Arawak, native peoples of the Caribbean: Tainos and Caribs

• Tainos, agriculturalists: Northern islands, 200 BC -1200 AD.

• Caribs, Lesser Antilles: foragers and fishers and fighters

• Demographic destruction

• Linguistic legacy:

  • barbacoa (barbecue), batata (sweet potato), cacique (chief), canoa, hamaca (hammock), maguey (cactus), maiz, etc.

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