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- Q: What is an Arawak? (We get asked this a lot!)
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- A: The Arawaks were one of the two indigenous peoples living in the West Indies
- (The Caribs being the other) when Columbus came to the new world. A handsome
- and peaceful people, they lived life to its fullest and bothered no one.
- Sadly, they were enslaved by the Spanish and succumbed to European diseases
- to which they had no resistance. They are now largely forgotten by history
- except to West Indians and the Jamaican Maroons who are descended in part
- from them.
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