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  2. Taíno - Wikipedia

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    Taíno is a term referring to a historic Indigenous people of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by their descendants and Taíno revivalist communities. [2] [3] [4] Indigenous people in the Greater Antilles did not refer to themselves as Taínos, as the term was coined by the anthropologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in ...

  3. 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).

  4. 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.

  5. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    DNA studies changed some of the traditional beliefs about pre-Columbian Indigenous history. According to National Geographic, "studies confirm that a wave of pottery-making farmers—known as Ceramic Age people—set out in canoes from the northeastern coast of South America starting some 2,500 years ago and island-hopped across the Caribbean ...

  6. Haiti - Wikipedia

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    Haiti is the only country in the Western Hemisphere to undergo a successful slave revolution; however, a long history of oppression by dictators such as François Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude Duvalier has markedly affected the republic's governance and society. Since the end of the Duvalier era Haiti has been transitioning to a democratic ...

  7. List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands - Wikipedia

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    The Kalinago people, who were more dominant in warfare, began a campaign of conquering and displacement of the Arawaks at the point of European arrival. Starting at the southern end of the archipelago, they had worked their way north, reaching as far as the island of Saint Kitts by the 16th century.

  8. Lucayan people - Wikipedia

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    The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi , became cayo in Spanish and " cay " / ˈ k iː / in English [spelled "key" in American English].

  9. Taíno archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Taíno pictographs in Cuevas de las Maravillas, the Dominican Republic. Historian Frank Moya Pons states during the early period of Spanish colonization in the Dominican Republic a process "of transculturation began whereby Taino's mixed within the Spanish population, together with African slaves, giving rise to a new Creole culture.