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Christopher Columbus in his journal described how Indigenous people used tobacco by lighting dried herbs wrapped in a leaf and inhaling the smoke. [56] Tobacco, derived from the Taino word "tabaco", was used in medicine and in religious rituals. The Taino people utilized dried tobacco leaves, which they smoked using pipes and cigars.
The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace"), [2] were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. [3] [1] Taíno society was divided into two classes: Nitaino (nobles) and the Naboria (commoners). Both were governed by chiefs known as caciques, who were the maximum authority in a Yucayeque (village).
The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Taíno word for "island", cairi, became cayo in Spanish and "cay" / ˈ k iː / in English [spelled "key" in American English]. [1]
The UCTP's founding declaration was established on January 3rd of 1998, and lists eight articles [8] for their organization: . 1) the protection, defense, and preservation of Taíno cultural heritage and spiritual traditions by enlisting and uniting societies, groups, and organizations together in the Circum-Caribbean, such as the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, Bimini, the ...
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Modern knowledge of Taíno creation myths comes from 16th century Spanish chroniclers investigating the indigenous Caribbean culture. Columbus was very much interested in knowing about the religion of the Taínos; In his original letter to the Queen, he expressed the opinion that the natives had no religion whatsoever, however this was an attempt to persuade Isabella that it would be easy to ...
The Taíno of Quisqueya were an Arawak people related to the inhabitants of the other islands in the Greater Antilles. At the time of European colonization, they were at war with a rival indigenous group, the Island Caribs. In 1508, there were about 60,000 Taínos in the island of Quisqueya; by 1531 infectious disease epidemics and exploitation ...
Taino Zemi mask from Walters Art Museum. A zemi or cemi (Taíno: semi [sɛmi]) [2] was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean. [3] Cemi’no or Zemi’no is a plural word for the spirits.