Taino Culture In The New Americans

Tairona or Tayrona means “males” or “sons of the Tiger”. The Tayrona indigenous are located in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia. This is the highest coastal mountain range in the world. Their descendants go by the names of the Wiwa, the Arhuacos, the Kankuamo and the Kogi, they all live in the Sierra Nevada. When the Spanish got to Colombia land in the sixteenth century, they made this group of indigenous move to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, making that land their property. It has to be bad that people from another place come with authority and take you move from your own land but for the Tayronas this was their salvation. When they move to the mountain, they save their life from the system of rule that Spanish brought to the region and from an unseen killer, disease. It may seem unfair but was the best that could happen to them.

An alternate history in which European’s did not desire a Western route to Asia would greatly affect the encounter between Europeans and the native American people. In such a world, Christopher Columbus’s motivations would be primarily religious in motivation, in contrast for the desire for monetary gain and fame. Conceivably, the encounter between native American peoples would have been viewed as a great discovery rather than an obstacle to their primary one. With such a mindset, and without the expectation of riches, it is feasible that Columbus may have treated the Taino people very differently. In the absence of the pressure for monetary gain from Spain, there would be less incentive for Columbus to enslave, and eventually decimate the

In his voyage he came upon the Caribbean Islands, and a Native American tribe called the Taino. When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) the Taino Indians were gentle and peaceful and traded with Columbus. Christopher Columbus took the Native Americans for

What we do know is they worship gods and spirits that inhabited natural objects. It is likely that they had no concept of slavery and were naively welcoming to the Europeans; Christopher Columbus himself said the Tainos Indians were friendly people. Columbus got the impression that the Indians thought him and his crew were sent from heaven. Indians had no use for the gold and treasures the Europeans had come to search for in the New World so they had no reason to worry that the new comers had come to plunder their riches. Instead the Indians probably gave gifts and tributes to the new arrivals. In the conquest of Mexico a young Spanish explorer by the name of Hernan Cortez deceived the native Mexica or Aztecs as they are commonly called into gifting him large quantities of food as wells as a fine golden disk. Playing on the Mexica’s belief that Cortez and his men had been sent by one of their gods, Cortez put on quite a show to convince the natives that he was in fact sent by the gods. It is apparent that the Europeans played on the beliefs of the natives to take advantage of, enslave and rob these people of not only their possessions but their lives as

Though the Taino were peaceful people, they faced dangers when the Europeans came to their island. One danger they faced was, that the Americans and Europeans have to eat Sea Grapes,Brids Eggs and even Snails. Tainos and made slaves of many more of Europeans disease. The Taino’s lives were not completely carefree. Their life spain's must have been short, because about half of all the

he darkness of evening slowly blankets the land. The harvest moon, gowned in silver attire floats in a sea of air, peeks from behind a misty veil. Below, a wisp of smoke dances upward toward the heavens. There is a feeling of ancient magic as the circle is cast in the clearing. The lone worshipper walks the circle, methodically lighting the colored candles she has placed in each of the cardinal directions: North is green and represents represents earth, the east candle is yellow and represents air, South is red and represents fire and west is blue and represents water. As each candle is she invokes the spirits of the Watchtowers. The circle is cast to create a hallowed ground, a place that exists and does not exist simultaneously. She

Most of this group’s people spoke Shoshonean or Uto-Aztecan dialects (bommok, Paiute and Ute are some examples) and they forged for nuts, roots and seeds. They also were said to have hunted for small mammals, lizards and snakes to consume them in diet and use them for skin. These people were frequently on the move so they lived in easy to build compact wikups made of willow saplings, poles, brushes and leaves. Their social gathering were believed to be informal with small groups and settlement being impernant and with communal

The few surviving Tainos took off to the mountains for survival. The first two important elements of whom and what makes up Puerto Rican people, is here. The Taino Indians are 1/3 of the element. The second element, were the Spaniards.

Since 5000 BCE indigenous Arawak, Taino and Ciboney people have inhabited the island where Haiti is located. Around 300 BCE, the indigenous began to settle and establish small farming towns. In these small towns, the main economy was farming, fishing and the trade of various luxury goods such as gold and jewelry. The indigenous people called their island Quisqueya. As the years went by, the indigenous developed their society more. However, their growth was interrupted by Spanish conquest.

The culture and traditions of the Native Hawaiian people are being neglected and destroyed. Hawai‘i has become home to hundreds of different ethnic groups coexisting in one place that holds it’s very own unique and distinct culture. The unfortunate side effect of this multiculturalism is the loss of the true Hawaiian culture. Western interference desecrates our sacred sites and artifacts, for things like telescopes and shopping malls. Foreigners capitalize on Hawaiian practices such as hula, making a mockery of the tradition. The state and counties of Hawaii grant large amounts of monies to non-Hawaiian concepts. Even though there are many individuals and organizations across the state of Hawai‘i that try to maintain the Hawaiian practices,

When Christopher Columbus first discovered America, the first Indians he met were the Tainos. They had no clothes and no weapons, and he believed that they were meant to be ruled and could be set to work and in the end adopt Europeans customs. When the conquistadors arrived, they conquered village after village, bringing with them violence and pestilence. The Indian population was nearly wiped out due to disease. But in the midst of these terrors, many European men had sexual relations with Indian women, and began a new population of mixed ancestry called Mestizos. Though Europeans deemed Native Americans inferior, they helped start a new culture and even played a vital role in trade in the Americas.

The history of the United States with respects to the time of pre-European contact concerns a history of Native Americans. The history of Native Americans is a history which is often almost totally completely ignored with history is being taught in the United States today. The United States’ Native American people were descendants of the first inhabitants of the American continent who had crossed over into North America through the Bering Straits from North- Eastern Asia. The movement was a continuous series of migration over an extended period. In the 1980 census, the Indian population within the American population was 1,418,195, with 861 living in reservations and treaty lands.(Bailyn, Bernard. The ideological origins of the American Revolution.Harvard

When Columbus and his men arrived to the islands, he noticed that the natives were generous, and accommodating because they willingly traded everything they owned and brought them such things like: food, water, and gifts. Since the beginning the natives offered all of their hospitality to Columbus

Native American culture is recognized in the United States. It has over five hundred tribes and village, the Native American culture has been spread throughout the entire globe. The main religions and the main traditions of the Native Americans were based on the culture of Animism. Animism is a commonly shared doctrine or belief of the indigenous people and many other Indian Tribes that have been found in North America. There is an enormous amount of languages that the Native Americans speak. “There were as many as nine hundred thousand inhabitants with over three hundred languages” (“Native American Blog”). Some of the federally recognized tribes vary in population and they vary in land-base. Many of the tribes all have their own culture, their own language, and their own history. Every tribe has its own unique customs. Some of the tribes even have distinct styles of housing, dressing, and eating.

The raiding of the Tainos communities by the Kalinagos warriors in which Tainos women were taken as wives for the young Kalinagos warriors. However, the Tainos women were able to transfer some of their custom to the Kalinagos society, even though their husband spoke a different language from them. The use of tobacco was common in both Amerindian group (Tainos and Kalinagos) and the painting of their bodies with dyes which was a favourite pastime of both groups of Amerindian.