Taino Indians

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After Columbus first established his American colony at La Isabela some conflict arose. Everything started out alright, there was a period of coexistence, until Spaniards removed men from their villages. They took these men to work in gold mines and plantations, but not having those men around kept the Taino from planting crops. In turn, they began to starve, fall prey to smallpox and any other European disease, fight with the Spaniards or just flee. Some Taino women began marrying Spaniards. After all of this there was not a lot of Taino anything. In the early 1500s there were just small pocket glimpses of pure Taino survival. There are lots of places or people that could call themselves Taino, because their ancestors were or they still follow

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