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I'm just bringing it up because I just started reading Peoples history. Arawaks the natives in Hispaniola, Cuba, Bahamas(if I'm correct, I started reading it early in the morning)h,. They were wiped off, used as slaves. I think it was 150 thousand of them...its a random guess, I totally forgot. All dead. That is amazingly sad.
You're not necessarily correct. The Arawaks were a native people from Venezuela, who then emigrated to the Caribbean through the lesser Antilles. They settled there and then the Greater Antilles (Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Cuba and the Bahamas.) The ones in the lesser Antilles became the Caribs, and the ones in the Greater Antilles, became Taínos. Taíno was the first word they spoke to Columbus when he arrived in Hispaniola in 1492. It meant 'peace' and was later a word identifying their people by the Spanish.
The most civilized of them came from what's now the Dominican Republic (Hispaniola) and Puerto Rico, (My country.) *where the most cities have been found. They are sometimes mistaken as Arawaks, because they spoke an Arawak language, but in reality, they were a similar, but different people and culture.
Their name for Puerto Rico, was Borinquen and for the people, Boricua. Which means land and people of the valiant and noble lord. My screen name is the Spanish congregation of Boricua.
Also, they all did not die. Yes, most of them were murdered through slavery and disease, but many did survived and moved to mountainous areas. In Puerto Rico, they were given their freedom after most of them died through slavery, and West Africans took their place. After that, the remaining mixed with the Spaniards and Africans and their descendants became Mestizos (Spanish and Indian.) and Zambos. (African and Indian.)
This website explains their culture and their art is in permanent exhibit in New York City in El Museo del Barrio. *The Taínos
(Edited by Borincano at 7:24 pm on July 29, 2002)
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Oh, sorry about my mistake. Thanks for the information though!
It's ok. Anyway, you're welcome. I like spreading information around just as much as I like to learn new things. Take care.
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You think that's sad? What the Americans and Nazis did were even WORSE!
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Yes, that's true, but any loss of life is sad, no matter who committed the crime. A crime is a crime.
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Yes, I think its sad, but that doesn't mean I don't think things that happened during the holocaust and US terrorism is sad. Any situation or event like this is sad.
