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What does Taino mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Taino? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A group of pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
  2. Their Arawakan language, now extinct.
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The previous inhabitants, Taino indigenes, were destroyed by diseases, weapons, and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
Sometimes I wonder if when Columbus came and all the Taino Indians were waiting, which one of those was my ancestor.
He has been fighting for the rights of Taino people ever since he was a boy of fourteen.
Often they were named after pre-Hispanic goddesses venerated by indigenous Cuban peoples like the Taino and Ciboney.
The English word barbecue also comes from the Taino term for the rock slabs on which they baked bread.
The hammock is also a Taino invention discovered by the Spanish upon their arrival in the New World.

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