The English word barbecue also comes from the Taino term for the rock slabs on which they baked bread. |
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Often they were named after pre-Hispanic goddesses venerated by indigenous Cuban peoples like the Taino and Ciboney. |
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The indigenous peoples, Carib, Arawak, Taino, all but disappeared under the impact of Spanish conquest. |
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The word Indian is not the term by which the people first encountered by Columbus, the Taino, called themselves. |
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The previous inhabitants, Taino indigenes, were destroyed by diseases, weapons, and enslavement brought by the Spanish. |
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Almost all our Spanish and Taino history is submerged beneath British and African origins and even the British influence is fast being eclipsed. |
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Sometimes I wonder if when Columbus came and all the Taino Indians were waiting, which one of those was my ancestor. |
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The hammock is also a Taino invention discovered by the Spanish upon their arrival in the New World. |
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Gonzalez is a founding member of Taino del Norte, an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Taino culture. |
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The Spanish spread the Taino name for the plant wherever they distributed the crop throughout the world. |
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We do not under any circumstance support the selling of any of our sacred Taino images or objects. |
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He has been fighting for the rights of Taino people ever since he was a boy of fourteen. |
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Jose Pedreira's Taino web page is a collection of texts in English and Spanish related to Taino history and culture. |
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For these philosophical adherents, the Taino continue to exist only as subsumed elements within Puerto Rico's tri-racial dynamic. |
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Later on it was said that it was derived from Taino traditions, mixed with colonial Spanish and African elements. |
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José Barriero, a leading expert on indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, is himself of Taino descent. |
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Dominicans are a blend of the indigenous Taino Indians, the colonizing Spaniards and the Africans brought in chains to work the sugar plantations. |
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In 1494-95, after Columbus imposed a tribute of gold to be paid by every Taino man, woman or child, Guarionex went to the first colonizer with a counter offer. |
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Taino were the first inhabitants of the island and their preserved caves are a treasure of the park. |
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The Taino Indians who inhabited the island had given it the name « Ayiti », which means high land. |
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Its features and the nature and placement of objects suggest that the Taino considered the well a portal to the underworld. |
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I became the Invisible Taino Indian or the invisible Boricua. |
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He gave the island the Taino called Adamay to a friend and fellow traveller from Savona in Italy who renamed it Bella Savonese. |
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When Columbus landed on what is now Puerto Rico, he saw Taino natives slow-roasting meat on a grid over a pit filled with smoldering, burned down wood. |
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So far, the site is not the largest Taino city ever discovered. |
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But the Bahamas had already long been inhabited by Taino and Lucayan, or Arawak, Indians. |
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It reflects French, African rhythms, Spanish elements and others who have inhabited the island of Hispaniola and minor native Taino influences. |
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Together with Taino who migrated from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people developed as the Lucayan. |
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This is true also of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and in terms of the Taino base, the Greater Antilles, the big islands, much less so on Jamaica and Haiti. |
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It has been suggested that the Amerindians either left the island voluntarily or were transplanted to Cuba to replace the decimated Taino population which worked the mines. |
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In this interview, Cuban-born scholar of Taino heritage discusses the challenges and resiliency of Latin American indigenous peoples and what is being done to protect their cultures and rights. |
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In the jewel of the medal appears a Duho or ceremonial chair of the Taino people who, as you know, inhabited the whole island when the first meeting took place with those arriving from across the seas. |
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We will also again see the Taino 24m, already seen at Cannes last year. |
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Similarly, the Aleta sinkhole is culturally significant as a ritual deposit of Taino cultural objects: other such holes are known in Taino archaeology but the size and contents at Aleta make it outstanding. |
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Then we'll go to the modern part of the city, into the cultural centre to visit the Museum of Dominican Man where you can find various crafts and works of art left by the Taino Indians. |
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So just let yourself glide from platform to platform and swing through the air with a privileged bird's eye view of the lush, tropical ancient Taino Mountain. |
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Sealease finally trusted us and we currently operate in Cape Verde a brand new Taino 82 under German flag that we rent to them for 96 months with also a possibility to purchase the boat at the end of term. |
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Jackson, born in Cardiff, South Wales, is of Jamaican, Maroon, Taino, and Scottish ancestry. |
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Later explorers found many cultivars under an assortment of local names, but the name which stayed was the indigenous Taino name of batata. |
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This 100,000-year-old cave was only discovered in 1926, although it was a sacred place for the Taino Indians 1000 years ago. |
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Carved on a stalactite in a high marine cave that opens to the Caribbean Sea, these ideograms are associated to the Taino culture. |
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The Taino were among those who left their mark in the caves. |
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The precise origin of this word is disputed, but it is generally thought to have derived at least in part, from Taino, the Arawakan language of the Caribbean. |
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The island's cultural history begins with the Taino Native Americans. |
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Taino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas from Hispaniola and Cuba around the 11th century, having migrated there from South America. |
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Columbus found the fort in ruins, destroyed by the native Taino people. |
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The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Paracas, Moche, Inca, Maya, Aztec, Taino and other early cultures are well represented. |
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