FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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I used to be a U.S. history teacher. In my classes, I would ask students about “that guy some people say discovered America.”
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I brushed that answer away. “Yes, but be specific. What were their names?”
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This is a problem with many U.S. history classes. Huge groups of people have been erased from history.
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However, there is a hopeful one to be found in the strength of the Taíno people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When Christopher Columbus arrived on the Bahamian Island of Guanahani (San Salvador) in 1492, he encountered the Taíno people, whom he described in letters as “naked as the day they were born.” The Taíno had complex hierarchical religious, political, and social systems.
Detailed explanation-2: -Columbus Was Cruel To Native People For the Taíno people, their removal from history began almost immediately. It started when Columbus arrived in the Americas. He landed on the island of Hispaniola. Today, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spanish colonists force the Native Taíno people, on pain of death, to perform almost all labor on the island. Christopher Columbus, who needs to demonstrate the wealth of the New World after finding no gold, loads his ship with enslaved Taíno people.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Traces of indigenous ‘Taíno’ in present-day Caribbean populations: Researchers have produced the first clear genetic evidence that the indigenous people whom Columbus first encountered in the New World still have living descendants today.” ScienceDaily.