I only have 2,000 characters so if you want to read this in full please check out my Tumblr down below. This is part 2 of me talking about Taino people and Christopher Columbus.

You see when Chrisdick came over, we welcomed him.

We had no idea who these people were, we had no reason to be hostile. Why did we gave them silver and gold? We had no need for it. We lived off the island, we hunt, swam, slept outside, we had no desire for silver and gold. We didn’t had an economy and we didn’t had the tools to make the types of weapons or armour the Spaniards had so we just gave them the stuff.

Not only did we gave them silver and gold, we also gave them our woman and virgins. It was to help with relations. Our woman would go with them to this new land, and return us with information, new families, and wonders of the outside...that never happened. Giving the Spaniards silver, gold, and woman, was all in the hopes they would give us something in return, but the only thing they gave was diseases that made everyone sick. They took, and took, and took, and then they left.

When we refused to give them anymore, that’s when things got violent. They pillage our village’s, killed the strongest and told the weak to go digging for more silver and gold. That was when the slavery began, when we didn’t want to give anymore, they decided to take instead.

How could we stop them? They had guns and we had spears and arrows. They made us sick and we couldn’t fight back. They already won the war before it started.

Why do you think Puerto Rico is called Puerto Rico? It translates to “Port of Riches” because of how rich it made the Spaniards. Once they were done being rich and taking from our land, they took us instead so we could work for them. An estimated 7-8 million Taino people died in just a few decades.

https://jessequinones.tumblr.com/post/724335154325307392/lets-talk-about-slavery-with-the-taino-people

#indigenous #taino #PuertoRico #christophercolumbus #slavery

‘COLUMBUS KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING…’
Delving beneath the surface of the established narrative to reveal the genuine brilliance and bravery of #ChristopherColumbus.
https://arktos.com/2023/07/03/in-defense-of-the-age-of-exploration-part-four/

Maybe #ChristopherColumbus is making his way to Fuerteventura? #Sailing #Ship

@TSAguilar @georgetakei #ChristopherColumbus received funding from Spain on the promise that he would find a new, westward route to the Indies. Even after mutiny by his own staff, he continued to lobby, write publications, and insist the new lands and peoples he found were “Indios” or else he would lose his financial contracts. Columbus refused to acknowledge he found a new continent. That credit would later go to Amerigo Vespucci, hence “America.”

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For #StandingStoneSunday this is the Arrival Monolith in #Baiona, #Spain, not far from #Vigo. This stone was only erected in 1965 and it serves to commemorate the arrival of the caravel #LaPinta to this small port in 1493. #Pinta was one of the three ships of #ChristopherColumbus on his expedition to the New World the year before, and it was Pinta's return that broke news of the discoveries to Europe.

#History #Travel #TravelPhotography #Photography #Bayona #Galicia

Christopher Columbus (l. 1451-1506 CE, also known as Cristoffa Corombo in Ligurian and Cristoforo Colombo in Italian) was a Genoese explorer (identified as Italian) who became famous in his own time as the man who discovered the New World and, since the 19th century CE, is credited with the discovery of North America, specifically the region comprising the United States.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Christopher_Columbus/ #ChristopherColumbus #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #MarcoPolo

The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean. It is also recognized as the direct cause for the cultures of the various indigenous people of those regions being replaced and often eradicated.
https://www.worldhistory.org/European_Colonization_of_the_Americas/ #ChristopherColumbus #EuropeanColonizationoftheAmericas #FrancisDrake

Happy Columbus Day!
#Blondie #NiñaNoodles #PintaPepperoni #SantaMariaManicotti #America #Columbus #ChristopherColumbus #ColumbusDay #ColumbusDay2021

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/blondie/s-2576700

The Truth About Columbus - Knowing Better Refuted | BadEmpanada

https://youtu.be/OaJDc85h3ME

#ChristopherColumbus #KnowingBetter #BadEmpanada

George Monbiot on the true and bloody legacy of Christopher Columbus, the British Empire, #colonialism and #imperialism.

⚠️ Video contains disturbing footage ⚠️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=UtBKDMN2U4s

#ColumbusDay #ChristopherColumbus #BritishEmpire #capitalism #genocide

(via @doorbraak)

standing on them...

#christophercolumbus #statue #standing #nativeamericans #genocide #tweet #screenshot

standing on them...

#christophercolumbus #statue #standing #nativeamericans #genocide #tweet #screenshot