This essay seeks to ascertain the extent to which the earliest people of the region are still considered the ‘Caribs’ and ‘Arawaks’ rather than the ‘Neoindians’. However‚ no discourse on the significance of these names can be engaged in without mention being made of the name‚ Christopher Columbus. Columbus was a Genoese adventurer who believed that by sailing west he could find Asia or the Indies and great wealth in the form of gold. This led to at least four expeditions into the ‘New World’. For
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Columbus‚ the Indians‚ Human Progress When Columbus reached land in the Bahamas he was greeted by the Arawak’s who were without clothing. They greeted Columbus and his men with gifts of food and water. Columbus instantly knew that he and his men could subjugate them and make them do whatever they want. The Arawak’s were remarkable for their hospitality and their beliefs in sharing which‚ were not present in the Europeans. The reasoning for Columbus’ voyage to the Americas was because Spain was
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The original settlers of Jamaica were the Arawak Indians. Their colony revolved around simplicity based on fishing and hunting. In 1494 when Columbus and his people arrived the Arawak population was generally wiped out. The Spanish disrupted the economy and brought new diseases to the island. Jamaica wasn’t really a significant place to the Spanish‚ because they were disappointed by the lack of gold and other riches. They basically used the area as a ‘home base’ while they explored other areas such
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from South America and migrated through the Caribbean and finally arrived in The Bahamas around 800 AD. They are known as Arawaks‚ also called Lucayans. Indians was a tag given by Columbus‚ who mistakenly thought he found the East Indies when he dropped anchor in San Salvador in 1492. At the time of Columbus ’ first stopover in the Bahamas‚ the Caribbean was the home of the Arawaks. These people roamed the Caribbean and settled long ahead of Columbus ’ arrival. The Lucayans were the gentle people
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Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States In the first chapter of A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn‚ the main focus is on the Indians‚ Christopher Columbus and the human progress and the author’s way of presenting factual information. Christopher Columbus is introduced as the famous navigator and explorer of the “New World”. We were taught in school that he discovered America and that was just enough for our tiny brains to like him because America is built on freedom
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islands. They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America. The people spoke either a Carib language or a pidgin‚ but the Caribs’ regular raids on other groups resulted in so many female Arawak captives that it was not uncommon for the women to speak Kalhíphona‚ a Maipurean language (Arawakan). In the southern Caribbean‚ they co-existed with a related Cariban-speaking group‚ the Galibi. They lived in separate villages in Grenada‚ Tobago
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the Caribbean when the currents and winds were favorable. From November to March‚ they were effected by the winds and winter. Another group of people that were inhabitants of the Caribbean before the arrival of the Eurpeans were the Arawaks. The Arawaks were migrants from Central and South America‚ who expanded their homelands to the Northern and Southern regions of Cuba and Trinidad. They occupied larger areas‚ such as Cuba‚ Hispaniola‚ Jamaica‚ Puerto Rico and were believed to share
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THE MAYAN’S HISTORY AND CULTURE The Maya refer to both a modern-day people who can be found all over the world as well as their ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched throughout much of Central America‚ one that reached its peak during the first millennium A.D. The Maya civilization was never unified; rather‚ it consisted of numerous small states‚ ruled by kings‚ each apparently centred on a city. Sometimes‚ a stronger Maya state would dominate a weaker state and be
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exceed three quarters of a million and most of them lived on the Hispaniola Island. The main types of people comprised the Ciboney‚ the Taino Arawak and the Carib. In some case its hard to track the history of some of these people but most of them left their history in pottery and paintings which was important in determining their ways of life. For the Arawaks‚ settlements ranged from single units of many families to towns of one thousand houses. Village houses were arranged around ball courts and
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reputation. Howard Zinn’s article “Columbus‚ The Indians and Human Progress” presents Columbus as a genocidal tyrant‚ who committed atrocities in a perverse manner unbefitting a man described as an “American hero”. The article provides a much more detailed description of Columbus’ interactions with the native Arawak people‚ beginning with their first meeting on San Salvador. Columbus immediately sought to abuse the generosity shown by the Arawak towards him and his crew‚ noting that “They would
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