Historias de Taino

In 1889 Kingston, a dress is never just a dress. Sometimes, it's a map to freedom. Cecelia is a talented apprentice seamstress with a needle, thread, and a dangerous secret. With colonial oppression suffocating her family and a massive labor strike threatening to tear Jamaica apart, she knows their only hope is to escape to Panama. The key? A coded ancestral dress ,the Bandana of Madras, that hides a forgotten Maroon-Taino smuggling route. As the city prepares for the grandest festival of the year, Cecelia realizes the Midnight Masquerade is the perfect cover. But with her brother Marcus's safety on the line, the watchful eyes of the merchant tailor Mr. Sterling, and a complicated romance with Al pulling at her focus, one wrong stitch could unravel the entire plan. At the masquerade, everyone wears a disguise. But Cecelia is sewing her survival.

With this story we see a fictional perspective of the Taino Spirituality. Is a story about a girl who get lost in the woods in spiritual grounds. Cover Artwork by ASR Picture taking by JRC

This is not a book I'm just showing off my quinceanera❣️

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A short story that weaves a narrative of a courageous Taino young woman and what happens to her and her people at Columbus' arrival. Her name is Yuiza and this is how I imagined her story went.

Story about envy and how can change who we are.

Yuracan is a Taino God who has had enough of humans. Will he smite them? Will he play a game of Botey ball against them? Find out in Yuracan and the Lost Winds.

After a tragic event in their childhood, twins Amara and Armando are driven away from the place they used to call their home. Years later, the possibility of another loss is what brings them back. Amara can see faceless mythological beings that others -including her brother- are not able to detect. The eerie gift will help them uncover the mystery surrounding a plethora of disappearances tied to the area around their old home; and finally understand why their superstitious grandmother is so wary of lurkers among the trees.

Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Chronicles of Narnia. Irene Rosales Vivas is so stoked for summer to start. She daydreams about playing on her gameboy and 123 Pescao with her little brother, Alejandro, and hanging out with friends at the beaches of San Juan. Then her mami packs up the whole family in Papi's car and sets their destination for her estranged abuelo's home in Camuy. Upon meeting her abuelo, she notices how dismissive he is to her mami and how he makes everything about himself, souring her impression of the man. The last thing Irene expected was to find a huge mirror covered in Taíno markings in his office. When she and Alejandro touch it, a portal bursts to life. And to make things worse, her abuelo pushes them both through it, thrusting them into a world of magic, monsters, and where the gods are as real as you and me. Speaking of gods, on Irene and Alejandro's arrival, she accidentally cuts her hand on a statue which awakens an ancient Cacica, a warmongering chieftain whose magic was so powerful she had to be sealed away in stone. Now the gods have tasked them with the responsibility of finding and destroying the Cacica's amulet, the item that allows her to summon and control hupías, bad spirits which wreak havoc on the living. Sounds easy, right? Irene and Alejandro hoped so. Otherwise, the Cacica's first order of business would be sacrificing them to restore their abuelo to his prime so he can stand at her side and conquer everything in their path.

"Hummingbird Hymns" focuses on Trinidadian-specific content, such as Trinidadian authors, stories, culture, spirituality, arts, and more! Please note: Hummingbird Hymns is not Trinidadian-Indigenous exclusive. We will be focusing on all Trinidadian voices because of the unique, shared and welcoming culture.

Sooo I just watched Wakanda Forever and.... I cried a lot But I think we can all agree that Namor is fineeeeeee. So here we are making a fanfic of him. This fanfic is going to be adding the Taino culture (because I'm puertorican) and the name of the god you see on the title is the god of sun of the taínos, and this will be a male reader because we all love a twink Latino. You are the sun of a god at least that's what you're 30 moms tells you but your adoptive dad is a Cacique you were basically a prince until...

Alberto is the son of Daniel Rodriguez the youngest U.S. 1st star general in decades and an unknown mothers. For the first sixteen years of his life he has done all he could not to bring disruption to his family, but on his sixteenth birthday something happened, his birth mother comes to greet him revealing she is the Goddess Hel and Alberto is her son.

Carmen Guerrero, a Taíno girl, wakes up in a world that she doesn't remember. One that she doesn't know. It was a forest of green, rain, but in a way, it felt like home. One moment, she is surrounded by the forest, the ocean, and the sounds of nature greeting her as if she were an old friend, and the next she wakes up in unfamiliar terrain-wet forest, trees taller than the eye can see, and a treaty older than time, set in stone with blood and trust. (Jacob Black X Carmen Guerrero(OC)

A narrative anthology based on the American Oracle and my life as the Amsterdam Terror - my God, God of Jocks

One girl. One island. One chance of survival.

a short story about a NY neighborhood in the 60s that deals with race relations and hate crimes

This story follows how one woman turned into the most feared and well known of Caribbean folklore characters - La Diablesse (loosely translated as She Devil) a creature of fantastic beauty with a telltale cloven hoof that lures men to their death.

This is a story using my indigenous Taino heritage language. Each story with a lesson about life.

There are rumors on the island that a woman bewitches men and all cruel humans. She has her feet backwards.