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ARAWAK (" meal-eaters," in reference to cassava, their staple food)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 322 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARAWAK (" meal-eaters," in reference to cassava, their staple food) , a tribe of
South
  American Indians of Dutch and British
Guiana
 . The Arawaks have given their name to a linguistic stock of
South
  America, the Arawakan, which includes many once powerful tribes. The Arawakans were once numerous, their tribes stretching from southern Brazil and Bolivia to Central America, occupying the whole of the West Indies and having settlements on the Florida seaboard. They were found by the Spaniards in Haiti and possibly in the
Bahamas
 , but the Caribs had expelled them from most of the islands. The Arawaks proper were physically an undersized, weakly
people
 , peaceable agriculturists, by far the most civilized of all
Guiana
  peoples, being skilful weavers and workers in stone and gold. The
chief
  tribes which may be called Arawakan are the
Anti
 , Arawak,
Barre
 , Goajiro, Guana, Manaos, Maneteneri, Maipuri, Maranho, Moxo, Passe, Piro and Taruma.
See Everard F. im Thurn, Among the Indians of Guiana (London, 1883).


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