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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arawaks
		Tribes speaking dialects of the Arawak language are met with in and between Indians of other linguistic stocks, from the sources of the Paraguay to the northwestern shores of Lake Maracaybo (Goajiros), from the eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia to the Atlantic coast in Guyana.
		The Arawaks were met by Columbus in 1492, on the Bahamas, and later on in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
		Missionary work among the Arawaks of Guyana and on the banks of the Orinoco began, in a systematic manner, in the second half of the seventeenth century, and was carried on, from the Spanish side, among the Maypures of the Orinoco, from the French side along the coast and the Essequibo River.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01680c.htm (1948 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		The Arawakan languages are spoken over a large swath of territory, from the eastern slopes of the central Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, across the Amazon basin of Brazil, southward into Paraguay and northward into to Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia on the northern coast of South America.
		In the seventeenth century, the language of the Island Carib was described by European missionaries as two separate unrelated languages — one spoken by the men of the society and the other by the women.
		The language spoken by the woman belonged to the Arawakan language family, but was not closely related to the Taíno language or to the Arawak language proper.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Arawakan_languages (707 words)

	Learn more about Native American in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first Native American group encountered by Columbus, the 250,000 Arawaks of Haiti, were violently enslaved.
		The experience in the boarding schools which existed from 1875 to 1928 was difficult for Indian children who were forbidden to speak their native languages and in numerous other ways forced to adopt white cultural practices.
		Military defeat, cultural pressure, confinement on reservations, forced cultural assimilation, the outlawing of native languages and culture, forced sterilizations, termination policies of the 50's and 60's, and (especially) slavery have had deleterious effects on Native Americans' mental and ultimately physical health.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/na/native_american.html (2081 words)

	98.03.04: The Taínos of Puerto Rico: Rediscovering Borinquen
		The Taínos are now extinct as a distinct and separate cultural group, but their legacy remains in the language, customs, and culture of some of the islands of the Caribbean: Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica.
		The language of the Taínos was not a written one, and primary sources are scarce.
		In their Arawak language, Taíno means the good ones.Thus, when Columbus arrived in 1493, they identified themselves as Taíno, the good and gentle people.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1998/3/98.03.04.x.html (6524 words)

	The history of prehistoric archaeological research in Suriname
		In Suriname in particular, where some Indian groups still live more or less uninfluenced by Western culture, the richness of these aboriginal cultures can easily be compared with the scanty remains recovered from archaeological sites.
		It is thus found that featherwork, basketry, social organization, the ceremonial customs, myths of origin, language, and many other aspects of the prehistoric groups have largely been lost.
		De Goeje, C.H., 1928: The Arawak language of Guiana - Kon.
	home.planet.nl /~vrstg/guianas/suriname/rgdpaper.htm (8304 words)

	The Food Timeline: history notes--meals & restaurants
		When the word first entered the English language, in the 17th century, it meant a wooden framework such as could be used for storage or sleeping on, without a culinary context.
		"An Arawak barbacoa was a grating of thin green sticks upon which meat was grilled above and open fire....The Indians sliced their meat into thin strips, laid it upon the barbacoa and cooked it slowly, exposing it to the smoke of the wood fire below, which was constantly enhanced with the fat of the animal.
		It first appeared in the French language in 1884, and perhaps comes from the Russian word bistro (quick), which the Cossacks used to get quick service at a bar during the Russian occupation of Paris in 1815.
	www.foodtimeline.org /foodfaq7.html (17612 words)

	Detailed Staff Information - Department of Anthropology - University of Alberta
		Recent Publications: (1997) "Ritual, Language, and Social Memory in a Nineteenth Century Chinese Secret Sworn Brotherhood," forthcoming in a special issue of Michigan Discussions in Anthropology on "Linguistic Form and Social Action" Vol.
		Princeton: Princeton University Press; "Language in Society," in The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues and Decisions, ed.
		, ethnohistory of the South American Chaco, Guaraní and Arawak language and culture.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /anthropology/detailedstaffinformation.cfm (3390 words)

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