Why we don’t call our indigenous ancestors Tainos.
Christopher Columbus first encountered indigenous people in Bahamá (the Spaniards later changed the name to The Bahamas). This happened during his first trip in 1492. He writes that the people there called themselves Lucayans, not Tainos. After his second voyage in 1493, he started referring to all the natives in the Caribbean islands as Tainos, […]
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