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8/18/2004
9:32:33 am EDT
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Historians Work To Set Record Straight On Cuba's Taino Indians
Author: Gary Marx, Chicago Tribune Source: The State (SC)
Title: HISTORIANS WORK TO SET RECORD STRAIGHT ON CUBA'S TAINO INDIANS
In a sweltering coastal settlement, Alejandro Hartmann pulled out a spiral notebook and jotted notes as a local peasant described his family's ties to a long forgotten indigenous group that is witnessing a modest resurgence.
Hartmann fired off a dozen more questions as part of his effort to complete the first census of the descendants of the Taino Indians, an indigenous group that once thrived in this remote region of eastern Cuba and later were thought to be extinct.
For years, anthropologists widely believed this island's once-powerful Taino Indians were exterminated shortly after Christopher Columbus sailed into a pristine bay and walked the steep, thickly forested terrain more than 500 years ago.
The explorer spent only a week in the area in 1492 but described the Taino as gentle, hard-working people growing crops and navigating the crystalline waters in huge dug-out canoes.
But, in a familiar story throughout the Americas, war and disease decimated the Taino, whose sense of identity was further razed over the centuries by racism and by generations of intermixing with whites, blacks and others who settled here.
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| It's About Time! | Aug 18th. at 3:02:21 pm EDT |
by Meiri (SW PA) - wc_xemail
Puerto Rico is allowing Taino caves and other sites to be destroyed and damaged by mining operations on the false information from some anthropologists that the Taino no longer exist.
As If their lack of existance would be justification for allowing such destruction, which IMO it is NOT.
I met a fellow who claims Taino descent in the Pittsburgh area over 13 years ago. It doesn't take much of a websearch to find Taino Tribal Associations and current information. So you can imagine my surprise when reading the article a couple of years ago about the mining destruction and seeing the Taino declared extinct. Do those PR anthropologists not get out much? Or is their only research done from 100+ year old assumptions? Or are they in the pay of the mining companies?
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| Good To Hear | Aug 18th. at 2:31:09 pm EDT |
by Odilla (Northern VA) - wc_xemail
It's good to see that people are taking an interests in other cultures then those that were around the United States and Mexico "mainland" area.
There is so much we can learn from these people, and see the movement of where they came from to track how things worked.
I can understand how they would "assume" that they were gone, due to the fact that they worked to assimilate themselves into the new culture, instead of allowing themselves to be completely wiped out. I believe there are a couple of different tribes in South America that researchers are just discovering are still around.
I'd like to see more this.
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