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TV Launched
UCTP Taino News
- In collaboration with Presencia Taina TV, and Indigenous Peoples
Literature, the United Confederation of Taino people has announced
the launching of the TAINO TV Network. This historic project, which
uses new media outreach mechanisms such as You Tube will assist
the UCTP in its focus on using communications technology to increase
the visibility of the Taino and other Caribbean Indigenous Peoples
internationally.
"From the
new Taino TV site as well as other media launch points already developed
such as Presencia Taina TV, we will be providing visual services
never before available to our community and others who are interested
in cultural heritage of the Caribbean region" stated Roger
Atihuibancex Hernandez, founder of the Presencia Taina TV project.
Viewers can now long into Taino TV at can view and subscribe to
Taino TV at http://www.youtube.com/Tainotv
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A
Brief Summary of the Origin, and Survival of the Taino Language
by David Wahayona
Campos
The Greater
Antilles, lying in the center of the Caribbean region, contain the
four largest islands of the area. The islands of Cubanakan (Cuba),
Boriken (Puerto Rico), Bohio (Haiti/Republica Dominica), Xamaika
(Jamaica), as well as the Lucayo (Bahamas) all share a universal
language with some dialectal differences. In the late 1500s Bishop
Las Casas stated "En todas estas islas eran una lengua y misma
costumbres."
The Taino language
of the Greater Antilles is related to the Arawakan stock stemming
from South America, "the people of the Arawak language family
still comprise on of the more widespread indigenous culture within
relatively large kinship nations in the Amazon and Orinoco river
basins of South America." (Barreiro, 1990) The language of
the central Arawak or Lokono (meaning the "people"), and
the Garifuna currently of Central America, are prime examples
that are closely related to the Taino language, which is sometimes
referred to as "Island-Arawak."
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Taino
Women's Circle in NY
The next Taino
Women's circle will meet again on Saturday Feb 3, 2007 from 12 noon
to 6 PM. This circle will really be GREAT... WE WILL BE FOCUSING
ON OUR FEMALE ENERGY. We will be examining our women's ceremonies
as well as learning chants,songs etc., etc.
Each women will
receive to take home a copy of all songs, chants and or ceremony.
There will be lots of good food and you can bet we will have a totally
fun time as well as a spiritually rewarding exchange... The heartbeat
of a Nation is it's women...
Note, we also
will be discussing the Taino Women's conference already set and
to be held this year. Registration for conference are already coming
in, so once again check out YABOA. Please go to YABOA web site yaboa_nwc@yahoogroups.com
for more details as well as address or call me at 718-796-2460...
Also keep in
mind our circle is for TAINO women no matter what yukayeque or group
you belong to or are affiliated with. If we do not know you or if
you belong to no circle, please contact us before hand.
If you wish
to bring a non-Taino sister or friend, you must call in advance
as attendance must be approved by all our TAINO sisters before hand...
Mark your calendars...
together we can make a difference.
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Puerto
Rican Parrots
by
J. Michael Meyers
National Biological Service
The Puerto Rican
parrot (Amazona vittata) had shared its habitat with the peaceful
Taino Indians for centuries before the arrival of European settlers
in the Caribbean.
Status and Trends
Upon arrival
of the Spanish in 1493, the Puerto Rican parrot lived in all major
habitats of Puerto Rico and the adjacent smaller islands of Culebra,
Mona, Vieques, and possibly the Virgin Islands (Snyder et al. 1987).
Parrots occupied eight major climax or old-growth forest types (Little
and Wadsworth 1964) that covered Puerto Rico and were interspersed
only by small, scattered, sandy, or marshy areas near the coast
(Snyder et al. 1987). Parrots nested in cavities of large trees
that were plentiful throughout the forests. Fertile, moist lowland
forests in the coastal plain as well as forested mountain valleys
contained much of the fruits and seeds necessary to feed a thriving
parrot population. The forests of Puerto Rico probably supported
a parrot population of 100,000-1,000,000 at the end of the 15th
century (Snyder et al. 1987; Wiley 1991).
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