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Home > Haiti History > Haiti Spanish Discovery And Colonization > Haiti - The Taino Indian / Arawak Haiti - The Taino Indian / Arawak The Taino Indian (or Arawak) inhabitants referred to their homeland by many names, but they most commonly used Ayti, or Hayti (mountainous).
Initially hospitable toward the Spaniards, these natives responded violently to the newcomers' intolerance and abuse.
When Columbus returned to Hispaniola on his second voyage in 1493, he found that Navidad had been razed and its inhabitants, slain.
But the Old World's interest in expansion and its drive to spread Roman Catholicism were not easily deterred; Columbus established a second settlement, Isabela, farther to the east.
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