Taíno

forced to search for gold in mines and on plantations. If they did not provide enough gold ; they would often lose their hands meaning they would lose their hands. Within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were left on their…

Public opinion is, in many ways, like science. A scientist will hear about or notice something and form an opinion. Good scientists will then continue to look into it to prove or disprove their original opinion, while less determined scientists will stick with what they originally found. Public opinion follows a very similar path. From the early years of school, people are taught that Christopher Columbus is a hero to the people of America. Many accept this notion as it is taught and move on;…

Throughout his time in America, Columbus sent thousands of peaceful Taino “Indians” as he called them, back to Spain for the selling. When Columbus first reached land in 1492, he noted that the people who immediately approached him upon his arrival would make good servants. After this encounter, he captured and sent six…

eruption of of boils, and massive vomiting of blood. Survivors were also usually immune from other smallpox infections. The first smallpox epidemic in the new world beginning 1518 on Hispaniola among the Taino. Within 100 years the Taino were extinct mainly due to smallpox and other diseases. The Taino disaster was repeated many times in the New World. The native people had no experience with quarantines. Their medicines and religious beliefs could not stop the sickness. The epidemics struck…

I think that columbus day should not be celebrated because there are a lot of things wrong things at one point columbus was wanted because he was in debt he owed a lot of people money/gold.Columbus day should not be celebrated also because columbus was so money hungry that he went to spain to a king in queen talked them into giving him gold so he can sail the world he told them he would pay them back when he gets back but columbus was in debt and he used all the money so he decided to enslave…

August of 1492, Columbus traveled with 90 men in 3 ships - the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He managed to make it to San Salvador - present-day Bahamas - he was the first European to make it to the Bahamas. In San Salvador he met the Taino Indians who were open to trading with them. They welcomed them with a feast. The natives were kind of shy,…

resilience of Indigenous people throughout the Americas. Or that we should study and honor the people Columbus enslaved and terrorized: The Tainos. Columbus was a greedy invader and inflicted complete genocide on the Native Americans he encountered. He began the slave trade in early February 1494, enslaving Tainos to Spain. He soon came to realization that the Taino slavery in Spain was unprofitable. One of the obvious reasons not to celebrate Columbus Day is that he did not discover America.…

The Taino people of the Caribbean Islands were a simple people with simple needs. “Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. None of the villages which I saw contained more than twelve or fifteen of them” (Columbus, Journal,…

the dominant language, but because of the heavy influence America has in Puerto Rico their Spanish is mixed with English or how Latinos call it, Spanglish. Moreover, the Spanish from Puerto Rico was imposed upon the inhabitants of the island, and Tainos. In contrast, the Mexican Spanish was originated in the 16th century. Mexicans speak castellano which is Spanish modified by Mizteco. This is the language that the natives Mexican spoke before the Spaniards came. The different influences that…

When you first hear about Christopher Columbus, it's usually when your in about 2nd grade. You learn that he came over from Spain and came to America thinking it was infact India. Then, you seem to think that he is an extraordinary explorer and navigator, yet you don’t really go into the deep details about his voyage and what went on when he came to the New World. It seems as if the older you get, or the higher classes of US History you take, the more you learn about Christopher Columbus’s…