taino indians

A myth that explains the origin of the sea, the forest, and the island now called Puerto Rico.

Provides information on the island country of Puerto Rico, in simple text with illustrations, and takes the reader back five hundred years, when native people called Taino lived there, and includes information on their history, culture, and values.

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

This myth explains the origin of the sea, the forest, and the island now called Puerto Rico.

Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.

The gourd containing the bow and arrow of the great departed hunter Yayael produces a torrent of water that becomes the world's ocean.

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.