Lucayan

Lucayan

The Lucayan were Arawakan People who inhabited the Bahamas at the time of Christopher Columbus' landing on October 12, 1492. They are widely thought to be the first Amerindians encountered by the Spanish. Early accounts describe them as a peaceful people. Before Columbus' arrival, there were about 20,000 Lucayans, but because of slavery, diseases and other hardships brought about by the arrival of the Europeans, by 1517, they were virtually non-existent.

There is currently a research project into the culture of the Lucayan people being conducted by the students of The Cape Eleuthera Island School, Eleuthera, Bahamas.

ee also

*List of Taínos
*Taínos
*Lucayan archipelago
*The Island School


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