It reflects a shift in mainstream understandings of the caribbean by celebrating its native legacies and viewing them as part of caribbean people’s patrimony, while simultaneously recognizing. 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.
When christopher columbus arrived on the bahamian island of guanahani (san salvador) in 1492, he encountered the taíno people, whom he described in letters as "naked as the day they were born." the taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems. skilled farmers and navigators, they wrote music and poetry and created. Across the caribbean, there is growing interest in the historical, cultural, and genetic legacies of native peoples. in increasing numbers, individuals, families, and organizations are affirming their native ancestry and identifying themselves as taíno. over the past thirty years, a diverse taíno movement has taken form. The taíno were a historic indigenous peoples of the caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by taíno descendant communities and taíno revivalist communities. [2] [3] at the time of european contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now cuba, the dominican republic, jamaica, haiti, puerto rico, the bahamas, and the northern lesser. Caribbean natives rowing a canoe at sea. arawak speaking peoples from south america began settling the caribbean islands more than 2,000 years ago, encountering and sometimes blending with other native peoples. different taíno communities developed from this ethnic mix by about ad 1000. mode of navigating in the northern sea.
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