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-Tainos lived in Villages
-In the center of each village was a large open space like a plaza

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-The Tainos belong to different tribes
-Each tribe had a chief or cacique
-Everyone in a Taino family had to work
-The woman took care of the farming
-Children helped out
-The men fished and hunted
-Work was important to the Tainos

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Students created artifacts to represent items made long ago by Taino communities.

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Carvings in large rocks with Taino symbols have been found and show that Tainos were there.

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Stories, fables, myths, and legends of early Taino are being shared today to learn more about the Tainos way of life.

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They lived close to a water source in a house or small hut. The bohios were round shaped, made of palm wood and had a thatched palm leaf roof.
The cacique had a larger  rectangular shaped home called caneyes.

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-Origin in Orincono and the Amazon
-Begin migrating through the Caribbean in 900 BC
-Tainos are a subgroup of Arawakan  indians
-They were friendly and peaceful people
-Survived as fisherman and farmers
-Yucayeques were their villages
-The villages were

run by cacique

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Taino artifacts have been discovered in the Antilles. Jewlery ,pottery, dwellings, zumis, batey courts have been found at ceremonial parks in Puerto Rico.

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The Tainos thought the Spaniards were gods.

-Los eventos eran violentos

-Españoles eran abusivos con los impuestos

-Los colonizadores establecieron un sistema de encomiendas

-Eran explotados por los Españoles

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The Tainos were oppressed. Some Tainos were exterminated and others went in boats to live in other places.

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- The Tainos were mistreated by Spanish explorers.

-The Spanish charged high taxes.

-Many events in war

-The Spanish established a system of economy.

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Columbus ordered some Tainos to be enslaved and some were sent as slaves back to Spain.
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