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Aug 25, 2015 · The Taino, it's estimated, may have numbered 3 million on Hispaniola alone. “Very few Indians were left after 50 years,” the late Ricardo Alegría, a Puerto Rican anthropologist told a Smithsonian writer in 2011. “Their culture was interrupted by disease, marriage with Spanish and Africans, and so forth, but the main reason the Indians ...
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List of Taínos. This is a list of known Taíno, some of whom were caciques (male and female tribal chiefs ). Their names are in ascending alphabetical order and the table may be re-sorted by clicking on the arrows in the column header cells. The Taíno were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser ...
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The Taína Route. The Taína Route is an informative tour that highlights the role that this ethnic group had on Puerto Rico’s heritage. From north to south and going through the central mountain areas, the route offers a glimpse into the Taíno’s ceremonial centers, tombs, caves, and petroglyphs. Along the way, you’ll discover that the ...
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I didn’t image that in 2018 I would be opening an exhibition, not only about Indigenous legacies in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, but about the Taíno movement. Legacy doesn’t raise hackles—it’s a palatable topic and doesn’t offend the official narrative which holds that Indigenous survival (indioin this context) in the Great Antilles was impossib...
to try to understand Indigenous responses to European colonization accross the Caribbean, it is important to go beyond the first years of exploration, invasion, conquest and early colonization. The post-1492 survival of Indigenous people, identity and culture in the region might be understood through overlapping forms of social positioning such as ...
As the Taíno movement grows in numbers, complexity and public presence, it seemed like a disservice to do another Caribbean archeology exhibition without addressing Taíno identity and community in the present. This contemporary experience gets to the very origin story of the region and the whole of the Americas. Many outside the movement observe it...
Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispanola and Puerto Rico by Jose R. Oliver Palabras Indigenas de la Isla de Santo Domingo por Emiliano Tejera Los Taino y Aves/The Taino & Birds por/by Dra.
When Christopher Columbus landed in what is now called Puerto Rico on November 19, 1493 he was surprised to find that the island he named San Juan Bautista was already inhabited by a Native American tribe called the Taino. It’s estimated that as many as 50,000 Taino lived on Puerto Rico at the time of Columbus’ arrival. They seemed to have ...
The Taínos. The Taíno people called Borinquen (their name for Puerto Rico) home for about 700 to 1000 years. Unfortunately, in the early 1500s, the Spaniards arrived in Puerto Rico and most of the Taíno males were enslaved, and the women became wives for the soldiers. Many were killed off by disease.
