CULTURAL HISTORY AND COLONIALISM Puerto Rico
Jan 11, 2016
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