By that time, the Spanish had spent nearly 20 years enslaving the populations of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and more. The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he ...

Historically, Jamaica’s Tainos were once nomadic, relocating to avoid natural disasters. They lived in close harmony with the land, using environmental cues to predict weather changes and ...

The Taino generally lived in the northern islands including Cuba, Jamaica and the Bahamas, while the Caribs lived in the southern islands. The Taino were farmers who lived in highly-organised ...

The term Taino is generally used to describe the dominant group of people that inhabited the larger Caribbean islands: Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - and Hispaniola, now divided between Haiti and ...