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The Taino People of the Caribbean Are NOT Extinct

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1700-1800’s



According to Herbert W. Krieger, Jeffreys describes 100 natives living in Haiti in 1730.
In “Aborigines of the Island of Hispaniola” page 478, 1930

 Alexandre Oliver Exquemelian reported in the 1770’s that the Buccaneers and their “Indian
tracker” companions were all over the Island of Hispaniola. Alexandre Oliver Exquemelian
“The buccaneers of America: A true account of The most remarkable assaults committed
by the English and the French Buccaneers against the Spaniards in America (Santo Domingo:
Editorial Taller, 1992).

 Jose Alvarez de Peralta writes that, at the time of the treaty between Spain and France
on June 3, 1777 at Aranjuez, the Dominican population was, not counting the Haitian side,
400,000. The break down was as follows: blancos (white).....................................................................100,000
Mestizos de Raza India y Blanca........................................100, 000
Mulatos.....................................................................................70,000
Mestizos de Raza India y Negro............................................60,000
Negros.......................................................................................70, 000

Emilio Rodriguez Demorizi In, Relaciones geográficas de Santo Domingo Vol 1, P.162.

 Medric Louis Elie Moreau de Saint Mery, reported that in 1783 he observed that there were
certain “Creoles who have hair like that of Indians and “pretend” to be descendants of the
primitive natives on his visit to the Eastern, Spanish side of the Island. In “Descripcion de
la parte Espanola de Santo Domingo, trans”. C Armando Rodriguez (Santo Domingo: Editora
Montalvo, 1944) 95 and 50 respectively

 Modesta- Slave girl from the Dominican Republic sold in 1783
Buyer's Name: Morales
Seller's Name: Labie
Year Document was created: 1783
Origin: Santo Domingo
Gender: female
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including hapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=14523by by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 In the 1787 census under governor Toribio Montes in Puerto Rico, over 2300 “pure” Indians
are listed living in the Central Cordillera, yet in the census of 1800, there are no categories
for Indians or mixed blood Indians. What do appear in place of Indians are Freemen of color
or “pardo”. As it appears in the 1787 census of Puerto Rico. According to historian Salvador
Brau.

 Felipe- Slave boy from Jamaica sold in 1793
Buyer's Name: Laburthe y Barriere
Seller's Name: Leblanc
Year Document was created: 1793
Origin: Jamaica
Gender: male
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=23247 Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Adele- Slave girl from Haiti sold in 1811
Buyer's Name: Morel/Seller's Name: Pradine
Year Document was created: 1811
Origin: St Domingue/Gender: female
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/fields.php by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Benoit- Slave boy from Haiti sold in 1811
Buyer's Name: Reynaud
Seller's Name: Bidet Renoulleau
Year Document was created: 1811
Origin: St Domingue
Gender: male
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=52448 by by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Adelle-Slave girl from Haiti sold in 1816
Buyer's Name: Rondeau
Seller's Name: Montas
Year Document was created: 1816
Origin: St Domingue
Gender: female
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=68923 by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Camire- Slave boy from Cuba sold in 1816
Buyer's Name: Malus
Seller's Name: Lapeyere
Year Document was created: 1816
Origin: Cuba
Gender: male
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=67018 by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Dorotee-Slave girl from Jamaica sold in 1816
Buyer's Name: LeBlanc
Seller's Name: Dispan
Year Document was created: 1816
Origin: Jamaica
Gender: female
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Pointe Coupee/
 http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=68559 by
Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

 Celestine- Slave girl from Cuba sold in 1817
Estate's (Deceased Master) Name: Seguin
Buyer's Name: Borel
Year Document was created: 1817
Origin: Cuba
Gender: female
Racial Designation: grif-usually means mixed black and Indian
Document Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).[Jefferson 1825]
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/individ.php?sid=72659 by Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

So much so that the national complexion of skin and general physiognomic traits may well be
described as being alight brown, approaching the copper color of the North American abori-
gines, straight black hair in the case of the females, glossy and in luxurious profusion and a
combination of features resulting from about an equal blending of the African, Caucasian and
-Indian physiognomies. The very visible traits of the latter would seem to indicate, although
we are not aware of the existence of any other evidence of it, that the aboriginal race instead
of having been entirely exterminated, had been particularly amalgamated. In “The Dominican
Republic in the Island of St. Domigue” by S. A. Kendall, page 243, 1849

