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This article analyzes the different forms of resistance that the Tainos of Hispaniola deployed against the Castilian domination. The active resistance, violent, was scarce and late compared to the great passive resistance that was manifested since the arrival of the Spaniards. After the failed uprisings of the first years, the Taino tenacity adopted some basic strategies, given the inability to stop the destruction of their world: one, the practice of scorched earth, with the idea of expelling foreigners for lack of food: two, the flight to the mountains, absenting themselves from the haciendas and mines. And three, suicide, which they resorted to when they became aware of the imminent end of their world and their new servile situation. It will be necessary to wait almost two decades to find an active resistance, that of the hispanized cacique Enriquillo.

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RESUMENEn este artículo destacamos los importantes conocimientos herborísticos que llegaron a poseer los curanderos o behiques indígenas de la Española. Estos ocultaron a los españoles sus conocimientos, por un lado, como medio de conservar su situación social privilegiada, y, por el otro, como otra forma de rechazo hacia el grupo conquistador.Los españoles pronto se percataron de la importancia que tenía la herborística indígena como empresa económica comercializando con España numerosos licores y plantas medicinales. SUMMARYIn this article the important herbalist knowledge that the native healers or behiques possessed in la Española are pointed out. They concealed their herbalist knowledge as a means to preserve their priviledged social status, on the ather baud, es a rejection to the conquerors.Soon the Spaniards realised the importance that the native herbalist knouledge had as an enterprise and began a profitable trade of liqueur and medicinal plants to the Iberian Peninsula. INTRODUCCIÓN.

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