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Q: What is an Arawak? (We get asked this a lot!)
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.