At a time of first contact between Europe & the Americas, the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean covered the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles, almost of the Greater Antilles in addition to the Bahamas, the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles, the Ciguayo and Macorix of parts of Hispaniola, and the Guanahatabey of western Cuba. The Kalinago create maintained an identity as an indigenous people, with a reserved territory in Dominica.
Some scholars consider it important to distinguish the Taíno from the neo-Taíno nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola, and the Lucayan of the Bahamas and Jamaica. Linguistically or culturally these differences extended from various cognates or classification of canoe: canoa, piragua, cayuco to distinct languages. Languages diverged even over short distances. before these groups often had distinctly non-Taíno deities such(a) as the goddess Jagua, strangely enough the god Teju Jagua is a major demon of indigenous Paraguayan mythology. Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by label of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the earn of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish.
Thus, since the neo-Taíno had far more diverse cultural input and a greater societal and ethnic heterogeneity than the true high Taíno Rouse, 1992 of Boriquen Puerto Rico a separate member is gave here. A broader Linguistic communication combine is Arawakan languages. The term Arawak Aruaco is said to be derived from an insulting term meaning "eaters of meal" given to them by mainland Caribs. In recast the Arawak legend explains the origin of the Caribs as offspring of a putrid serpent.
The social a collection of things sharing a common qualities of the neo-Taíno, generalized from Bartolomé de las Casas, appeared to have been generally feudal with the following Taíno classes: naboría common people, nitaíno' sub-chiefs, or nobles, bohique, shamans priests/healers, and the cacique chieftains, or princes. However, the neo-Taínoto have been more relaxed in this respect.