Arawak

Introduction

Long considered extinct, the Arawak people (from “aru”, the Lucayan word for cassava flour) are one of several Indigenous Peoples from the West Indies. The Arawak were the first to encounter Christopher Columbus when he accidentally landed far away from the United States in 1492.

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