Taino

The Taíno were the Indigenous peoples in most of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, whose culture has been continued today by their descendants and by Taíno revivalist communities. They were the first New World peoples encountered by Europeans. Part of the Arawak group of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Taíno are also referred to as Island Arawaks or Antillean Arawaks. Extending from the Lucayan Archipelago of The Bahamas through the Greater Antilles of Cuba, Jamai...