Arawaks
- plural of Arawak.
Example Sentences
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Some contemporary Indigenous groups, including the Arawaks and Piaroa, descend from these ancient societies.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
Their name derived from the Spanish word for “wild,” and they had been imported from Africa to replace the indigenous people, the Arawaks, nearly all of whom had been killed by the Spanish.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
The Garífuna are descendants of West Africans who were shipwrecked in 1635 off the coast of St. Vincent, where they intermarried with the indigenous Arawaks and Caribs.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
Like many of its Caribbean neighbors, it has changed hands repeatedly: the Siboney, Arawaks and the Caribs saw their island seized by the Spanish, then the British, who brought along African slaves.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2014
We remember Columbus and the Arawaks, Cortes and the Aztecs, even the fate of the Tlingit in the generations after La Perouse.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
