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      1.  Introduction; New Jersey Hispanic BBS Computer Bulletin Boards
      2.  Native American  BBS - A BBS devoted to the American Indians,
          the Caribbean Hispanics and their Taino Indian heritage.
      3.  The Colibri provides a Taino Genealogy Database for its people.
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     A TAINO NATIVE AMERICAN BBS

           I recently received a message  on my board from Peter Torres
      regarding the Hummingbird BBS Service. He wanted to make sure I
      included information about the board being part of SmartNet and
      has the  goal of bringing Native Americans and Hispanics together
      and helping them get back in touch with their roots.
                With my nose for news I called Peter to find out what's
      going on. The Hummingbird Bulletin Board Network is ( run by the
      Network Sysops: Peter Torres and Fred Alvarado of Vineland, NJ )
      one of only four Native American boards in the United Sstates. The
      Colibri is a major  Native American information center and  that's
      how the conferences are set up.  "We're hooked up with some other
      Native American boards in the U.S.A. including  Alaska  and South
      America.  So we keep abreast of things and we pull  All Native
      American and Hispanics people together to give them a place where
      they can communicate. You see there are a lot of people who are
      part Native American, like the Taino people from the Caribbean
      Islands and Florida. What seems to happen is they loose track of
      their roots and when they want to locate their families, we help
      them find them, if they're looking for their roots.  Sometimes
      they call with spiritual questions, we try to help them find
      those answers too.", says Mr. Torres....
                 The North American Natives Conference and the Taino
      Conference on SmartNet originated from Colibri BBS and has become
      a major source and file  base. Beyond the BBS, Mr. Torres is the
      Director of the Taino Inter-Tribal Council Inc. of New Jersey, he
      officially represents the Taino Indian people living in New Jersey
      and the Colibri BBS of Vineland, " We give Native Americans and
      Hispanics support. What we're trying to do is put computers on all
      the U. S. reservations and give the Hispanic Communities within the
      United States tech help.  We're trying to build something using a
      modern day instrument to better communicate with the people, and
      keep the people tied to issues and things of major importance to
      the Indian and Hispanic nations".
            In addition to supporting the Native American and Hispanic
      communities The Hummingbird Bulletin Board is a great source for
      students doing research on the subject.  So file this information
      away for when school starts.  Every time a teacher let us pick the
      subject of a report or composition I always chose a subject that
      I had access to "special" information on.  Peter says "There are
      loads of echo Mail tech conferences, files and stuff they can get
      a hold of".  So check out another great resource of New Jersey.
            The BBS number is (609) 563-1682 (Vineland, New Jersey) The
      Computer Network does operate on PCBoard 15.21, with an IBM 486 DX2
      50 MHZ  main server and IBM 386 DX 33 nodes, supports baud rates
      2400 to 14,400. They have SmartNet, NATIVnet, DisputeNet, FriendsNet
      InterNational mail echo exchanges.
















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