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Yet five centuries after the Indiansâ fateful meeting with Columbus, elements of their culture endureâin the genetic heritage of modern Antilleans, in the persistence of Taino taÃ­no words and in isolated communities where people carry on traditional methods of, architecture, farming fishing and. healing
First Contact. European explorers were the first to encounter indigenous peoples of the New World. The first contact may have occurred when Thorvald, brother of Leif Eriksson, died in a skirmish with natives near Vinland in present-day Newfoundland.Thorvald may have been the first European to die and be buried in America.Nearly five centuries later, word that Christopher Columbus had discovered what was believed to be a western approach to the East Indies spread through Europe, which energized other nations to dispatch explorers.horvald may have been the first European to die and be buried in America. Nearly five centuries later, word that Christopher Columbus had discovered what was believed to be a western approach to the East Indies spread through Europe, which energized other nations to dispatch explorers.