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Taíno people
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The Taíno were the Indigenous peoples in most of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas. Their culture has been continued today by their descendants and by Taíno revivalist communities. They were the first New World peoples encountered by non-Norse Europeans. Part of the Arawak group of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Taíno are also referred to as Island Arawaks or Antillean Arawaks.
The Taíno were Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Caribbean islands (the West Indies) and were among the first peoples from the Americas encountered by Europeans arriving from outside the Norse tradition. Their cultural legacy continues today through both their descendants and modern Taíno revivalist communities.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Taíno
- Ethnic group.image
- Estatua de Agüeybaná II, El Bravo, en el Parque Monumento a Agüeybaná II, El Bravo, en Ponce, Puerto Rico (DSC02672C).jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Statue of Agüeybaná II, "El Bravo"in Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Ethnic group.regions
- Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Bahamas
- Ethnic group.languages
- English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Creole languagesTaíno
- Ethnic group.religions
- Taíno (historically)
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Lokono, Kalinago, Garifuna, Igneri, Guanahatabey, Arawak
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Native Americans in the United States
- Languages spoken
- Taíno
- Religion
- monotheism
- Country
- United States
- Location
- Caribbean
- Image
- Taínos.svg
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- Taíno
- topic's main category
- Category:Taíno
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Etymology
- Origins
- Society
- Women
- Culture
- Food and agriculture
- Food crops
- Tobacco
- Spirituality
- Spanish contact
- Genocide and depopulation
- Present
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Jamaica
- United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Taíno revivalist communities
- DNA studies
- See also
- References
- Cited sources
- Further reading
- External links
The Taíno were the Indigenous peoples in most of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas. Their culture has been continued today by their descendants and by Taíno revivalist communities. They were the first New World peoples encountered by non-Norse Europeans. Part of the Arawak group of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Taíno are also referred to as Island Arawaks or Antillean Arawaks.
Extending from the Lucayan Archipelago of The Bahamas through the Greater Antilles of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico to Guadeloupe in the northern Lesser Antilles, or the Leeward Islands, the Taíno historically lived in agricultural societies ruled by caciques with fixed settlements under a matrilineal system of kinship and inheritance, and a religion centered on the worship of zemis. At the time of European contact, they shared land with older Indigenous inhabitants, namely the Guanajatabeyes in Cuba, and the Ciguayos and the Macorix in Hispaniola, and they were engaged in conflict with the recent Carib settlers of the southern Lesser Antilles, or the Windward Islands.
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