Christopher Columbus - The Discovery Of America And What Happened After

In 1492 Christopher Columbus and his crew went on a journey that will change history forever. They traveled across the Atlantic to the Carribean, there they met the Taino people. Here’s how the Spanish and the Tainos treated each other and what exactly happened in the next years.

Narration: Dean Moody

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[feralcruz]

We are still alive, the Taino never went extinct

[rafaelramirez]

I am of Taino blood my grandparents are Puerto Rican .. my parents are Puerto Rican ... I was born in Puerto Rico ... what happened in those years ago happened, we can't change that, but like me there are more of Taino blood and we need to continue thriving and make our future ... long live my Taino heritage 🇵🇷

[jakem.]

Riddle me this. How does someone get credited for discovering a place that is already inhabited by people?

[lindsay]

Australian here watching to learn a little more about the world, this is the perspective of history that is so often missed. You are doing great work.

[spebizf]

“Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.”
— Charles Darwin

[jddj]

Being Native American, I need this. My father and his siblings were treated so poorly, he didn't even out down on our birth certificates. Unfortunately, all my grandmother and her brothers are all passed, so talking to them about their lives won't happen. Moving around in the Marine Corps made it difficult to attend family get together and now it is just too late. Luckily the internet is there to help me through my journey.

[michelfernandez]

I am cuban and studied anthropology, the tainos are descendant of the siboney and the guanajatabey the oldest in the Caribbean, having contact with the asians who were the first to transit that area they left the caves, they made boats and populated the smaller islands of the antilles, that's was the tainos.

[tiffanyi]

But the Tainos didn’t go extinct. We are alive. Our blood has been passed on through the generations and what has survived of our language and culture has been held sacred. We are proud and strong! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[xfernowolf]

the history of my people need to be taught more thank you for this

[indigenouslife]

Columbus was actually looking for the Maluku islands in the East Indies to colonize, not India. he was looking for the Moluccan spice islands but got lost and was sailing to Turtle island. That’s why native Americans are called Indians. European countries fought for the Moluccan spice monopoly that eventually came into Dutch hands. It made the Dutch VOC rich and powerful. (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company would be worth about $7.8 trillion today. Founded in 1602, it accomplished globalist capitalism some 400 years before everyone else did. the country we know as India then had a different name.

[lovingsamantha]

I remember hearing of Anacaona growing up. It’s extremely sad that Hispaniola had the worst history of slavery than any other colonized island. They died rapidly from abuse and disease. Then when replaced by African slaves, they faced extreme brutality by the French and Spanish. Rest In Peace ancestors

[santo]

Thank you for sharing, The Taino ppl suffered when the Spaniards and French arrived. This should be shown in school. Queen Anacaona was one of the Tainos that fought back against the terrible Spaniards, she was fearless and fought agains the injustices of the Spanish conquistadors. She was from my hometown Yaguana, Hayti (Leogane, Haiti)🇭🇹

[cjrick]

My great grand mother was half Taino. I didn’t know this until last year. This part of history is very sad but extremely important to be aware of.

Edit: funny how I made all of this up :)

[manuelvelez]

My grandmother was 1/2 Taino and my dna results show as a quarter Taino. This is pretty much the story I was told as a kid. Thanks for not sugar coating too much. Make more Taino videos plz.

[chefroxy]

I can’t imagine anyone seeing Columbus and or the Spaniards and thought to themselves.. “they must be Gods” 🙄🙄

[jamaalw]

Man it would have been wild to be able to see the moment they met face to face

[avencebi]

Having 20% Taino DNA myself I can say the blood still runs through us Puerto Ricans and other Caribbean people's. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[endskeleton]

I'm not Taino, but I have Native American ancestors, and this just gets my soul burning, and my heart pumping.

[nonameadames]

😔😔, I was born in the US but as a kid I spent a few year in the Dominican Republic and got to go to school out there and remember hearing the stories about caonabo and ana caona

[wlfgm]

Long life, health and good luck for Taino people.