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Pages in category "English people of Jamaican descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,020 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
But according to a more precise study conducted by the local University of the West Indies - Jamaica's population is more accurately 76.3% African descent or Black, 15.1% Afro-European (or locally called the Brown Man or Browning Class), 3.4% East Indian and Afro-East Indian, 3.2% Caucasian, 1.2% Chinese and 0.8% Other.
The Caribbean Island of Jamaica was initially inhabited in approximately 600 AD or 650 AD by the Redware people, often associated with redware pottery. [1] [2] [3] By roughly 800 AD, a second wave of inhabitants occurred by the Arawak tribes, including the Tainos, prior to the arrival of Columbus in 1494. [1]
Today there are Yukayekes in Cuba, [34] [35] Jamaica, [33] and Puerto Rico, [36] such as "Higuayagua" and "Yukayeke Taíno Borikén". [ 26 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] There have also been attempts to revive the Taíno language—such as the Hiwatahia Hekexi dialect [ 39 ] —using words that have survived into local Spanish dialects and extrapolation from ...
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities [6]) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]
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Once arriving in Jamaica, in order to assimilate easier into Jamaican society, they often took Anglo/British originated family names due to those being the majority in the country. However, some families took the names of the villages they came from in India and also their one name was used as the surname for their children.