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 ...

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 ...

And it was true for the Black inhabitants of the newly born nation, named “Ayiti,” the land of mountains, by the Taino population decimated by the invaders. After the people of Haiti succeeded ...

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 ...