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Bookmark or Share- Taino | History & Culture | BritannicaTaino, Arawakan-speaking people who at the time of Columbus’s exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Once the most numerous indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino may have numbered one or two million at the time of the Spanish conquest.
- Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History | SmithsonianThe term Taíno was first recorded in Spanish chronicles in 1493. It is usually translated as meaning “good" or "family," although its actual meaning is still debated. Linguists and then...
- Meet the survivors of a ‘paper genocide’ - National GeographicHISTORY & CULTURE. Meet the survivors of a ‘paper genocide’. A leader of the indigenous Caribbeans known as the Taíno describes how his people’s history was erased—and what they’re doing to get...
- Taíno Figure | National Museum of African American History and Culture(Catalog Number 053753). A male figure with frog-like legs and a hump resembling a turtle is carved into the bottle. These details suggest that the bottle is connected to the story of Deminan Caracaracol, a mythical figure of the Ancient Caribbean.
- Smarthistory – Introduction to Taíno artThe Taíno then, remain central to understanding the history and the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. The Taínos emerged c. 1200 C.E. They are descendants of the Arawaks who migrated from the northern coastal region of South America to the Caribbean where they settled in the Greater Antilles.
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