Taino

Taino is s group of people who named as Latinos, the Spanish speaking people of Latin American. They are related to the Arawak people who lived in South America. Beginning in 1472, at the time when Columbus invented the new land where the Taino lived there for more than one thousand years, Columbus started to research gold on the land. This is the first time, the Taino met the white people. In their language, Taino is the meaning of “the good people”. After that, Columbus and his men treated them and even killed them. However, some of Taino survived and they married with Africans, Spaniards and Americans. Some people say Taino people are extinct, but who knows.