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cohoba "The survival of Taino culture in the Dominican Republic"

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The survival of Taino culture in the Dominican Republic Historically, the national identity of the Dominican Republic has been based on the tales of English colonialism on the extinction of indigenous peoples and ideologies of progress and civilization that are located within the vision of the Hispanic. Dominicans are so disconnected from their ancestors and their indigenous cultural heritage. This heritage, along with the historical evidence of Taino survival prove that the history of Taíno extinction has never been true. In a sense, the English colonization were successful: they declared that the Taino were extinct and emerged a Hispanic nationalist ideology that has dominated discussions of the country's identity.  But a closer examination of the persistence of cultural forms Taíno origins, saw its strength.  The roots of traditional culture are truly Dominican Taino.  The Dominicans who reflect on the extinction of the Tainos learning in schools and in the national culture, understand it's a partial story of their identity. Dominican Professor Antonio de Moya wrote that "Genocide is the big lie Taíno of our history ... the Dominican Taino still living 500 years after European contact."

Some legal documents of the period testify to a large number of Tainos fled from the English. Some of the Maroons went to other islands or the mainland. Others hid in the mountains and deserts of the island Hispaniola - preferred to leave behind fertile valleys and live free in less hospitable land. Mid-sixteenth century, most English had moved to Santo Domingo and its surroundings. In 1555, a English patrol discovered four people "full of Indians that no one knew"-a village near Puerto Plata, another, very close, on the coast of the Sea Atlantic, one in the Samana peninsula, and one northwest of the island, in the Cabo San Nicolas. It is clear that after fifty years the Indians had decided to return runaway slaves to the coasts and fertile valleys of the north because they left the English.
Time to bury the mistaken belief that all the Tainos died.

The myth of the superiority of all that is English is based on a twisted story within the past 500 years, the years of conquest and ancestry of Europeans to the top of the world economic stage. The story went wrong because the same historians were European conquerors, and they mistook a superior social economic and cultural superiority ...