It’s our 1-year anniversary!!! To thank you for making our first year so fantastic, we finally did the full-length episode on hammocks that we’ve been promising since we started with the mini-sode a year ago.
Kate dives more into the history and culture of the Taino people, including their invention of the hammock, as well as the deeply horrific details of their encounters with the Spanish, instigated by Christopher Columbus.
This episode comes with an enormous CONTENT WARNING for graphic violence, including against children and infants, as well as torture, rape, and suicide.
References
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de las Casas, first published 1552, translated to English 1689
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-were-taino-original-inhabitants-columbus-island-73824867/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bartolome-de-Las-Casas
https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Taino
https://www.britannica.com/place/Lesser-Antilles
https://www.britannica.com/place/Greater-Antilles
https://www.britannica.com/topic/shifting-agriculture
https://www.taino-tribe.org/tribal-culture.html
https://tainomuseum.org/taino/
https://www.rutopia.com/en/blog/the-hammocks-mayan-handcrafts-for-your-home
https://www.caneycircle.org/female/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus#ref25447
https://www.biography.com/history-culture/christopher-columbus
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/did-you-know-spread-islam-southeast-asia-through-trade-routes
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2045/the-gold-of-the-conquistadors/
https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/gold-of-the-indies
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/transatlantic-slave-trade-begins
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus/The-second-and-third-voyages
https://www.hatueyproject.org/who-is-hatuey/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1769869/
https://chacruna.net/latinos-coast-to-coast/
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