-
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...
- 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...
-
known as the
nitaínos. They were in
charge of
keeping the
naborias in
check as well as
leading them into battle. Finally,
above the
nitaínos were the caciques...
-
organization was
composed of two tiers: The
nitaínos at the top and the
naborias at the bottom. The
nitaínos were
considered the
nobles of the tribes. They...
- Guava, near the present-day city of Léogâne, Haiti; it was
divided into 26
nitaínos. The
situation among the
native people was that Bohechío, the
brother of...
-
language varieties listed by
Loukotka (1968)
Island languages Taino /
Nitaino - once
spoken in the
Conquest days on the
Greater Antilles Islands of Cuba...
-
Arawak people of
South America. Taíno
society was
divided into two classes:
Nitaino (nobles) and the
Naboria (commoners). Both were
governed by
chiefs known...
-
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...
-
loosely feudal with the
following Taíno classes: naboría (common people),
nitaíno' (sub-chiefs, or nobles), bohique, (shamans priests/healers), and the cacique...
-
Archeological evidence suggests a
class structure in
which the
higher class nitaínos (chiefs, warriors, artists) were
believed to have
power over the lower...
