Invasion! The Graphic Novel Class
For the Graphic Novel Seminar, we have been reading Gord Hill's "500 Years on Indigenous Resistance". This graphic novel is a history of the Americas from the point of view of the numerous Indigenous peoples who have lived here for an estimated 40,000 years! We will be using this history graphic novel as a launching point to make our own graphic novels. We started with the Taino people; the native people of the Caribbean. We studied their art, culture, economy and history. The Taino are invaded by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Crown in 1492; their society is never the same again as they experience a genocide. While it was recorded that the Taino people go extinct in the 1500s, and most were killed as a result of massacres, murder, torture, abuse and starvation, there is recorded resistance. For example, there was Enriquillo's Rebellion of 1519 in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Enriquillo was a Taino Caciques, which is another word for a