- Taino Indian Culture
- The First Edition of The Modern Taino Dictionary
- The Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation of Boriken
This Is An Official Tribal Government Web Site" - Taino Inter-Tribal Council:
The Taino Inter-Tribal Council is the organization of all Taino and other Arawak-speaking people from the Caribbean islands who are resident in the U.S. - FAQ:The Taino Indigenous People's Internet Forum
- Taino Culture
- THE JATIBONICU TAINO TRIBAL MUSEUM
- The United Confederation Of Taino People
- La Voz Del Pueblo Taino
(UCTP Taino Newsletter) - Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
- THE TAÍNOS OF CUBA, PUERTO RICO, the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, and the USA
Taino: Pre-Columbian Art
and Culture from the Caribbean
Of Arawak descent, the Taino – whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the 6th century – were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within 60 years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taino – skilled agriculturists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers – developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taino practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.
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This stimulating and timely collection examines the Ta¡no revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Ta¡no Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean.
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Although Columbus's diaries contain almost all firsthand information about the Tainos, who became extinct as a result of European colonization, the author has managed to piece together a robust chronicle of their past. Sifting through reports on Caribbean archaeological sites and plumbing studies of language and biology for historical clues, he traces the Tainos back to the initial colonization of the West Indies 5000 years ago. |
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Cave of the Jagua has long been the authoritative text on the now extinct Taíno people of the West Indies. In this revised edition, Antonio Stevens-Arroyo reinforces his groundbreaking work with new research and analysis. The volume features updated interpretations of Taíno spirituality, evaluates recent DNA findings among Caribbean people, and offers new evidence that Taínos were not exterminated in the sixteenth century. This volume will be invaluable to scholars of religion, anthropology, and Latino studies alike. Antonio M. Stevens-Arroyo is professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and director of the Center for Religion in Society and Culture at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key.
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