taino

There is no ambiguity in the record that the Taino were destroyed due to policies Columbus initiated.

My rough map of the article: The Taino (native Caribbean tribe) was thought to have been wiped out completely.

Some examples: Spaniards enslave the Taino of Hispaniola, who are ravaged by diseases with lethality and infectiousness boosted by the malnutrition and stress of their enslavement.

They discovered the Taino instead bred with the new settlers.

The Taino likely migrated from South American tribes called Arawak.

And About 14% of Puerto Ricans today have Taino DNA.

> My rough map of the article: The Taino (native Caribbean tribe) was thought to have been wiped out completely.

Ignoring the evidence that the enslaved Taino to some extent integrated with the imported slaves, the slaves made up 90% of the population and likely an even higher percentage of the workforce.

My main point was just that there are native Hawaiians in significant numbers at all - there are some descendants of Taino in Puerto Rico, but very few and it's been centuries since they were independent.

Stealing land from Taino people is as much unacceptable as confiscation of land of french citizens, and i am sure if there were some large Taino empire then it could protect property rights of Taino people against colonialists, but that is centuries before Haiti revolution, and since that property rights were clearly established.

> confiscation of their property and land Observe the colonial/imperial mindset - gun-trotting French sail to the Caribbean and steal land from Taino Indians, and kidnap and enslave Africans to do the work.

You can't give him too much credit, especially given that he was considered a monster even by contemporary monsters like Isabella I of Spain, his sponsor, who founded the Spanish Inquisition and still thought his treatment of the Taino natives was unconscionable.

In this it describes the Taino becoming "almost drunk" off it.

There are even popular sayings like "Se me salio lo Taino" (_I left my internal Taino to come out_) which acknowledge the perpetuation in PR genetic pool of native people.

There is no such thing as a “Dominican” or “Bahamian” unless you are referring to full blooded native Taino, of which none exist.

Three thousand people, that's it!" Columbus's second voyage kidnapped 500 Taino from Hispaniola alone and 300 of them died on the way back to Europe, and that was just the start of things.

And the Taino, to the best of my knowledge, didn't practice any form of human sacrifice at all.

It is also accepted that even if he did not intend to wipe out the Taino, he bore responsibility.

Virtually every Puerto Rican consider themselves to have Taino/Indigenous blood.