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Thursday, August 12, 2004, 10:36

Cuba's forgotten tribe experiencing a rebirth

Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News

"I want to eliminate the myth once and for all that the Indians were extinguished in Cuba," says Alejandro Hartmann, a historian and Taino expert. For years, anthropologists widely believed this island's once-powerful Taino Indians were exterminated shortly after Christopher Columbus sailed into a pristine bay and walked the steep, thickly forested terrain more than 500 years ago.

With a new museum, academic conferences and other projects, Hartmann and a group of experts also are trying to nurture a nascent sense of identity among the hundreds--perhaps thousands--of Taino descendants who are scattered along Cuba's impoverished eastern tip. >>continue

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