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Aug 25, 2015 · Taino ceremonial ball court in Puerto Rico (Wikimedia Commons)“The presence of apparently extra-local pottery made by many different potters, the presence of extra-local faunal resources (including marine shellfish), the presence and use of pine resin from an off-island source, the strong representation of medicinal and ceremonial plants, the presence of suspected highstatus foods, and the ...
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The last traces of the Taino: Puerto Rican ceremonial sites...
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Except for a few Spanish chronicles, such as Fray Ramón Pané’s Relación de las antigüedades de los indios (An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians, 1497), there are few written records of Taíno culture. Luckily, science has given important clues about the Taínos’ rise and decline, debunking the common misconception (known as the “myth of the T...
Taíno society was divided into two social classes, the naborias and nitaínos. The naborias were the laboring class in charge of fishing, hunting, and working in the conuco fields, while the nitaínos, the nobles, supervised their labor. The nitaínos ruled over communities known as yucayeques; and in turn, reported to a status group, the cacique—who ...
The Taínos worshiped two main gods, Yúcahu, the lord of cassava and the sea, and Attabeira, his mother and the goddess of fresh water and human fertility. Yúcahu and Attabeira, as well as other lesser gods associated with natural forces, were worshiped in the form of zemís, sculptural figures that depicted either gods or ancestors. These objects of...
While Columbus set foot on the island of Hispaniola in 1492, conquest of the island did not begin until 1494. Quickly thereafter, exploratory missions took place throughout the Caribbean, with the Spanish colonizationof Puerto Rico beginning in 1508 and Cuba in 1510. By 1509, only 15 years after the establishment of colonial rule in Hispaniola, the...
Common objects produced by the Taíno include zemís, duhos (wooden ritual seats), three-pointer stones, and celts. Three-cornered stones can be small enough to hold in your hand or almost too heavy to carry. They typically include animal or human imagery, similar to the zemífeatured above. On one three-cornered stone from The Metropolitan Museum of ...
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In Puerto Rico—Borikén—educators and farmers (jíbaro) and descendants of jíbaro emerge into a consciousness of Taíno. Landscape and language, medicines and foods, arts and crafts ...
The Taíno were a historic indigenous people of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the northern Lesser Antilles.
Mar 6, 2019 · One of the most famous images for Puerto Ricans is the image of the Taíno sun. While there have been many discussions among scholars about the significance of these symbols, for us, it represents ...
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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.
This capstone project determines what Puerto Rican students learn regarding Indigenous history in Puerto Rican public schools to then analyze how emerging research and activism can be incorporated into schools in an effort to provide a more accurate and inclusive representation of Puerto Rico’s Indigenous history.
