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The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Specifically, the term "Arawak" has been applied at various times from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno, who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. All these groups spoke related Arawakan languages.
[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 ...
In 1871, early ethnohistorian Daniel Garrison Brinton referred to the Taíno people as the Island Arawak, expressing their connection to the continental peoples. [19] Since then, numerous scholars and writers have referred to the Indigenous group as Arawaks or Island Arawaks.
[11]: vi Early Spanish explorers and administrators used the terms Arawak and Caribs to distinguish the peoples of the Caribbean, with Carib reserved for indigenous groups that they considered hostile and Arawak for groups that they considered friendly. [12]: 121 The Kalinago language endonyms are Karifuna (singular) and Kalinago (plural).
The Lokono Artists Group. Historically, the group self-identified and still identifies as 'Lokono-Arawak' by the semi fluent speakers in the tribe, or simply as 'Arawak' (by non speakers of the native tongue within the tribe) and strictly as 'Lokono' by tribal members who are still fluent in the language, because in their own language they call themselves 'Lokono' meaning 'many people' (of ...
Wayuu Indigenous People of Colombia and Venezuela, Indigenous Peoples Issues; article on the Wayuu, PBS Frontline; Massacre of Wayuu, Denver Post (in Spanish) Summary of Colombian policies towards Amerindian ethnic groups, Colombia's national library (in Spanish) Etniasdecolombia.org; Psicologia del Caribe: Wayuus
The Arawaks were the first well-documented group of Antiguans. They paddled to the island by canoe (piragua) from Venezuela, and were ejected by the Caribs—another people Indigenous to the area. Arawaks introduced agriculture to Antigua and Barbuda, raising, among other crops, the famous Antiguan "black" pineapple.
Taíno, Island Caribs. The Igneri were an Indigenous Arawak people of the southern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Historically, it was believed that the Igneri were conquered and displaced by the Island Caribs or Kalinago in an invasion some time before European contact. However, linguistic and archaeological studies in the 20th century have ...