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  2. List of Taínos - Wikipedia

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    The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace"), [2] were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. [3] [1] Taíno society was divided into two classes: Nitaino (nobles) and the Naboria (commoners). Both were governed by chiefs known as caciques, who were the maximum authority in a Yucayeque (village).

  3. Taíno - Wikipedia

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    Taíno staples included vegetables, fruit, meat, and fish. Though there were no large animals native to the Caribbean, they captured and ate small animals such as hutias, other mammals, earthworms, lizards, turtles, and birds. Manatees were speared and fish were caught in nets, speared, trapped in weirs, or caught with

  4. Pre-Columbian Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    These people lived near the coast and extensively hunted turtles and fish. [1] Around 950 AD, the people of the Meillacan culture settled on both the coast and the interior of Jamaica, either absorbing the Redware culture or co-inhabiting the island with them. [1] The Taíno culture developed on Jamaica around 1200 AD. [1]

  5. Taíno heritage groups - Wikipedia

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    Taíno heritage groups are organizations, primarily located in the United States and the Caribbean, that promote Taíno revivalism. Many of these groups are from non-sovereign U.S. territories outside the contiguous United States, especially Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Taino reenactment in Puerto Rico. The Taíno, an Arawak people, were the major population group throughout most of the Caribbean. Their culture was divided into three main groups, the Western Taíno, the Classic Taíno, and the Eastern Taíno, with other variations within the islands.

  7. List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands - Wikipedia

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    The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492. The Caribbean islands were dominated by two main cultural groups by the European contact period: the Taino and the Kalinago .

  8. 'We have not vanished': Advocate for TaĆ­no people, long said ...

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    But the Indigenous people of the Caribbean encountered by Christopher Columbus have not died away, she said. "I'm here. We're thriving." Colon, who says she is Taíno, is working to rebuild Taíno

  9. Taíno archaeology - Wikipedia

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    The major occupations of the site were from 600 to 900 AD and from 1300 to 1500 AD.” [4] Espenshade states the site contained “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 ...