Many Taino words persist in the Puerto Rican vocabulary of today. Names of plants, trees and fruits includes: maní, leren, ají, yuca, mamey, pajuil, pitajaya, cupey, tabonuco and ceiba. Names of fish, animals and birds includes: mucaro, guaraguao, iguana, cobo, carey, jicotea, guabina, manati, buruquena and juey.
Archeologist and curator Stephanie Bailey explained that in her Puerto Rican family, her grandmother never identified as Taino. “My grandmother doesn’t look indigenous, but her mother does, ...
Taino, 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.
Explore Puerto Rico’s street food, where Taíno roots, African techniques, and Spanish ingredients fuse into mofongo, alcapurrias, pinchos, and icy piraguas.
CBS News: Chicago's Puerto Rican community welcomes indigenous Taíno council sharing history, culture
CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of people in Humboldt Park have a unique chance to connect with history and culture. The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is hosting a tribal council from ...
insider.si.edu: Taíno revival : critical perspectives on Puerto Rican identity and cultural politics / edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera ; Arlene Dávila ... [et al]
Taíno revival : critical perspectives on Puerto Rican identity and cultural politics / edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera ; Arlene Dávila ... [et al]
Taíno derives from the term nitaino or nitayno, which referred to an elite social class, not an ethnic group. [4] According to José Barreiro, the word Taíno directly translates as "men of the good". [27] 16th-century Spanish documents do not use the word to refer to the tribal affiliation or ethnicity of the Natives of the Greater Antilles; the word tayno or taíno, with the meaning "good ...