CULTURAL HISTORY AND COLONIALISM

Puerto Rico

Pre-Columbus Era

Ortoiroid Culture•2,000-3,000 BC

•Orinoco Valley in South America

•Avid hunters and fisherman

Rogozinsky, Jan: A Brief History of the Caribbean. Plume, 1999. ISBN 0-452-28193-8

Pre-Columbus Era Continued

•430-250 BC

• Native to Saladero in Venezuela

•Pottery style helps identify

Saladoid Culture

Irving Rouse (1992). The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the people who greeted Columbus. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300056966.

Pre-Columbus Era Continued

•1,000 AD – post Columbus era

•30,000 – 60,000 inhabited the island

•Mainly consumed small mammals

Taino Culture

Pre-Columbus Era Continued

•Two classes: Naborias ~ Natainos

•Practiced polygamy

•Worshipped more than one god

Taino Culture

"Caciques, nobles and their regalia". elmuseo.org. Archived from the original on 2006-10-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20061009090513/http://elmuseo.org/taino/caciques.html.

Pre-Columbus Era Continued

Taino Culture

•Decreased due to Spaniards

•Were deemed gentle in nature

•Culture is embedded in Puerto Rico today

Kirkpatrick Sale, "The Conquest of Paradise",p100, ISBN 0-333-57479-6

Spanish Rule (1493-1898)

•1509 – Caparra is abandoned

•Enslavement of Tainos

•Roman Catholic Church tries to expand its infuence

•Tri –Racial culture is formed

Colonization

"La tragédie des Taïnos", in L'Histoire n°322, July–August 2007, p.16

Spanish Rule (1493-1898) Continued

•French sack San Germain in 1528,1538, and 1554

•British try to loot San Juan 1595

• Dutch attack San Juan and set it ablaze in 1625

"Historia militar de Puerto Rico"; by Hector Andres Negroni (Author); Publisher: Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario (199

European Threats

United States Rule (1898-present)

Spanish-American War

Treaty of Paris

Military control

Negroni, Héctor Andrés (1992) (in Spanish). Historia militar de Puerto Rico. Sociedad Estatal Quinto Centenario. ISBN 8478441387

United States Rule (1898-present) Continued

Colonization

U.S. postal service

Highways/bridges

Health system

Sparked beginnings of political parties

United States Rule (1898-present) Continued

Major Acts

Foraker act of 1900

Jones act of 1917

Commonwealth establishment

"Strategy as Politics'; by: Jorge Rodriguez Beruff; Publisher: La Editorial; Universidad de Puerto Rico; page 27; ISBN 978-0-8477-0160-5