Their ancestors because Spanish speakers in the Caribbean acknowledgedĬontinued contact with that extensive, sophisticated and complex (D.R.) and Cubans, for example, have continued to use the name Taino for To have a reservation, the Carib Territory, that elects chiefs and Islands, the Island Carib is the only indigenous group in the Caribbean The Island Carib are alsoĭifferent from their Carib relatives in the Guianas and Venezuela,Įspecially since they intermarried with the earlier occupants of their They areĪs distinctive on that continent as the Island Carib or Calinago of theĮastern Caribbean island of Dominica. The neighbors of the Mainland Carib in northern South America. The Taino spokeĪ distinctly different Arawakan language of which the other majorĬaribbean branch, Cariban, is also a member. The island's independence, however, less frequently now. Is still mistakenly used by some Jamaicans and writers 50 years after "Arawak" for the Yamaye Taino people of Jamaica, has been incorrect and Of Jesus the Christ, mainly from South America. The agriculturalistĪncestors of the Taíno began to arrive at around the time of the birth This "D" shaped areaĬontained a vast sea and hundreds of islands and small "cayos", a Taino word from which "cay" and " key" were derived. The fabled Greek "Atlantis", thus, the "Antilles").
(Some Europeans also thought that the Caribbean was Their Western Hemisphere that the 15th century Spanish thought was theīiblical Paradise. True human discoverers since they may have come into a pristine area of The Yucatan, and Florida starting over 6,000 years ago. The Caribbean who may have come from Belize, Island of Hispaniola shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic),īoriken (Puerto Rico) and Yamaye (Jamaica). Yucayas or Lucayas (Bahamas), Caobana (Cuba), Kiskeya or Aytí (the The islanders within the large Taino ethnic collective of CaribbeanĪmerindians called themselves by the names for their islands.
Were approximately six million Taino in the northern area of theĬaribbean at the arrival of Columbus in the Americas in 1492. Frey Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that there Was a recorded name, at the time of Cristóbal Colón (Columbus), for the The game and rubber ball spread around the world in the guise of ( L-R) volleyball, soccer, basketball, American football and tennis. This illustration by Michael Auld was taken from one done in Madrid, Spain in the 1500s and reported by an ambassador to the Spanish Court. Underneath the player are images of balls that bounce (originally with the aid of rubber) used in a number of contemporary games whose roots are in the Mesoamerican team sport invented by the Olmec civilization of Mexico's Yucatan. Here, the player hits the heavy, solid rubber ball with his hip. Puerto Rico has a number of excellent examples of these belts that were ornately carved from one piece of rock. Above : Illustration of a Taíno ballplayer wearing a carved stone belt, according to one researcher, used to change the body's center of gravity, making the player more agile.
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