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  2. Lucayan people - Wikipedia

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    The Lucayans were part of a larger Taíno population in the Greater Antilles. The Lucayans, along with the Taínos in Jamaica, most of Cuba and parts of western Hispaniola have been classified as part of a Sub-Taíno, Western Taíno or Ciboney Taíno cultural and language group. Keegan describes any distinctions between Lucayans and Classical ...

  3. Lucayan Archipelago - Wikipedia

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    The Lucayan Archipelago, also known as the Bahamian Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

  4. History of the Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The Bahamas held little interest to the Spanish except as a source of slave labor. Nearly the entire population of Lucayan (almost 40,000 people total) were transported to other islands as laborers over the next 30 years. When the Spanish decided to remove the remaining Lucayans to Hispaniola in 1520, they could find only eleven.

  5. Andros, The Bahamas - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish may have carried away as many as 40,000 Lucayans by 1513. A 1520 expedition by the Spanish discovered only 11 people in The Bahamas; the Lucayans were effectively eradicated from these islands. The islands of the Bahamas, including Andros Island, remained uninhabited thereafter for approximately 130 years. [7]

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Western Taíno of the Bahamas were known as the Lucayans, they were wiped out by Spanish slave raids by 1520. Western Taíno living in Cuba were known as the Ciboney. They had no chiefdoms or organized political structure beyond individual villages, but by the time of Spanish conquest many were under the control of the Cuban Taíno in ...

  7. Partners in crime paused robbery spree to get hitched in ...

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    An alleged modern California Bonnie and Clyde duo have been charged with committing a string of armed robberies --before pausing their crime spree to get hitched in Las Vegas, authorities said.

  8. Taíno - Wikipedia

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    Their language is considered to have belonged to the Arawak language family, the languages of which were historically present throughout the Caribbean, and much of Central and South America. In 1871, early ethnohistorian Daniel Garrison Brinton referred to the Taíno people as the Island Arawak , expressing their connection to the continental ...

  9. Zizians: What we know about the 'cult' linked to six deaths - AOL

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    A cult-like US group known as Zizians has been linked to a string of murders, sparking several arrests – who are the people behind this group and what do they believe?