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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2788208, member: 76194&quot;]You know, that Indian is no ordinary generic Indian on a logo. That is Hatuey, a native Taino who fled the Dominican Republic in 1511 with 400 warriors and tried to warn the native Cuban tribes about the upcoming Spanish invasion, and to rally them to fight. Most Cuban tribes did not heed the message, and were thus not prepared and were easily slaughtered by the Spaniards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hatuey did his best to stall the Spaniards, and for a while he kept them at bay, but he was eventually captured and tied to a stake and burned alive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before he was burned, a Spanish priest asked him to convert and accept Jesus Christ so that he would go to heaven. Hatuey thought about it and asked the priest &quot;Do the Spaniards go to heaven?&quot; When the priest said yes, Hatuey said &quot;Then I&#039;d rather go to hell so as to never again witness such a cruel people.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly the native Cubans were almost completely ethnically cleansed. Indigenous DNA in Cuba is almost non-existent, and confined to a small portion of people&#039;s DNA in a few remote towns in Cuba. The extermination was so thorough that the native languages, customs, and religions were all lost to history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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