The term Taino is generally used to describe the dominant group of people that inhabited the larger Caribbean islands: Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - and Hispaniola, now divided between Haiti and ...
The Taino were one of the pre-European ... but it almost certainly came from the island of Hispaniola, or what is today Haiti / Dominican Republic, and it is made out of a very dark dense wood ...
It’s been 514 years since the Taíno people, one of the major indigenous groups in the pre-Columbian Caribbean, first rebelled against the Spanish Conquistadors. By that time, the Spanish had ...