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Taino - Atrocities

Updated: Oct 21, 2021

“Discovery of the Caribbean” - 1940

Artist Credit: Cuban artist Mario Carreño - (1913 - 1999)

Native Taino woman holding #guamo, #conchshelltrumpet


Christopher Columbus said of the Taino, the indigenous people of the Caribbean,

“They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil…they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are gentle.” Within a few short years, the Spanish colonizers had tortured, enslaved and executed the Taino to almost extinction. #WeAreStillHere





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