Word: taino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle...their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." However, these qualities were also taken as signs of weakness that could be profitably exploited and heathen savagery which would have to be reformed, and "Columbus kidnapped ten of his friendly Taino hosts and carried them off to Spain where they could be introduced to the white man's ways. One of them died soon after arriving there but not before he was baptized a Christian. The Spaniards were so pleased that they had made it possible for the first Indian...