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terms Arawak and Caribs to distinguish the peoples of the Caribbean, with Carib reserved for Indigenous groups that they considered hostile and Arawak for

Indigenous languages of the Americas. Some languages, including Quechua, Arawak, Aymara, Guaraní, Nahuatl, and some Mayan languages, have millions of speakers

Revolution; they were known as "indiens esclaves" which numbered about 5,000. In a 1780 census, there was also a group listed as "indiens sauvages", which Haitian

'the island of iguanas'. The island was occupied first by Arawaks, then by Caribs. The Arawaks came from Central America in the 1st century AD and the Caribs

topic Afro-Caribbean Caribbean Court of Justice Indigenous people Taíno Arawak Hurricanes Influx of diseases Malaria Territorial evolution Geography Regions

Retrieved 1 June 2006. Mimi Sheller (2003). Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies. International Library of Sociology. Routledge. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-134-51678-0

 81–96. Ellison N. : « Les enjeux locaux de la ‘reconstitution des peuples indiens’ au Mexique. Reconfiguration des rapports entre minorités et pouvoirs publics

For further etymology of "Britain", see United Kingdom below. From Taíno/Arawak, Hayiti or Hayti, meaning "mountainous land", originally Hayiti. The name

dans cette Contrée intéressante et peu connue; avec des Détails sur les Indiens de la Guiane et les Négres, Paris: F. Buisson John Gabriel Stedman (1797)