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The Taino People of the Caribbean Are NOT Extinct

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« Reply #30 on: March 01, 2008, 06:48:17 am »








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In the middle of a housing shortage, current planning in Cuba discourages the building of bohios. They are considered symbols of the "past" and associated with "under-development." In Cuba, for many years, the bohio-dwelling Guajiro was isolated and subject to harsh and arbitrary mistreatment at the hands of the Rural Guard. Eastern Guajiros in Cuba today have more access to modern conveniences but complain about government regimentation over their agricultural practices and market. They still build many bohios, some quite comfortable, out of the Royal palm.


 
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Friar Roman Pane', who wrote the earliest Native cosmology in the Americas, (Macorix field work commissioned by Columbus: Winter, 1493) uses the term, "anguilas," or eels, to describe what his informants spoke of as a large, slippery, river animal "with a form similar to a woman. Given the centrality and abundance of the manatee for the peoples of the Greater Antilles, it might be assumed that the old story refers to the manatee, rather than the eel, in this fecund context.


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