: TheGirlslikeme
The Ciboney were pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea.[1] The name Ciboney derives from the indigenous Taíno people which means Cave Dwellers; evidence has shown that a number of the Ciboney people have lived in caves at some time. The Taínos people were pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is thought that the seafaring Taínos are relatives of the Arawak people of South America.[1] The Taíno language is a member of the Arawakan language family, which ranges from South America across the Caribbean
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Taino The Original People of Boriken (PR) USA
American Indian Culture (Taino)
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Taino Heritage.
500 Years of resistance. We The Taino people are still here.
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Beyond Extinction: Consciousness of Taíno and Caribbean Indigeneity
In August of 2011 The Smithsonian hosted a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness. This symposium is part of the Taíno Legacy Project that explores the culture, history and legacy of the Native peoples of the Caribbean islands. In particular, this project will focus on the Taíno, the inhabitants of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, who both greeted—then resisted—Columbus and his men during the first decades of Spanish colonization in the Americas. This project reflects one of the most important cultural encounters in world history. It provides perspectives on Taíno civilization before European contact using the Smithsonian's archeological collections, while demonstrating the enduring presence of a "consciousness of Taíno" on the islands—from domestic architecture, agriculture and spirituality to art, language and biology. "The term, extinction, as applied to a culture and its human community, is always troublesome," said Barreiro. "There is a persistent exuberance about 'Taíno,' in the islands and in their diasporic communities. This is what we are exploring." This project is a multiyear collaboration between the Smithsonian Latino Center, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. An exhibition and public program series on Taíno Legacy are currently under <b>...</b>
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A Taino Story of Cuba: The Untold Story, Mocombo of Canada
The Untold Story of the Taino, the first people to settle in Cuba and their twist of fate and ultimate demise at the hands of the Spanish. Original music recorded in Habana, Cuba and film production by Danny Mott.
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Taino Ceremonial Place, Caguana, Puerto Rico
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- Published: 23 Mar 2009
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Taino Ceremonial Place, Caguana, Puerto Rico where the Taino people met in ancient times.
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THE PLANNED GENOCIDE OF A NATIVE PEOPLE, EPHRAIMITES (TAINOS, BORICUAS)
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- Published: 06 May 2009
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- Author: HallOfShameAtrocity
Enters Christopher Devil Columbus to the western world, and with him the New World Order, and the calculated massacres and annihilations of the Native peoples of the so called Americas who are the 10 tribes of Israel, By the Conquistador Spaniards, FUCK ESAU, THE WHITE MAN!!!
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Los Tainos
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- Published: 17 Feb 2011
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- Author: lifeisgood0808
My spanish project on the culture of the taíno people.
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Borikemetics - Papote Speaks (Puerto Rican Independence & Taino Resurgence)
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- Duration: 4:26
- Published: 14 Jan 2012
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- Author: NattyakaQuique
#Borikemetics
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NightWolf Taino Interview .mov
Jay Winter Nightwolf (Jay Gola Wahya Sunoyi) Cherokee, Taino and Shoshone, is host of "The American Indian's Truths - Nightwolf - the Most Dangerous Show On Radio" WPFW 89.3 FM - Pacifica Radio Here he interviews José Barreiro (Taino Cuba), director of the Office of Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian, Juan Carlos Martínez Cruzado, Biologist/Genecist and Alex Zacarias, Filmmaker of The Lost Taino Tribe after a symposium which featured representative speakers from a multidisciplinary delegation of scholars on Taíno and Caribbean indigenous themes who discussed the survival of Taíno language, identity, and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness. In August of 2011 the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC held a symposium - Consciousness of Taino: Explorations of Identity. The symposium featured representative speakers from a multidisciplinary delegation of scholars on Taíno and Caribbean indigenous themes who discussed the survival of Taíno language, identity, and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness. Participants included archaeologist Osvaldo García Goyco, historian Alejandro Hartmann Matos, biologist Juan Carlos Martínez Cruzado, and historian Juan Manuel Delgado. Roberto Borrero (Boriken Taino), president, United Confederation of Taíno People and Jorge Baracutey Estevez (Kiskeya Taino) served as respondents and Lic Clenis Tavarez Maria Secretary of State for Culture from Kiskeya <b>...</b>
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Taino Pride -Part 2 native american festival-Bobby Gonzalez
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 25 Sep 2008
- Uploaded: 27 Aug 2010
- Author: arizonatsalagi
Different Taino Nations Represent with Pride.
