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  2. Taíno - Wikipedia

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    [134] [135] This often included learning English and Spanish, and being required to wear Anglo-American clothing. [136] Some Puerto Rican children were sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School , the flagship among American Indian boarding schools , [ 134 ] [ 137 ] [ 135 ] including children with Taíno heritage. [ 107 ]

  3. List of Taínos - Wikipedia

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    Gálvez's servant was taken prisoner as so were the Taino rebels and Baconao's Daughter. The Spanish buried Gálvez and left Mabey's cadaver to rot and be eaten by vultures. They then led the procession of indigenous prisoners to the presence of Capitan Vasco de Porcallo, which he ordered to the gallows.

  4. Taíno language - Wikipedia

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    As Spanish, English, and French became the dominant languages, some Taíno words were absorbed into those languages. [2] As the first Indigenous language encountered by Europeans in the Americas, it was a major source of new words borrowed into European languages.

  5. Zemi - Wikipedia

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    Small amuletic zemis would be worn on warriors' foreheads for protection in battle. [6] Zemis are sculpted from a wide variety of materials, including bone, clay, wood, shell, sandstone, and stone. [1] They are found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean islands. Some are quite large, up to 100 cm tall.

  6. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition) from ahtlatl [ˈaʔt͡ɬat͡ɬ] Atole (definition) from atōlli ...

  7. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).

  8. Caguax - Wikipedia

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    His high rank in Taino society allowed him to also retain his Taino names, Guaybanex, and his surname, Caguax. [ 3 ] Francisco Guaybanex Caguax sought to avoid conflict with the Spanish; as a powerful chief in the northern slopes and plains of the island he understood the heavy toll his people would suffer if they were to oppose the Spanish ...

  9. Cacique - Wikipedia

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    Túpac Amaru II, an Andean cacique [clarification needed] who led a 1781 rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru Cangapol, chief of the Tehuelches, 18th century.. A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (Latin American Spanish:; Portuguese: [kɐˈsikɨ, kaˈsiki]; feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater ...