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The Due Date Unveiling The Atrocities Of The Taino Genocide

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Haley Graham Palk-slaughter ELA-8-6 Due date Unveiling the Atrocities of the Taino Genocide Genocide is the mass killing of a certain religion. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The importance of understanding historical atrocities is to understand the importance of our history. (Encyclopedia Britannica) Biblical foundation and perspectives on genocide are mainly all based on biblical worldviews. First, the concepts of justice and righteousness in the Bible are basically about how everyone should be treated equally and not differently. (TGC U.S. edition) Secondly, Human dignity and sanctity of life in biblical teaching ways is saying that everyone was created for a purpose. Lastly, God’s character and his response to injustice. His reaction …show more content…

(gsp.yale.edu) The importance of this genocide is the Columbus murdered multiple native people of the Caribbean. It is important to this world because this genocide is caused by one of the most known people in America, Colombus, the founder of America. In conclusion, everyone in America should read about this genocide because of the person who caused it. The Taino people were living peacefully before this genocide happened.The background of the Tain genocide is they were very happy in there huge families living there everyday life until the Taino genocide kill at least 7 million people. (Britannica.com) The ethnic dynamics of the Tainos were that they were part of the Arawak civilization but lived amongst the Carribeans. The tainos were also big on their religion. They worshiped their gods and their chiefs, who overruled all the Taino people. (bc.gov) Before the Taino genocide, the Taino people were happily living with their people when the Spaniards and Christopher Columbus wanted gold, so they blew up the Haiti gold mines. They were unsuccessful in finding gold, so instead they took the tainos for slavery. The genocide lasted 25 …show more content…

“The People vs. Columbus, et al.” Zinn Education Project, https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/people-vs-columbus/. Accessed 29 April 2024. Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. “Taino | History & Culture.” Britannica, 18 April 2024, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Taino. Accessed 29 April 2024. ESV Bible. “The Value and Dignity of Human Life.” ESV.org, https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/the-value-and-dignity-of-human-life/. Accessed 29 April 2024. “Exploring the Early Americas | Exhibitions.” Library of Congress, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/exploring-the-early-americas/. Accessed 09 April 2024. “Genocide.” Taino Museum, Taino Museum, https://tainomuseum.org/taino/genocide/. Accessed 29 April 2024. Jamieson, Bobby. “How to Respond When Injustice Seems to Prevail.” The Gospel Coalition, 5 June 2020, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/when-injustice-seems-prevail/. Accessed 29 April 2024. Schimmer, Russell. A. “Hispaniola.” Genocide Studies Program, January/February 1992, https://gsp.yale.edu/case-studies/colonial-genocides-project/hispaniola. “Taino Society – Historical Archaeology.” Florida Museum, 7 December 2018, https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/research/haiti/en-bas-saline/taino-society/. Accessed 11 April 2024. Taylor, Justin. “How Could God Command Genocide in the Old Testament?” The Gospel Coalition, 13 February 2013,

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