Taino Links

http://hudson.idt.net/~pedrei19/taino1.html#anchor279160 - This site includes a dictionary. Quote from site : "Also at the time of Spanish contact, a protracted war seemed to be going on between the Taino and Caribs, a race similar in physical characteristic and language, but also radically different. Unlike the passive Taino, the Caribs were warlike and like all warlike nations must have had conquest and absorption in mind as they attacked, enslaved, and cannibalized the Taino. According to Columbus and other chroniclers of the time, the Taino were terrified of the Caribs, who raided Taino islands carrying away men, women and children. Women would be ravished and used to produce more offspring. Men and boys were castrated, fattened, and eaten. Eventually the Spanish would absorb and destroy these people too...but it didn't happen without a fight!" - then gives links accounts of Carib fights against whites. - Site written from a Puerto Rican's (Jose Pedreira's Bohio) standpoint about Puerto Rican history.

Taino World - Good site with basic information about all the different aspects of Taino culture. This site is located on the El Barrio Del Museo's web site. El Barrio Del Museo is located on 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029 and the are having a Taino Pre-Columbian Art & Culture from the Caribbean exhibit until March 29, 1998.

Site that links to: "The Hummingbird - Colibri BBS , The Taino National Directory List , The Taino National Library and Museum , The Elders Documentation Project , The Taino Language Project , & The Taino Genealogy Project The Taino Language Project is a project of the Taino Inter-Tribal Council Inc.