PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TAINOS

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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICSOF THETAINOS
GRADE 10 TEACHER MR. C. BROWN
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TAINOS

• Taíno Indians, are a subgroup of the Arawakan
  Indians (a group of American Indians in
  northeastern South America),
• They inhabited the Greater Antilles (comprising
  Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola Haiti and the
  Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) in the
  Caribbean Sea at the time when Christopher
  Columbus' arrived to the New World.

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TAINO MEN
ROLES HUNTER WARRIOR FISHERMAN FARMER
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TAINO WOMEN
ROLES FARMER MOTHER TEACHER NURSE GATHERER
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Resources http//www.tai
no.org/2001f_art.html Taino.org Archaeology of
the Caribbean http//welcome.topuertorico.org/re
ference/taino.shtml Taino Indians
Culture http//www.elmuseo.org/taino/tainoworld.ht
ml Taino World http//www.taino-tribe.org/
Government of the Jatibonicu Taino
People http//prboriken.com/taino.htm Puerto Rico
Taino Culture http//www.archaeology.org/9809/news
briefs/taino.html Taino Finds http//members.aol.c
om/STaino/ Biaraku First People of a Sacred
Place http//ponce.inter.edu/tibes/tibes.html
Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center http//www.tain
o.org/ Taino The Archaeology of the
Caribbean http//www.flmnh.ufl.edu/anthro/caribarc
h/columbus.htmtop Florida Museum of Natural
History Christopher Columbus http//www.elboricua
.com/BoricuaKidsTainos.html Boricua
Kids http//www.elboricua.com/history.html El
Boricua http//www.friendsvinp.org/archeol/lesson/
back.htm Background for Teaching of Caribbean
Prehistory
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