Taino
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- proper noun
- Famine and disease were unabated in the villages, and among the Taino, the feeling of despair continued to grow.
- ancestors of the Taino
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- I am native on my Puerto Rican side from Taino Indians.
Examples
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As in Mesoamerica and parts of South America, the Taino played the game on large, flat courts lined with stones or earthen embankments.
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Many artifacts from the Taino culture have been discovered, revealing their connection to the Greater Antilles.
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Yet, the fate of the Taino was just a small part of the story.
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Living in the region was a peaceful and friendly group, the Taino, who traded goods with the crew.
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The Taino world stretched more than 1,000 miles from east to west.
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Specifically, Columbus required a quarterly tribute in gold from every Taino over the age of 14.
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By 1542, a census showed that only 200 Taino remained alive.
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Columbus also noted in his journal that the Taino adorned themselves with modest pieces of gold jewelry.
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For the Taino, political disintegration and the decimation of the population occurred simultaneously.
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Members of the Taino tribe, the boys live on Guanahani (GWAH-nah-hani), an island whose name means iguana.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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People who lived in the Caribbean islands before Europeans arrived
Surface Forms
Etymology
Taino was the name the native people of the Caribbean used for themselves, probably meaning 'good' or 'noble' in their own speech. So a Taino is a person from that native group.