Haiti - an Overview
Haiti- a Brief Overview of the Island's history Haiti lies along the Greater Antilles archipelago and shares borders with the Dominican Republic creating Hispaniola. Prior to the colonization of the country, Haiti was inhabited by the Ciboney and Taino indigenous people. Numerous amounts of conflicts due to territorial disputes resulted in the Taino people removing the greater population of Ciboney out of Haiti. In December of 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in Haiti and established the colony of La Navidad. At first the natives and Columbus had a mutual relationship which shortly disintegrated when the Taino killed the settlers of La Navidad. However like what happened in the rest of the Americas, "disease brought from Europe such as small pox spread across Haiti(as well as Hispaniola)"(Stinchcombe). With the introduction of the Law of Burgos, which prevented the mistreatment of natives and encouraged their conversion to Catholicism, ca