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

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.

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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