The Taino people living in the mountainous regions of the Caribbean Islands faced economic hardship. Because they were by traditional farmers, Taino workers from the Islands and from Florida entered into contracts with farmers in southern New Jersey to supply agricultural labor in the production of vegetables.

These Taino peoples originated in the mountain yucayeke (village) of Jatibonicu' - the village of Great Chief Orocobix of the district of Jatibonicu', which today covers the cities of Orocovis, Barranquitas, Morovis and Aibonito on the Island of Boriken (Puerto Rico).

"We are not, nor are we so bigoted as to have ever claimed to be the Taino Indigenous People of the Caribbean and Florida, but just another small humble branch of the same old Sacred Cojobana tree".

I always seem to cry when I talk about what this man and his people did! The pain of my people is still very deeply rooted within my heart! I only ask the Creator Yaya for forgiveness, for my painful bitterness of this cross that I carry within my heart!

The Taino people are very much alive. They just cover the negative side of how Cristóbal Colón (Columbus) and his Euro-criminal scaused mass genocide against our people. They do not tell the whole truth, they just keep spreading the Caribbean Taino extinction story. The other problem we find is that they do not inform people that the Taino's had lived in the tropical Taino homeland of Florida as the Tribes of the Timucua, Guacara and Calusa or other Taino people living in Bemini (Florida) at the time of the Spanish invasion of 1492-93. We will start a Taino Indigenous book review, to clear out the false story tellers. Most of the books you find do not cover the fact that the Taino people are very much alive.

Yes, the memories do cut like a knife into my heart. But the memory of this animal must be spoken about, for our people have gone too long without telling the world the truth, about this man called Cristóbal Colón, the man that did not discover anything. To the north they speak of him in history books, as a great man. They do not tell how he and his people fed the chopped up body's of our children to their killer dogs. Nor do they talk about the men that, jokingly placed our young Yucayeke(Village) boys in a line and cut them in half with the Toledo swards. See how many of our Taino children that they could cut in half with one single blow! Yes the 500 plus years of pain never goes away. I, as a Taino man must tell the world what it does not want to hear. The truth spoken by one of the real First Americans who survived of the great holocaust of the of the 6 to 8 Million tears.

WE TAINO'S HAVE SURVIVED TO TELL THE WORLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS MAN NAMED COLUMBUS !!!

It seems that the father of Ulele, Cacique Hirrihugua of the Yucayeque (Village) of Ucita, was going to have Juan (John) Ortiz put to death, because the Spaniard Narvaez had cut off his nose and killed his Mother. The daugther Ulele pleaded with her father to spare Ortiz's life. The next day Caciquea Ulele took Ortiz to the nieghboring Guacara Yucayeque (Village) of Cacique (Chief) Moscoso. The rest is nothing but a little white lie told by John Smith or John Ortiz an English manor a Spaniard? The Powhatan people do not have our Taino southern traditions; furthermore we do not speak the Powhatan language of the North-East. We Taino Indigenous Nation of the Caribbean & Florida know the truth of Juan Ortiz. It was not until 500 years later on in November 18th, 1993 that we have made this statement via our supporting evidence of traditional language and customs of the Taino-Timucua people of Bimini (Florida). Please do note that many historians of Florida support these historical facts.

I will speak my heart, as my fallen Grandfathers would ask of me. Many times we lose track of what symbols mean. We, as the true landlords of our mother Atabey (Earth Mother) must always remember the past, so we can live in the present. The old Taino language name for Turtle Island was once called the Amikekia (The People's Island Land of the Great Lord). Today they call it America. We as a United Native American people have never had a flag that represents our people, "La Raza": The Race of Amikekia. The point that must be made here is that we shed our blood for something that was not ours! Many Native American Warriors fell in battle for this colonial symbol. We must respect the memory of those brave Warriors, not the colonial flag of United States OF North America. We must remember the memories of our Sacred Chiefs, like War Chief Guarionex and Chief Joeseph with the tear in his eye. Do you not remember the Indian Wars? Then why do you still think of this colonial symbol as being yours? It is time that all Native people of Amikekia, stand up: for the symbol of the four Directions. This is what rises in the morning, under one Amikekia Nation. The Nation of the Sun father must soon be free! A point of North American Anglo prejudice AMERICA does not mean the United States "OF" North America. We are one people, one race, that family of the rising Sun, shining upon our Sacred Caguana (The Trutle Island). In the morning before the wings sing their honor song, I rise in the west. Hear me sing my morning bird song, holding up my arms like the sacred tree, giving thanks for the birth of the new day, as was shown tome by my honored Grandfathers.

The Taino National Directory List project was started on November 24, 1993, with the support of the Puerto Rican Genealogy Society of Morovis Puerto Rico. The linking of all the Taino families under one National Directory of the Caribbean is a monumental task.

We are asking that if anyone living on the other Caribbean Islands is interested in working with the Committee on this new Elders Project, to please contact our office so that we can make unified effort.

(Statement: To Repatriate All Sacred Objects and Cultural Property) Our Taino Indigenous People's Sacred Objects are being sold at auctions, yet we can not stop them, because of a loophole in the law of not being BIA officially recognized. We are now starting up a fight to stop these people from selling our Sacred things. We need the help of our all Native American Nations to stop this from happening. Can anyone help us Tainos the First Americans of the invasion of Oct 12, 1492. Your fight is our fight, our fight is your fight! Now we Taino's need your brotherly support. Our Southern Colibri (Hummingbird) is calling to his brother the Guaraguao (Great Redhawk) and the Spotted Eagle) its brothers to the north. Our Mayohuacan Drum of the South beats for the union of the Sacred Buffalo Drum. The Longhouse of the Wolf Clan hear our cries, the cries of the 8 Million Taino ancestors - the victims of Columbus!

References: "The Indian Chronicles" by Jose Barreiro Ph.D a Prof. at Cornell University The Taino Documentation Project A Monumental Task We have The "Taino Documentation Project." We have collected many Taino files that we have within our project archives related to the Taino Indigenous people of the Caribbean and United States mainland. The BBS Hummingbird BBS online Service has a major database so call the Board [and] look around. If you have any new Taino documents or other related information files that you would like to share, then please upload, then to the Hummingbird BBS database. Please do it today. The Taino people need the help of lots of good Caribbean/Florida friends.