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Below him were
lesser caciques presiding over
villages or
districts and
nitaínos, an
elite class in Taíno society. The Taíno of
Hispaniola were an Arawak...
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Arawak people of
South America. Taíno
society was
divided into two classes:
Nitaino (nobles) and the
Naboria (commoners). Both were
governed by
chiefs known...
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attributes and the
boundaries of the
territory they occupied. The term
nitaino or nitayno, from
which Taíno derived,
referred to an
elite social class...
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traditional stories talk
about the
Taino Queen leaving annually followed by her
nitaino her main city of
Yaguana to go to
Gonayibo and thus is the
origin of Haitian...
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language varieties listed by
Loukotka (1968)
Island languages Taino /
Nitaino - once
spoken in the
Conquest days on the
Greater Antilles Islands of Cuba...
- and
transported to
Hacienda del Toa.
There he was
humiliated before his
nitainos by
being forced to
become the governor's
personal servant.
Caguax died...
- Agueibaná" Borrero. The two
kasike maintain a dual
citizenship pact, with
Nitaíno Councils ****isting both
leaders in
their respective affairs.
Iukaieke Guainía...
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loosely feudal with the
following Taíno classes: naboría (common people),
nitaíno' (sub-chiefs, or nobles), bohique, (shamans priests/healers), and the cacique...
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Puerto Rico. At the head of each
tribe was a
cacique who,
along with the
nitaínos,
governed each of the yucayeques, or
villages of the island. It has been...
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rights as a
subject of the
colony and was
still recognized as a
chief or
nitaíno by the
other indigenous people. For this reason, he
served as a foreman...
