HIS 180 Lecture 1: The Taino Indians- Native Americans of the Caribbean
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The taino indians: native americans of the caribbean. The u. s. government says they are extinct, but they are not. Most likely you might know them as latinos, a spanish speaking person of latin american (the spanish speaking part of the. Not all, but many modern day tainos are unaware of their lineage. To understand how that could happen you must know the story from the beginning. Approximately 1,500 years ago, the arawak people of south america began migrating northward along the many scattered islands located between south and north america, an area we now refer to as the caribbean. For a thousand years their population grew and the people lived in harmony. The people covered all the islands of the caribbean, the major ones as they are now known: cuba, puerto rico and hispaniola as well as all the smaller ones: the bahamas, Certain groups of island people identified themselves as lokono, lucayan,
