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Groups outside the 48 contiguous states and Alaska [a] are currently ineligible for federal recognition. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Some of these groups are represented on the International Indian Treaty Council under the United Confederation of Taíno People , which has campaigned nationally and at the United Nations for the United States to recognize ...
The UCTP's founding declaration was established on January 3rd of 1998, and lists eight articles [8] for their organization: . 1) the protection, defense, and preservation of Taíno cultural heritage and spiritual traditions by enlisting and uniting societies, groups, and organizations together in the Circum-Caribbean, such as the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, Bimini, the ...
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A group of about 24 Taíno people were abducted and forced to accompany Columbus on his 1494 return voyage to Spain. [ 69 ] On Columbus' second voyage in 1493, he began to demand tribute from the Taíno in Hispaniola.
He fled to Hispaniola to what now is Dominican Republic after the 1511-16 Taino rebellion. [5] Acanorex: Cacique on Ayiti (currently Hispaniola) [6] Agüeybaná (The Great Sun) Cacique whose name means "The Great Sun" was "Supreme Cacique" in Puerto Rico who welcomed Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadors. His yucayeque was on the Guayanilla ...
[4] [5] Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by names of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the name of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish ...
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Letter of Intent to Petition 02/25/1981; determined ineligible to petition (SOL opinion of 10/23/1989). [30] Group formally dissolved and department notified group 02/19/1997. [27] Tuscarora Nation of Indians of the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC. Letter of Intent to Petition 12/21/2004. [27] Tuscarora Nation of North Carolina, Maxton, NC.