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Taiguey Guaitiaos
Good Day Friends
Taino Indigenous People of The Caribbean & Florida
The Taino people living in the mountainous regions of the Caribbean Islands faced economic hardship. Because they were by tradition farmers, Taino workers from the Islands and from Florida entered into contracts with farmers in southern New Jersey to supply agricultural labor in the production of vegetables.
These Taino peoples originated in the mountain yucayeke (village) of Jatibonicu' - the village of Great Chief Orocobix of the district of Jatibonicu', which today covers the cities of Orocovis, Barranquitas, Morovis and Aibonito on the Island of Boriken (Puerto Rico).
"We are not, nor are we so bigoted as to have ever claimed to be the Taino
Indigenous People of the Caribbean and Florida, but just another small humble
branch of the same old Sacred Cojobana tree".
We, the Taino people, know Cristóbal Colón very well. He called our people Indio. The word sounds like In God one with God, yet he committed mass genocide against 8 Million of my family members.
Now ask me, "Do I love this white man named Colón?"
I always seem to cry when I talk about what this man and his people did! The pain of my people is still very deeply rooted within my heart! I only ask the Creator Yaya for forgiveness, for my painful bitterness of this cross that I carry within my heart!
The Taino people are very much alive. They just cover the negative side of how Cristóbal Colón (Columbus) and his Euro-criminal scaused mass genocide against our people. They do not tell the whole truth, they just keep spreading the Caribbean Taino extinction story. The other problem we find is that they do not inform people that the Taino's had lived in the tropical Taino homeland of Florida as the Tribes of the Timucua, Guacara and Calusa or other Taino people living in Bemini (Florida) at the time of the Spanish invasion of 1492-93. We will start a Taino Indigenous book review, to clear out the false story tellers. Most of the books you find do not cover the fact that the Taino people are very much alive.
Yes, the memories do cut like a knife into my heart. But the memory of this animal must be spoken about, for our people have gone too long without telling the world the truth, about this man called Cristóbal Colón, the man that did not discover anything. To the north they speak of him in history books, as a great man. They do not tell how he and his people fed the chopped up body's of our children to their killer dogs. Nor do they talk about the men that, jokingly placed our young Yucayeke(Village) boys in a line and cut them in half with the Toledo swards. See how many of our Taino children that they could cut in half with one single blow! Yes the 500 plus years of pain never goes away. I, as a Taino man must tell the world what it does not want to hear. The truth spoken by one of the real First Americans who survived of the great holocaust of the of the 6 to 8 Million tears.
WE TAINO'S HAVE SURVIVED TO TELL THE WORLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS MAN NAMED COLUMBUS !!!
It seems that the father of Ulele, Cacique Hirrihugua of the Yucayeque (Village) of Ucita, was going to have Juan (John) Ortiz put to death, because the Spaniard Narvaez had cut off his nose and killed his Mother. The daugther Ulele pleaded with her father to spare Ortiz's life. The next day Caciquea Ulele took Ortiz to the nieghboring Guacara Yucayeque (Village) of Cacique (Chief) Moscoso. The rest is nothing but a little white lie told by John Smith or John Ortiz an English manor a Spaniard? The Powhatan people do not have our Taino southern traditions; furthermore we do not speak the Powhatan language of the North-East. We Taino Indigenous Nation of the Caribbean & Florida know the truth of Juan Ortiz. It was not until 500 years later on in November 18th, 1993 that we have made this statement via our supporting evidence of traditional language and customs of the Taino-Timucua people of Bimini (Florida). Please do note that many historians of Florida support these historical facts.
TaÌno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
Brief History of the Baramaya-Taino Community
The Jatibonicu Taino of BorikÈn
The Tekesta Taino Tribal Band of Bimini, Florida
A Dictionary Of A Spoken Taino Language
The Taino National Directory List
project was started on November 24,
1993, with the support of the Puerto Rican Genealogy Society of
Morovis Puerto Rico. The linking of all the Taino families under
one National Directory of the Caribbean is a monumental task.
The Taino Elders Documentation Project
It seems that the Indigenous Caribbean knowledge is disappearing
at an alarming rate with the passing on of our older Elders. We
have taken the task of documenting all Taino family genealogy and
mountain culture remaining that is in the past memories of our older
Elders, who are dying off like flies. We must act now! We must realize
for each minute we waste an older elder dies, with them goes a part
of our past history, our true understanding of the Taino Indigenous
way of life. Each day a part of our own life dies along with our
beloved sacred Elders!
Project Team Volunteers
We
are asking that if anyone living on the other Caribbean
Islands is interested in working with the Committee
on this new Elders Project, to please contact our office so that we can make unified effort.
Taino National Repatriation Committee Members Needed
(Statement: To Repatriate All Sacred Objects and Cultural Property) Our
Taino Indigenous People's Sacred Objects are being sold at auctions,
yet we can not stop them, because of a loophole in the law of not
being BIA officially recognized. We are now starting up a fight
to stop these people from selling our Sacred things. We need the
help of our all Native American Nations to stop this from happening.
Can anyone help us Tainos the First Americans of the invasion of
Oct 12, 1492. Your fight is our fight, our fight is your fight!
Now we Taino's need your brotherly support. Our Southern Colibri
(Hummingbird) is calling to his brother the Guaraguao (Great Redhawk)
and the Spotted Eagle) its brothers to the north. Our Mayohuacan
Drum of the South beats for the union of the Sacred Buffalo Drum.
The Longhouse of the Wolf Clan hear our cries, the cries of the 8
Million Taino ancestors - the victims of Columbus!
References:
"The Indian Chronicles" by Jose Barreiro Ph.D a Prof. at Cornell University
The Taino Documentation Project A Monumental Task We
have The "Taino Documentation Project." We have collected many Taino
files that we have within our project archives related to the Taino
Indigenous people of the Caribbean and United States mainland. The
BBS Hummingbird BBS online Service has a major database so call
the Board [and] look around. If you have any new Taino documents
or other related information files that you would like to share,
then please upload, then to the Hummingbird BBS database. Please
do it today. The Taino people need the help of lots of good Caribbean/Florida
friends.
Puerto Rico And United States Tribal Contact
El Consejo Tribal Taino De Jatibonicu'
Las Montan~aa De La Cordillera Central
Barrio Caonillas, Aibonito, Puerto Rico 00705
May the Great Mystery Bless, Guide, Protect and Sustain you
all, now and always!
Qu» el Gran Mysterio Bendiga, GuÃa, Proteye & Sustenga a
todo, ahora y siempre!
Taino-Ti! (Good Spirits Be With You! / Buenos Espiritus
Estar Con Ustedes!)
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