Tai Thi, Christopher Gonzalez, Jocelyn Gomez
The colonizers from Spain on Taino have brought nothing but pain and have left them behind education wise. From when Columbus had taken his first steps into the Taino territory, he took advantage of their abilities because of their bodies and appearances. Mostly taken advantage of
the colonizers had brought their own intentions into making the Taino people their slaves to do their labor. The indigenous community couldn’t really do nor say anything for themselves as they didn’t have a developed language and were still part of the Old world that has yet to gain
more knowledge of growing technology. Colonization brought many diseases that caused many deaths amongst their people thus living and working in such horrible conditions. The Taino community made it past while still keeping their heritage and traditions intact.
Colonizers came to the new world to do multiple things; take all the natural resources from the native people for their own benefit, spread disease and new ways of thinking. A lot of Natives died because of the disease the colonizers carried when voyaging and because native people have
never experienced those things a huge part of them died. Forcing Catholicism on the natives was also a negative impact. Natives had to hide their beliefs and culture because the new comers didn’t think that way and considered it as “savage”. The image above is a good way to represent
the forcing of a new religion. Colonizers believed that discovering the new world and forcing natives to be slaves was the calling of God. They justified the killing of millions of natives with their religion. Catholicism also influenced natives in the way they portrayed their Gods but it still
wasn’t the same. Not only did colonizers take what was valuable to them but they also took their lives and their culture
