The Taino People: The Native Puerto Ricans

The Native Puerto Ricans are also known as the Taino people. The Taino people are very peaceful and ended up greeting Columbus with open arms and showing him the river where they had their most prize possession, there gold nuggets. It began in the XV Century but was then rediscovered by Christopher Columbus both the people and their land. These particular people spoke the language of Arawakan and they came from South America where they lived in small villages. They lived in villages that had chiefs in each village and they were divided into three classes, the naborias, noblemen, and chiefs and every village had each class in them. Naborias are working class people, the noblemen are like the medicine men and the priests. If it was not for Isabella
At this time the Native Puerto Ricans were not getting treated fairly when it came to certain labors. The Native Puerto Ricans had to workday in and day out and if they did not they had serious consequences like punishments and maybe even death if they did not do what was told of them. They eventually replaced Juan Ponce de Leon as governor with Columbus son Diego in his place after Diego won all his father’s discovers. Ponce de Leon left because he did not want to work under Columbus son so he went and he explored Bahama and other areas in the North. After all the things that happen with the Native Puerto Ricans like the hurricane and the attacks, they actually grew stronger as a
flag. These churches were big tall buildings with a cross at the very top. One thing that the Native Puerto Ricans lacked was that they did not have a native clergy. A clergy is a person who is ordained for religious duties. They eventually came up with a better building the San Juan Cathedral and this was added in the 19th century and this building had four rooms and it sheltered a tower and this is also where Ponce de Leon body laid to rest and is in marble tomb near the cathedral’s transept. They had their first Bishop enter the Catholic Church in 1513, he was American and his name was Bishop Alonso Manso and he was a Catholic