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2. Source for information on Taino (Arawak) Indians

3. Arawak Taino Kacike Areito Making of a Kacike Ceremony (July 26, 2014) This was a beautiful day for family, friends and the extended Arawak Taino community

4. The Taino, an Arawak subgroup, were the first native peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola.

5. Banes was an important area for the native Taino people before the conquest by Columbus

6. “Boricua” was the name Puerto Rico’s indigenous Indians, the Taino, gave to their island

7. Taino (Arawak) IndiansThe Taino, also known as the Arawaks, migrated from the Caribbean coast of South America, moving northward along the island chain of the lesser Antilles to the greater Antilles, around 1200 ce

8. As Arawak Taino, we now have a seat of representation at the United Nations World Indigenous Forum

9. Bammy is a flat round bread made from cassava, and was a staple in the Taino diet

10. The island Arawak, or Taino, were the Indians the explorer Christopher Columbus met on his first journey to the Americas

11. We set up a booth to share and educate our Arawak Taino people from the island of Boriken

12. ‘By the way, I say Arawak / Taino Indians because I was brought up reading history books which called the native Indians Arawaks.’

13. The meaning behind Arawakan is the spoken language of the Taino which are the natives of the Caribbean Islands

14. A Frenchman named Jacques Ie Moyne painted the Taino-Timucua of northern Florida cooking their meat and fish on a Babracot in 1564

15. ‘By the way, I say Arawak / Taino Indians because I was brought up reading history books which called the native Indians Arawaks.’

16. Bipeds of Brookland: Carmen Torruella-Quander Carmen painting a portrait of her great grandmother, who was an indigenous Taino Woman in the Dominican Republic

17. A Frenchman named Jacques Ie Moyne painted the Taino-Timucua of northern Florida cooking their meat and fish on a Babracot in 1564

18. According to Puerto Rican folklore, a ceiba tree is believed to possess the spirits of the indigenous Taino population that formerly thrived on the Caribbean island.

19. The word itself it believed to be taken from a Taino Indian name meaning “Babracot”, which is best described by cooking meat very slowly over a wooden structure

20. The word "barbecue" comes from the Spanish barbacoa or the French Babracot, both of which were picked up from the Taino and Arawak tribes of Haiti and Guiana [source: Steingarten]

21. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the English word for "barbecue" to the Spanish word barbacoa, which is, in turn, a variation of Babracot, a word that comes to us from the Haitian Taino

22. The word barbecue itself, most scholars believe, takes its origin from the Taino Indian word Babracot, which described the lashed-together wooden structure on which meat was smoked slowly over a grate in the Caribbean.

23. See Article History Alternative Title: Antillean Arawak Taino, Arawakan -speaking people who at the time of Christopher Columbus ’s exploration inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.