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Gil Mendoza, "Five-Tool", "Wood Bat", Amazing Baseball Highlights!!!!!
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- Duration: 10:03
- Published: 17 Dec 2011
- Uploaded: 28 Jan 2012
- Author: gilbertomendoza0223
Gil's Amazing and Unbelievable Baseball Highlights at NYC PSAL Championship in Brooklyn Cyclone field MCU Park playing with Tottenville High School. Highlights include Tottenville playoffs, regular season and Summer College/MLB Show Case Travel Team the Orioles.
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Faces of White and Multiracial Dominicans
ALOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO DISCRIMINATE DOMINICANS SAYING THEY ARE ALL DARK/BLACK UGLY WITH NAPPY HAIR WHICH IS SOOOO NOT TRUE... DOMINICANS HAVE MIXED ANCESTORS WHICH MEANS WE ALL LOOK DIFFERENT. MOST DARK PEOPLE YOU SEE IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ARE PROBABLY HAITIANS AND PEOPLE CONFUSE THEM WITH DOMINICANS!!!!!!!!!!! YES, SOME DOMINICANS ARE DARK... BUT NOT ALL ALOT ARE LIGHT SKIN, CARMEL SKIN, ETC!!!!!!!!! THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!!!! DOMINICANS ARE 73% mix 16% white and 11% black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gil Mendoza Unbelievable Amazing Highlights 2011
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- Duration: 10:38
- Published: 21 Nov 2011
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Gil Mendoza's Amazing Highlights at Peddie. Highlights of his 90, 82 and 78 yard kick returns for TD's. Highlights of him running 4.0 seconds 40 yard dash breakaway speed with equipment.
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Arnaldo Rivera Speaks about growing up with Taino culture and lifestyle in the mountains of Boriken
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- Duration: 10:36
- Published: 11 Sep 2011
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History maintains that our Taino people are extinct. Recent DNA studies have proven that Native American DNA still runs through the veins of the people of Puerto Rico. In this video, Arnaldo Rivera, a member of the Jatibonicu Taino Tribe of Boriken speaks about growing up in the mountains, the secret Taino gatherings that were held in secret, and the consequences of being caught practicing Taino culture during the 1950's.
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José Barreiro, director of the Office of Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian, introduces the participants of the Smithsonian Latino Center's "Beyond Extinction: Consciousness of Taíno & Caribbean Indigeneity" symposium on August 26, 2011. Text from the invitation: This symposium features scholars on Taíno and Caribbean indigenous themes who will discuss the survival of Taíno language, identity, and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness. Participants include archaeologist Osvaldo García Goyco, historian Alejandro Hartmann Matos, and biologist Juan Carlos Martínez Cruzado. Roberto Borrero, president, United Confederation of Taíno People, will serve as respondent. Moderated by José Barreiro, director of the Office of Latin America at the National Museum of the American Indian. This program is organized by the National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center and is supported by the Consortium for World Cultures, Smithsonian Institution.
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When on that fateful day in history in October of 1492, Colombus crossed paths with the peaceful and nature-loving Taino people, he had a glimpse of a culture that many in the Caribbean today long to re-envision. There is currently a Taino revival among the peoples of the island, sparked in part by random DNA tests that demonstrate that more than 65 % of the modern residents of Borinquen (the island today known as Puerto Rico) have mitochondrian DNA that links them to the aboriginal Taino people. As history books would have it, the Tainos were exterminated within less than a century after the so called "conquest", due to having been enslaved, massacred and exposed to pathogens and illnesses that they had not developed natural defenses against. History books relate that Juan Ponce de Leon, the first Spanish governor who has a modern city named after him, had 6000 Tainos murdered in only one night. Well, it turns out that DNA evidence contradicts history as books would have it, and that now history has to be rewritten. Most Taino men may have been killed by the Christ-worshiping gold-greedy Spaniards during early colonial times but the women, they survived and passed on the matrilineal mitochondrial DNA, not only in the deep mountains (as has previously been supposed) but even in the coastal regions of the island ... which explains many things about peasant jíbaro culture that evolved in the 16-19th centuries. Many of the words having to do with farming used by the peasants <b>...</b>
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The Bahamas
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The Bahamas officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2387 islets (rocks). It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Caribbean Sea, northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States of America (nearest to the state of Florida). Its total land area is almost 14 000 km², with an estimated population of 330000. Its capital is Nassau. Originally inhabited by Arawakan Taino people, The Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonised The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans (as the Bahamian Taino settlers referred to themselves) to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 to 1650, when British colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera. The Bahamas became a crown colony in 1718 when the British clamped down on piracy. Following the American War of Independence, thousands of pro-British loyalists and enslaved Africans moved to The Bahamas and set up a plantation economy. The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807 and many Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy were settled in The Bahamas during the 19th century. Slavery itself was abolished in 1834 and the descendants of enslaved and liberated African form the bulk of The Bahamas's population today. Economic activity is mostly based <b>...</b>
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The Taínos were pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is thought that the seafaring Taínos are relatives to Christopher Columbus who came from South America across the Caribbean.
