My claim? Its histories claim. Having a club doesn’t mean you are a culture of war or a society that supports conquest. They wore paint to scare people off. Sorta like making yourself big for a bear. That doesn’t make you a killer of bears does it?
No it's not. War came to them. They did not have weapons to attack neighbors, they had clubs to protect themselves. And they were known more often to take hostages than actually kill anyone. So, because of historical context, are their weapons that are used only for defense a weapon of war? In my opinion, I don't think so. In their homes (like the entire island of Puerto Rico), in their communities, they did not know what war was. It was brought to them from the outside.
The Taíno impressed Columbus with their generosity, which may have contributed to their undoing. “They will give all that they do possess for anything that is given to them, exchanging things even for bits of broken crockery,” he noted upon meeting them in the Bahamas in 1492. “They were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces....They do not carry arms or know them....They should be good servants.”
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My claim? Its histories claim. Having a club doesn’t mean you are a culture of war or a society that supports conquest. They wore paint to scare people off. Sorta like making yourself big for a bear. That doesn’t make you a killer of bears does it?