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The Taíno conquest was committed against the Taíno Indigenous people by the Spanish during their colonization of the Caribbean during the 16th century. [3] The population of the Taíno before the arrival of the Spanish Empire on the island of Hispaniola in 1492 [4] (which Christopher Columbus baptized as Hispaniola), is estimated at between 10,000 and 1,000,000.
A common example of a paper genocide is that of the Taíno, an indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. [3] Following the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Taíno population began to significantly decline in the ensuing years, primarily due to virgin soil epidemics and the enslavement and harsh treatment of the Taíno by Spanish colonizers in such labor-intensive fields as gold ...
It was he who dealt most brutally with the Taíno people. The Taino population declined by up to 95% in the century after the Spanish arrival, [13] [14] [15] from a pre contact population of tens of thousands [16] to 8,000,000. [15] [17] Many authors have described the treatment of the Taino in Hispaniola under the Spanish Empire as genocide ...
The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1137-X. Keegan, William; Carlson, Lisbeth (2008). Talking Taino: Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory). Fire Ant Books. ISBN 978-0817355081. Sauer, Carl Ortwin (1966).
Reconstruction of a Taíno village in El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba. Scholars have faced difficulties researching the native inhabitants of the Caribbean islands to which Columbus voyaged in 1492, since European accounts cannot be read as objective evidence of a native Caribbean social reality. [16]
Taino reenactment in Puerto Rico. The Taíno, an Arawak people, were the major population group throughout most of the Caribbean. Their culture was divided into three main groups, the Western Taíno, the Classic Taíno, and the Eastern Taíno, with other variations within the islands.
7. He first landed in the Bahamas. When Columbus reached the New World on October 12, 1492, his ships landed on one of the islands of the Bahamas, probably Watling Island, which he mistook for Asia.
The UCTP reiterated their sentiment against symbols representing figures in colonialist history in criticisms of a statue devoted to Columbus that was brought to Arecibo. The UCTP president said the more than 350-foot statue was a "tribute to genocide, colonialism, religious intolerance, racism, gender violence, and white supremacy." [11]