At the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492, there were five Taíno chiefdoms and territories on Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic), each led by a principal ''Cacique'' (chieftain), to whom tribute was paid. Puerto Rico, also, was divided into chiefdoms. As the hereditary head chief of Taíno tribes, the cacique was paid significant tribute. Caciques enjoyed the privilege of wearing golden pendants called ''guanin'', living in square ''bohíos'' instead of the round ones that the villagers inhabited, and sitting on wooden stools when receiving guests. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the largest Taíno population centers may have contained over 3,000 people each. The Taínos were historically enemies of the neighboring Carib tribes, another group with origins in South America who lived principally in the Lesser Antilles. The relationship between the two groups has been the subject of much study.
For much of the 15th century, the Taíno tribe was being driven to the northeast in the Caribbean (out of what is now South America) because of raids by Caribs. Many Carib women spoke Taíno because of the large number of female Taíno captives among them.
By the 18th century, Taíno society had been devastated by introduced diseases such as smallpox, as well as other factors such as intermarriages and forced assimilation into the plantation economy that Spain imposed in its Caribbean colonies, with its subsequent importation of African slave workers. The first recorded smallpox outbreak in Hispaniola occurred in December 1518 or January 1519. It is argued that there was substantial mestizaje (racial and cultural mixing) as well as several Indian pueblos that survived into the 19th century in Cuba. The Spaniards who first arrived in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola in 1492, and later in Puerto Rico, did not bring women. They took Taíno women for their wives, which resulted in mestizo children.
Terminology
The Taíno people or Taíno culture, have been classified by some authorities as belonging to the Arawaks. Indeed, ethnohistorian Daniel Garrison Brinton, called the same group of people "Island Arawak" from the Arawakan word for cassava flour, a staple of the people. From this, the language and the people were eventually called "Arawak". However, modern scholars consider this a mistake. The people who called themselves Arawak lived only in Guyana and Trinidad and their language and culture differ from those of the Taíno.Throughout time these terms have been used interchangeably by writers, travelers, historians, linguists, and anthropologists. Taíno has been used to mean the Greater Antillean tribes only, those plus the Bahamian tribes, those and the Leeward Islands tribes, or all those excluding the Puerto Rican and Leeward tribes. Island Taíno has been used to refer to those living in the Windward Islands only, those in the northern Caribbean only, or those living in any of the islands. Modern historians, linguists and anthropologists now hold that the term Taíno should refer to all the Taíno/Arawak tribes except for the Caribs. The Caribs are not seen by anthropologists or historians as being the same people, although linguists are still debating whether the Carib language is an Arawakan dialect or creole language—or perhaps an individual language, with an Arawakan pidgin often used to communicate.
Rouse classifies all inhabitants of the Greater Antilles (except the western tip of Cuba), the Bahamian archipelago, and the northern Lesser Antilles as Taínos. He subdivides Taínos into three main groups: Classic Taíno, mostly from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; Western Taíno or sub-Taíno, from Jamaica, Cuba (except for the western tip) and the Bahamian archipelago; and Eastern Taíno, from the Virgin Islands to Montserrat.
Origins
Two schools of thought have emerged regarding the origin of the indigenous people of the West Indies.One group contends that the ancestors of the Taínos came from the center of the Amazon Basin, subsequently moving to the Orinoco valley. From there they reached the West Indies by way of what is now Guyana and Venezuela into Trinidad, proceeding along the Lesser Antilles all the way to Cuba and the Bahamian archipelago. Evidence that supports this theory includes the tracing of the ancestral cultures of these people to the Orinoco Valley and their languages to the Amazon Basin.
