What might be even more true..........is that they up and left.............the Taino culture extended pretty much everywhere in the Caribbean...........Cuba...........Haiti........the Dom. Rep..............Puerto Rico.........etc..................they had their own boats and would travel back and forth.........over time they might have realized that the Europeans kept coming and were not going to give up oppressing them....................and just bailed....................as in they got out of dodge.......



 hundreds fell in fighting with the Spaniards, while untold numbers fled to remote regions beyond colonial control. In time, many Taíno women married conquistadors, combining the genes of the New World and Old World to create a new mestizo population, which took on Creole characteristics with the arrival of African slaves in the 16th century