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The English word barbecue also comes from the Taino term for the rock slabs on which they baked bread.
Often they were named after pre-Hispanic goddesses venerated by indigenous Cuban peoples like the Taino and Ciboney.
The indigenous peoples, Carib, Arawak, Taino, all but disappeared under the impact of Spanish conquest.
The word Indian is not the term by which the people first encountered by Columbus, the Taino, called themselves.
The previous inhabitants, Taino indigenes, were destroyed by diseases, weapons, and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
Almost all our Spanish and Taino history is submerged beneath British and African origins and even the British influence is fast being eclipsed.
Sometimes I wonder if when Columbus came and all the Taino Indians were waiting, which one of those was my ancestor.
The hammock is also a Taino invention discovered by the Spanish upon their arrival in the New World.
Gonzalez is a founding member of Taino del Norte, an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Taino culture.
The Spanish spread the Taino name for the plant wherever they distributed the crop throughout the world.
We do not under any circumstance support the selling of any of our sacred Taino images or objects.
He has been fighting for the rights of Taino people ever since he was a boy of fourteen.
Jose Pedreira's Taino web page is a collection of texts in English and Spanish related to Taino history and culture.
For these philosophical adherents, the Taino continue to exist only as subsumed elements within Puerto Rico's tri-racial dynamic.
Later on it was said that it was derived from Taino traditions, mixed with colonial Spanish and African elements.
José Barriero, a leading expert on indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, is himself of Taino descent.
Dominicans are a blend of the indigenous Taino Indians, the colonizing Spaniards and the Africans brought in chains to work the sugar plantations.
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.
Taino were the first inhabitants of the island and their preserved caves are a treasure of the park.
The Taino Indians who inhabited the island had given it the name « Ayiti », which means high land.
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This arrangement was called by the Taino Indians, a barbacoa from which we get the English equivalent, barbecue.
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