The alternate theory, known as the circum-Caribbean theory, contends that the ancestors of the Taínos diffused from the Colombian Andes. Julian H. Steward, this theory's originator, suggested a radiation from the Andes to the West Indies and a parallel radiation into Central America and into the Guianas, Venezuela, and the Amazon Basin.
Taíno culture is believed to have developed in the West Indies. The Taíno believed they had originated from caves in a sacred mountain on Hispaniola.
Culture and lifestyle
Taíno society was divided into two classes: ''naborias'' (commoners) and ''nitaínos'' (nobles). These were governed by chiefs known as ''caciques'' (who were either male or female), who were advised by priests/healers known as ''bohiques''. Bohiques were extolled for their healing powers and ability to speak with gods and as a result, they granted Taínos permission to engage in important tasks.Taínos lived in a matrilineal society. When a male heir was not present the inheritance or succession would go to the eldest child (son or daughter) of the deceased’s sister. The Taínos had avunculocal post-marital residence meaning a newly married couple lived in the household of the maternal uncle.
The Taínos were very experienced in agriculture and lived a mainly agrarian lifestyle but also fished and hunted. A frequently worn hair style featured bangs in front and longer hair in back. They sometimes wore gold jewelry, paint, and/or shells. Taíno men sometimes wore short skirts. Taíno women wore a similar garment (''nagua'') after marriage. Some Taíno practiced polygamy. Men, and sometimes women, might have two or three spouses, and it was noted that some caciques would even marry as many as 30 wives.
Taínos lived in metropolises called ''yucayeques'', which varied in size depending on the location; those in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) being the largest and those in the Bahamas being the smallest. In the center of a typical village was a plaza used for various social activities such as games, festivals, religious rituals, and public ceremonies. These plazas had many shapes including oval, rectangular, or narrow and elongated. Ceremonies where the deeds of the ancestors were celebrated, called ''areitos'', were performed here. Often, the general population lived in large circular buildings (''bohios''), constructed with wooden poles, woven straw, and palm leaves. These houses would surround the central plaza and could hold 10-15 families. The cacique and his family would live in rectangular buildings (''caney'') of similar construction, with wooden porches. Taíno home furnishings included cotton hammocks (''hamaca''), mats made of palms, wooden chairs (''dujo'') with woven seats, platforms, and cradles for children.
The Taínos played a ceremonial ball game called ''batey''. The game was played between opposing teams consisting of 10 to 30 players per team using a solid rubber ball. Normally, the teams were composed of only men, but occasionally women played the game as well. The Classic Taínos played in the village's center plaza or on especially designed rectangular ball courts called ''batey''. ''Batey'' is believed to have been used for conflict resolution between communities; the most elaborate ball courts are found at chiefdoms' boundaries. Often, chiefs made wagers on the possible outcome of a game.
Taíno groups in the more developed islands, such as Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Jamaica, relied more on agriculture. Fields for important root crops, such as the staple yuca, were prepared by heaping up mounds of soil, called ''conucos'', which improved soil drainage and fertility as well as delaying erosion, and allowing for longer storage of crops in the ground. Less important crops such as corn were raised in simple clearings created by slash and burn technique. Typically, ''conucos'' were three feet high and nine feet in circumference and were arranged in rows. The primary root crop was yuca/cassava, a woody shrub cultivated for its edible and starchy tuberous root. It was planted using a ''coa'', a kind of hoe made completely out of wood. Women squeezed the poisonous variety of "cassava" to extract the toxic juices preparatory to grinding the roots into flour for baking bread. ''Batata'' (sweet potato) was the next most important root crop. which means spirit of cassava, was the god of cassava (the Taínos main crop) and the sea. Atabey, mother of Yúcahu, was the goddess of fresh waters and fertility. Guabancex was the goddess of storms (hurricanes). Juracán is often identified as the god of storms but ''juracán'' only means hurricane in the Taíno language. Guabancex had two assistants: Guataubá, a messenger who created hurricane winds, and Coatrisquie, who created floodwaters. Maquetaurie Guayaba or Maketaori Guayaba was the god of Coaybay, the land of the dead. Opiyelguabirán', a dog-shaped god, watched over the dead. Deminán Caracaracol, a male cultural hero from which the Taíno believed to descend, was worshipped as a ''cemí''. ''Cemí'' petroglyphs were carved on rocks in streams, ball courts, and on stalagmites in caves. ''Cemí'' pictographs were found on secular objects such as pottery, and on tattoos. Yucahú, the god of cassava, was represented with a three-pointed ''cemí'' which could be found in ''conucos'' to increase the yield of cassava. Wood and stone ''cemís'' have been found in caves in Hispaniola and Jamaica. ''Cemís'' are sometimes represented by toads, turtles, snakes, and various abstract and human-like faces. Some of the carved ''cemís'' include a small table or tray which is believed to be a receptacle for hallucinogenic snuff called ''cohoba'' prepared from the beans of a species of ''Piptadenia'' tree. These trays have been found with ornately carved snuff tubes. Before certain ceremonies Taínos would purify themselves, either by inducing vomiting with a swallowing stick or by fasting. After serving communal bread, first to the ''cemi'', then to the ''cacique'', and then to the common people, the village epic would be sung to the accompanyment of maraca and other instruments.