The “pure” race wholly died in (Hispaniola) at the latter end of the “last” century; but their
characteristic features and luxuriant hair, are still to be traced among their descendants,
from intercourse with Europeans, Africans and colored people. These are still called Indios.
In Harper's statistical gazetteer of the world / by J. Calvin Smith ; Illustrated by seven maps.
Publication date: 1855.Collection: Making of America Books
May the devil take me, if I happen see him around here. These damned Indians can never
be seen; as soon as they are here they disappear, and when we think they have been defeat-
ed, they re-appear shooting even more. And they are not bad shots either. They have spent
their entire lives hunting, so wherever they aim, one has no choice but to make the sign of
the cross. By an anonymous Spanish soldier to his family in 1864 during the War for Dominican
Restoration which began August 16, 1863 as it appears in http://www.27febrero.com/larestauracion.htm


Few “genuine” representatives of the indigenous race can be found in the Dominican Republic.
In “The American Encyclopædia: Publication date: 1873-76.Collection: Making of America Books

The population of the Dominican Republic is one tenth white, Spaniards of un-mixed descent,
and the rest a mixture of Spanish, Indian and Negro with a small number of pure Negroes. In
Johnson's new universal Encyclopedia: a scientific and popular treasury of useful knowledge
... Editors-in-chief. Frederick A.P. Barnard ... [and] Arnold Guyot ... With numerous contribu-
tions from writers of distinguished eminence in every department of letters and science in
the United States and in Europe...Publication date: 1875-1878.

 Although at their entrance the Spaniards found some 2,000,00 Natives, Negro slaves had
to be introduced as early as 1522; by 1711 there were only 21,000 natives. In “The Globe
encyclopaedia of universal information”. Edited by John M. Ross. Publication date: 1876-79.
Collection: Making of America Books.

 In the mid 1800’s a Spanish ship rescued 200 Yucatan Indians who had been stranded by
the French on Tortuga Island. These Indians were taken to live at the town of Boya, per-
haps, because there was an Indian contingent already there? In “La Encyopedia de la Cultura
Dominicana”, book B, page 282.

 In 1882 a 91-year-old woman by the name of Josefa Gonzalez, who along with other neigh-
bors affirmed that the Cacique Enriquillo and his wife Mencia are buried in a tomb in the cen-
ter of the church in the town of Boya. General Don Pedro Santana who after being elected
President of the Dominican Republic, assigned a pension to another Indian woman who claim-
ed to be a descendant of one of the other chiefs under Enriquillo, and also lived in Boya.
Manuel De Jesus Galvan, in Enriquillo page 480, 1882.

 In Haiti, Santo Domingo and in New Mexican Pueblos old Indian rites are wonderfully mixed
with Christian ceremonials. Hence we have on one and the same day mass and tablet dan-
ces-church services followed by dances in which old time mythological personages appear.
James Walter Fewkes, In “On Zemes from Santo Domingo” Pepper collection: foot note,
page 1, 1891

 There are still half breed Indians living in the town of Boya, Dominican Republic, notes Fred-
erick Albion Ober, in “Aborigines of the West Indies” 1895, page 289. Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc.
n.s. vol. 9 pp. Worcester, Mass.

 War Diaries of Jose Marti: Part 1- From MonteCristi, Dominican Republic to Cap-Haitian,
February 14, 1895, page 354

…La Esperanza, made famous by Columbus’s route, is a hamlet of palms and yaguas on a
wholesome stretch of level ground encircled by mountains. La Providencia (Providence) was
the name of the first general store back in Guayubin, the one that belonged to a Puerto
Rican husband, who had some yellowing antique, medical books and a fresh young Indian
girl with marble profile, an uneasy smile, and flaming eyes, who approached our stirrups to
hand cigars up to us. And in La Esperanza we dismounted in front of La Delicia. From within,
General Candelario Lozano, his hair too long and his pants too short, comes to open the
gate- “la pueita” is how he says puerta- for our mounts. He isn’t wearing socks and his shoes
are made of leather, He hangs up his hammock…War Diaries, Cuba, April 23, 1895 Page 389….
”But why do these Cubans fight against Cubans? I’ve seen that it isn’t a matter of opinion or
some impossible affection for Spain.” “They fight, the pigs, they fight like that for the peso
they’re paid, one peso a day, less the lodging that’s deducted. They’re the bad seed of the
little villages, or men who have a crime to pay for, or tramps who don’t want to work, and
a handful of Indians from Baitiquiri and Cajueri…Page 390-Since el Palenque they’ve been
following our tracks closely. Garridos Indians could fall on us here. Jose Marti, Selected Writ-
ings, edited and translated by Esther Allen, 2002, Penguin Classics

 “The one of most interest is the indio, or that of the descendants of Inhabitants found on
the island at its discovery and settlement. They form a great mass of the country laborers
over the island, especially in the centre and northeastern section. They have much of the
serious appearance of the North American Indian, with his high cheek bones, but their color
is less red and more swarthy.” M.W. Harrington’s , Porto Rico and the Porto Ricans, Catholic
world, volume 70, Issue 416, page 174.
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