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Arawak The Arawak people were one of the largest indigenous groups in South America and the Caribbean. They inhabited a vast territory that included present-day Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Lesser Antilles.
The Arawaks lived in theocratic kingdoms, with a hierarchically arranged pantheon of gods, called zemis, and village chiefs, or caciques. The zemis were represented by icons of wood, stone, bones, and human remains.
The ‘Conuco,’ loosely translates to ‘the garden' in Taíno, and is central to the Indigenous life-way; this is where we grow our foods and medicines. It is a system of growing plants in which each plant benefits and supports the plants around it. This is the sustenance that ensures the wealth and health of the community.
The Arawaks were the first people to live in the Caribbean islands and parts of South America. They were also the first to be seen by Columbus and his men. Their name, pronounced “air-ah-wack”, refers to their main crop, cassava root.
The Arawaks are an indigenous group from South America that historically inhabited the territory bordering the Caribbean Sea, mainly what is now known as Venezuela and the countries located in Central America. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the Arawaks were a flourishing indigenous civilization.
The Arawak are a group of peoples Indigenous to the Caribbean and South America. They are believed to have originally been from the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela. This once vibrant community had an estimated population in the millions until the Spanish conquistadors came along.
Arawak, American Indians of the Greater Antilles and South America. The Taino, an Arawak subgroup, were the first native peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus on Hispaniola. The island Arawak were virtually wiped out by the combination of Old World diseases and Spanish violence and oppression.
A Conuco is a Taino gardening practice. They are mounded gardens, however they were not considered just gardens, they were living spirits, alive. This life is evident, just look under the soil and there is a world of life.
The Taíno people, or Taíno culture, has been classified by some authorities as belonging to the Arawak, as they were descended from the same language family. The early ethnohistorian, Daniel Garrison Brinton, called these the “Island Arawak.”