Taínos also employed body modification as an expression of their faith. The higher the piercing or tattoo on the body, the closer to their gods. Men usually wore decorative tattoos and the women usually had piercings.
One Taíno oral tradition explains that the sun and moon come out of caves. Another story tells of people who once lived in caves and only came out at night, because it was believed that the sun would transform them. The Taíno believed themselves descended from the union of Deminaán Caracaracol and a female turtle. The origin of the oceans is described in the story of a huge flood which occurred when a father murdered his son (who was about to murder the father), and then put his bones into a gourd or calabash. These bones then turned to fish and the gourd broke and all the water of the world came pouring out.
Taínos believed that the souls of the dead go to Coaybay, the underworld, and there they rest by day, and when night comes they assume the form of bats and eat the fruit "guayaba".
Spaniards and Taínos
Columbus and his crew, landing on an island in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492 were the first Europeans to encounter the Taíno people. Columbus wrote:
At this time, the neighbors of the Taínos were the Guanahatabeys in the western tip of Cuba, the Island-Caribs in the Lesser Antilles from Guadaloupe to Grenada, and the Timacua and Ais tribes of Florida. The Taínos called the island Guanahaní which Columbus renamed as ''San Salvador'' (Spanish for "Holy Savior"). It was Columbus who called the Taíno "Indians", an identification that has grown to encompass all the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. A group of Taíno people accompanied Columbus on his return voyage back to Spain.
On Columbus' second voyage, he began to require tribute from the Taínos in Hispaniola. According to Kirkpatrick Sale, each adult over 14 years of age was expected to deliver a hawks bell full of gold every three months, or when this was lacking, twenty five pounds of spun cotton. If this tribute was not observed, the Taínos had their hands cut off and were left to bleed to death. These cruel practices gave way for many revolts and campaigns—some being successful, some not.
In 1511, several caciques in Puerto Rico, such as Agüeybaná, Urayoán, Guarionex, and Orocobix, allied with the Caribs and tried to oust the Spaniards. The revolt was pacified by the Indio-Spanish forces of Governor Juan Ponce de León. Hatuey, a Taíno chieftain who had fled from Hispaniola to Cuba with 400 natives to unite the Cuban natives, was burned at the stake on February 2, 1512. In Hispaniola, a Taíno chieftain named Enriquillo mobilized over 3,000 Taíno in a successful rebellion in the 1520s. These Taíno were accorded land and a charter from the royal administration. Despite the small Spanish military presence found in the region they were, in fact, able to utilize the diplomatic divisions and, with help from powerful native allies, they were able to control most of the region. In exchange for a seasonal salary, religious and language education, the Taínos were required to work for Spanish and Indian land owners; these services were part of a system called the ''encomienda''.
Population decline
Early population estimates of Hispaniola, probably the most populous island inhabited by Taínos, range from 100,000 to 1,000,000 people. The maximum estimates for Jamaica and Puerto Rico are 600,000 people. The Spanish priest Bartolomé de Las Casas (who was living in the Dominican Republic at the time) wrote in his 1561 multivolume ''History of the Indies'':
Researchers today doubt Las Casas's figures for the pre-contact levels of the Taíno population, considering them an exaggeration. For example, Anderson Córdova estimates a maximum of 500,000 people inhabiting the island. The Taíno population estimates range all over, from a few hundred thousand up to 8,000,000. They had no resistance to Old World diseases, notably smallpox. The encomienda system brought many Taínos to work in the fields and mines in exchange for Spanish protection, education, and a seasonal salary. Under the pretense of searching for gold and other materials, many Spaniards took advantage of the regions now under control of the ''anaborios'' and Spanish ''encomienderos'' by exacting their spirits of greed and violence through the act of leaving nothing uninjured or undefiled. It would take some time before the Taínos were to revolt against their cruel new enemies—both Indian and Spanish alike—and many military campaigns to finally induce Emperor Charles V to eradicate the ''encomienda'' system as a form of slavery.
