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This list is a compilation of the indigenous names that were given by Amerindian people to the Caribbean islands before the Europeans started naming them. The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492.
[4] [5] Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by names of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the name of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish ...
The following is a list of indigenous peoples of South America. These include the peoples living in South America in the pre-Columbian era and the historical and contemporary descendants of those peoples.
John P. Bennett (Lokono), first Amerindian ordained as an Anglican priest in Guyana, linguist, and author of An Arawak-English Dictionary (1989). [45] Foster Simon, Artist, [46] Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono anthropologist from Suriname who contributed to the field of colonial science. [47] Oswald Hussein, Artist
During the mid-1800s, Spanish missionaries, who remained on Trinidad during British rule, decided to install a new leader for the Amerindian community. [4] However, the missionaries rejected the idea of a male chieftain for the local Amerindians. [4] Instead, the missionaries allowed them to have a line of female rulers. [4]
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Non-Native companies and individuals have attempted to use Native American motifs and names in their clothing designs. [87] As early as the 1940s, Anglo designers in the United States had developed a type of one and two-piece dresses called "squaw dresses." [88] These outfits were based on Mexican and Navajo skirts and Western Apache camp ...
Pages in category "Florida placenames of Native American origin" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .