On October 11, 1492 we greated Columbus and 3 of his ships on our Carribean Island. The ships carried 84 Spaniards, 4 Italians, 1 Portugues, and 1 African. We called our Island Guanahani but the spanish immediately claimed the Island was property of Spain and renamed it San Salvador. Columbus shortly realized that we didn't have any iron weapons and we could easily be enslaved. Clumbus was sailing around our Carribean Island for 96 days claiming and renaming the Islands for Spain. He misnamed us as Los Indios because the whole time he thought he was in the Indies. The spanish took advantage because of our poor weaponary and began to enslave us and kill us. They then began to scare us with dogs, horses, and guns because of what happened in the slaughter at La Navidad. Columbus forced us to build La Isabella and he enslaved 550 of us Tainos to be shipped to Spain and the spanish demanded gold for taxes. We tried to defend ourselves but the spanish would attacked us with dogs, burn us alive, they would throw our babies against rocks, or they would slaughter us. One of us was able to escape his name was Hatuey. He later led a revolt against the spanish in Cuba. He was killed but he was a hero to many of us.
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