Lucayans

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The Lucayans were the indigenous Taíno-speaking people who inhabited the Bahamas and surrounding islands before European contact.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Taíno people
indigenous people
affectedBy Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED
archaeologicalCulture Lucayan culture NERFINISHED
archaeologicalEvidence burial sites
shell middens
village sites
causeOfDecline disease
enslavement
forced relocation
colonizedBy Spanish Empire NERFINISHED
continent North America
crops cassava
maize
sweet potatoes
culture Taíno culture NERFINISHED
dwellingType thatched houses
economy subsistence agriculture
encounteredBy Christopher Columbus NERFINISHED
endonym Lucayan Taíno NERFINISHED
ethnicGroupOf Bahamas NERFINISHED
fate population collapse after European contact
firstEuropeanContactYear 1492 GENERATED
inhabited Bahamas NERFINISHED
Turks and Caicos Islands NERFINISHED
language Taíno language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
locatedIn Lucayan Archipelago NERFINISHED
modernDescendants mixed-heritage Caribbean populations
practiced agriculture
fishing
hunting
presentIn Bahamian prehistory
region Caribbean
Greater Antilles periphery
relatedEthnicGroup Ciboney NERFINISHED
Greater Antillean Taíno NERFINISHED
religion Taíno religion NERFINISHED
relocatedTo Hispaniola NERFINISHED
socialOrganization village-based communities
spoke Taíno language
studiedIn Caribbean archaeology
ethnohistory
subgroupOf Taíno NERFINISHED
timePeriod pre-Columbian era
used canoes
shell tools
stone tools

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Guanahani indigenousPeople Lucayans