In thirty years, between 80% and 90% of the population died. Because of the increased number of people (Spanish) on the island, there was a higher demand for food from the Taíno method of plantation which was being converted to Spanish methods. In hopes of gaining a pyrrhic victory over the Christians, some Taínos refused to plant or even harvest their crops and in doing so, the supply of food became so low in 1495 and 1496 that some 50,000 died from the severity of the famine. Despite this massive decline in population, it is safe to say that there simply wasn't enough of a Spanish military presence to be attributed to the large reduction of native manpower. By 1507 their numbers had shrunk to 60,000. Scholars now believe that, among the various contributing factors, epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives.
Taíno heritage in modern times
thumb|Dominican girls at carnival, in Taíno garments and makeup (2005)Many people identify themselves as descendants of the Taínos, most notably among the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, both on the islands and on the United States mainland. The concept of living Taíno has proved controversial, as the historical canon has for so long declared the Taíno to be extinct.Some scholars, such as Jalil Sued Badillo, an ethnohistorian at the University of Puerto Rico, assert that the official Spanish historical record speak of the disappearance of the Taínos. Certainly there are no full blood Taíno people alive today, but recent research does point towards a large mestizo population.
Frank Moya Pons, a Dominican historian documented that Spanish colonists intermarried with Taíno women, and, over time, these mestizo descendants intermarried with Africans, creating a tri-racial Creole culture. 1514 census records reveal that 40% of Spanish men in the Dominican Republic had Taíno wives. Ethnohistorian Lynne Guitar writes that Taínos were declared extinct in Spanish documents as early as the 16th century; however Taíno Indians kept appearing in wills and legal records in the ensuing years.
Anthropologist and archaeologist Dr. Pedro J. Ferbel Azacarate writes that Taínos and Africans lived in isolated Maroon communities, evolving into a rural population with predominantly Taíno cultural influences. Ferbel documents that even contemporary rural Dominicans retain Taíno linguistic features, agricultural practices, foodways, medicine, fishing practices, technology, architecture, oral history, and religious views. However, these cultural traits are often looked down upon by urbanites as being backwards. "It's surprising just how many Taino traditions, customs, and practices have been continued," says David Cintron, who wrote his graduate thesis on the Taíno revitalization movement. "We simply take for granted that these are Puerto Rican or Cuban practices and never realize that they are Taino."
A recent study conducted in Puerto Rico suggests that over 61% of the population possess Amerindian mtDNA. Juan Carlos Martinez, a biology professor at the University of Puerto Rico who conducted his own mtDNA studies, says, "Our results suggest that our genetic inheritance of indigenous origin can't be very low and could be even higher than the inheritance from the other two races (Caucasoid and Negroid)."
Heritage groups, such as the Jatibonicu Taíno Tribal Nation of Boriken, Puerto Rico (1970), the Taíno Nation of the Antilles (1993), the United Confederation of Taíno People (1998) and El Pueblo Guatu Ma-Cu A Boriken Puerto Rico (2000), have been established to foster Taíno culture. However it is controversial as to whether these Heritage Groups represent Taíno Culture accurately as some Taino groups are known to 'adopt' other native traditions (mainly North American Indian). Many aspects of Taino culture has been lost to time and or blended with Spaniard and African culture on the Caribbean Islands. Peoples who claim to be of native descent in the islands of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Eastern Cuba attempt to maintain some form of cultural connection with their historic identities. Antonio de Moya, a Dominican educator, wrote in 1993, "the [Indian] genocide is the big lie of our history... the Dominican Taínos continue to live, 500 years after European contact."
One of the ways that Taino activists now use to strengthen interest and identity is by the creation of two unique scripts. The scripts are used to write Spanish, not a retained language from pre-Columbian ancestors. The organization Guaka-kú teaches and uses their script among their own members, but the LGTK (Liga Guakía Taína-ké) has promoted their script among elementary and middle school students to strengthen their interest in Taino identity.
See also
Notes
References
Guitar, Lynne. 2000. "Criollos: The Birth of a Dynamic New Indo-Afro-European People and Culture on Hispaniola." ''KACIKE: The Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology'', 1(1): 1-17.
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