disappeared after they were usurped by a different Caribbean tribe, the Lucayans. “The Lucayans (also called Arawaks) were a broad group of tribes who worked their way up the Caribbean from South America's Amazon between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago.” (Bahamas4u.com) Surprisingly they believe that after the arrival of Columbus, the Spanish soon exterminated the Lucayans off the island. To this day they have a National Park named Lucayan National Park, where you can see the skulls and artifacts left behind
of Native American culture. Most people in the current times believe that Columbus wanted to find a new trade route. Columbus didn't care about foreign goods or trade, he wanted gold (Inman, Matthew). In an effort to find it, Columbus enslaved the Lucayan people as a free source of labor that could easily be controlled. If the natives disobeyed orders, they were tortured and sometimes killed. Columbus and his men forced the natives to mine gold for him and the few times they were able to fulfill their
Countless of years ago a great mountain range stretched north from what is now the topmost coast of South America, the range was in a constant state of upheaval, lashed by continuous rains, swept by storms, with fire spouting from every peak finally the mountains dropped beneath the sea, quieted most of the volcanoes. The exposed peaks were covered with verdure of fantastic beauty, and left these peaks above the sea to form the chain of West Indian islands as we know today. Although they were islands
the name is from the Spanish, meaning that the Spanish settled or found The Bahamas shortly after Christopher Columbus. The reason for this is because the word bajamar means shallow water. Although most people believe its name comes from the Lucayan. The Lucayan are the people who first settled in The Bahamas. In 1718, The Bahamas came under British rule. They didn’t gain independence until 1973. The Bahamas’ residents are called Bahamians. They speak in Creole or English. They pay in the Bahamian
West Indies and named is San Salvador. (Craton, pg. 30) The Spanish settlers encountered the native Bahamians, the Lucayans upon thier arrival. The Lucayans were a primitive race of farmers and fisherman that had migrated north from Venezuela to escape the cannibalistic Caribs.(Bothwell, pg. 27) The hospitality of the natives was not returned by the Europeans and since the lucayans themselves were the only valuable commodity to the Spanish they were all enslaved and sent to Hispaniola to work and
The Bahamas is a tropical place that has unspoiled wilderness and crystal clear oceans with a laid back, carefree attitude of the locals. The Bahamas is an independent nation with a constitutional parliamentary democracy, public and private schools. The economy of the Bahamas consists of major industries, exports, imports such as financial services as well as a prime tourist spot. The Bahamas is known for some of the most amazing beaches that are known around the world. The Bahamas have a unique
The Turks and Caicos Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom consisting of thirty islands. The thirty islands total 430 square kilometers. The capital of the islands is Cockburn Town which is located on Grand Turk Island. The total population of Turks and Caicos is approx. 36,000. Approximately 22,500 of the 36,000 people live on Providenciales in the Caicos Islands. (Wikipedia, Turks and Caicos Islands) (Kids.com) Turks and Caicos was first inhabited around 700 AD by people called
and Caicos were governed by the British indirectly through Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica, this made the Turks and Caicos Islands part of Bahamas/Bahamian Archipelago. The people who inhabit the Bahamian islands/ Bahamian archipelago are known a Lucayans. (Wikipedia) In 1512 Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León was the first European to sight the islands of Turks and Caicos. However, many historians also believe that Christopher Columbus could have sighted the islands on his 1492 voyage around
Bahamas I have decided to do my research paper on the Bahamas. The Bahamas have always amazed me when I watch the commercials on TV. This summer I will be going to Atlantis in the Bahamas and I’m very excited to be able to visit there. I thought that the Bahamas would be perfect for my paper for the fact that when I do go down there I will know a lot more about the physical and human area’s of geography there. The first part of my research was over the population. The population in the Bahamas is
is a villain for his inhuman acts against the natives of the New World, his sheer greedy ways, and his selfish acts of theft. To begin, Christopher Columbus is a villain because of the vile way he treated the people native to the New World, the Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks (Kasum). One of the first things Christopher Columbus did when he reached the New
The Music and the People of the Bahamas The first known people to inhabit some of the 700 islands that make up the Bahamas, were the Taíno Arawak people who called themselves the Lukku-Cairi (island people). Somewhere between 300 and 400 CE archeological evidence shows that this group of people migrated from the shores of the Orinoco River in what is now Venezuela to Cuba and then the Bahamas. The Lukku-Cairi were a peaceful people. (Murray, 1999, p.10) Their peacefulness and generosity are written
to discover America, Native Americans discovered America about 14,000 years before Columbus was even born. Second, when Columbus discovered the Bahamas, he found that the people living there were friendly and peaceful, these people were called the Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks. They even helped save a ship and its cargo after a storm. So of course from this Columbus was so “impressed” with their work, he seized the land for Spain, and then enslaved the islanders. He made them work in his brutal gold
properties from Spanish Jews and Muslims by order of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus headed out to explore a new world with money and ships. Upon arrival, Columbus and his expedition of weapon laden Spaniards met the Arawaks, Tainos and Lucayans—all friendly, according to Columbus’ writings. Impressed with the friendliness of the native people, Columbus seized control of the land in the name of Spain. Soon after arriving, Columbus wrecked the Santa Maria and the Arawaks worked for hours
The Persecution of Indigenous People On October 12, 1492, a European by the name of Christopher Columbus arrived on an island of the Americas. However, he and his shipmates were not the first people to step foot on the land of the Americas. Long before Columbus, the Native Americans were the original populace of the land. Despite their seniority over the land, the Native Americans were feared and persecuted by the white settlers because of their many unusual appearances and atypical traditions
Old World Confronts New World: Europe is Faced with Reminders of its Primitive Past The nature of the cultural confrontation that took place between Old and New World cultures was profoundly shaped by the condition of fifteenth century Christian Europe at the moment of contact. Recent scholarship demonstrating parallels between New World and Old World paganism(1) raises the question of whether the reactions of fifteenth century Europeans to the native American cultures were conditioned by