![]() ![]() "So tractable, so peaceable, are these people," Columbus wrote to the King and Queen of Spain, "that I swear to your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation. As was the custom of the people when receiving strangers, the Tainos on the island of San Salvador generously presented Columbus and his men with gifts and treated them with honor. ![]() Those Europeans, the white men, spoke in different dialects, and some pronounced the word Indien, or Indianer, or Indian. ![]() It began with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name Indios. ![]()
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