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The original Indian population, the "Tainos", was almost wiped out by the Spanish.
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Columbus kidnapped 6 Tainos to take back to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
Vito de la Cruz: I Don't Have To Celebrate Columbus Vito de la Cruz 2011
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Why Columbus' shadow endures and exceeds that of others including, the Tainos and Arawaks who were decimated within half a century of his arrival in the Caribbean is because his voyages accomplished two things.
Vito de la Cruz: I Don't Have To Celebrate Columbus Vito de la Cruz 2011
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You could have included the Tainos read Columbus' log book and their enslavement and virtual destruction within 25 years of Columbus' arrival.
Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Haiti is the place in the Western Hemisphere where the white settlers first committed genocide - they mostly annihilated the entire native population of Tainos before transporting Africans they enslaved to work the gold mines and sugar plantations.
Avatar parallels: The Warrior Mother, Vodun and the Sky People 2010
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Actually, it was de las Casas who was the pioneer of slavery, in that he proposed the importation of Africans to do the work that was killing the Tainos in the Caribbean.
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Actually, it was de las Casas who was the pioneer of slavery, in that he proposed the importation of Africans to do the work that was killing the Tainos in the Caribbean.
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The original Haitians were called the Arawaks or Tainos.
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The aboriginal inhabitants of Jamaica, the Tainos, kept dogs.
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Best line in what I read: The first lines of the novel: They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.
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