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  Guanajatabey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Guanajatabey were indigenous inhabitants of Cuba, They numbered about 100,000 and had lived on the island since at least 1000 B.C. Hunters, gatherers, and farmers, these native Cubans cultivated cohiba (tobacco), a crop upon which the island's economy would one day depend.
Unfortunately, the Guanajatabeys became extinct before they could be studied, and hence it has been impossible to learn the nature and affiliation of their language.
Columbus had contact with the Guanajatabeys on the western end of Cuba, who were remnants of the original population of the islands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guanajatabey   (381 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Guanajatabey
Guanajatabey (the group that would come to be known as the Arawaks), numbered about 100,000 and had lived on the island since at least 1000 B.C. Hunters, gatherers, and farmers, these native Cubans cultivated cohiba (tobacco), a crop upon which the island's economy would one day depend.
Unfortunately,the Guanajatabeys became extinct before they could be studied, and hence it has been impossible to learn the nature and affiliation of their language.
Columbus had contact with the Guanajatabeys on the western end of Cuba, who were a relict of the original population of the islands.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Guanajatabey   (522 words)

  
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The Guanajatabey speakers were the survivors of an earlier population who lived on the western end of Cuba.
Unfortunately, the Guanajatabeys became extinct before they could be studied, and hence it has been impossible to learn the nature and affiliation of their language (Loven 1935:3 ff.).
The Guanajatabey people and their culture became extinct before they could be studied, but Indians living in other parts of Cuba told the conquistadors that the Guanajatabeys were "savages having neither houses nor farms, subsisting on game captured in the mountains, or on turtles and fish," and added that they dwelt in caves (Cosculluela 1946:11).
muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/art/ROUSE-01.ART   (3126 words)

  
 The Cuba Free Press Project - El Proyecto Cuba Prensa Libre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The pollsters would be from the Caribe tribe, but they would disguise themselves as Tainos, Guanajatabeyes, or Siboneyes, depending on the situation.
The chief could, perhaps, have the support of the Guanajatabeyes but these bureaucrats were so stupid, that even though they might support him they could, in error, vote against him.
The Unity Kettle was guarded by two Guanajatabey youngsters who belonged to the "El Indio Hatuey" children's group.
www.cubafreepress.org /art/cubap971010c.html   (482 words)

  
 Touristic Excellencies of the Caribbean & Americas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In the same breath, the Indians of the Orinoco River used to see spiritual usefulness in them and included conches in their religious rituals.
On the other hand, the West Indies' Guanajatabey and Auanabey Indians used to pulverize conches and wrap the resulting ground powder with the tobacco leaves they inhaled.
The combination was said to trigger ecstasies and hallucinations of the behiques (witches and imps).
www.excelencias.com /articulo.asp?rev=ex&edc=45&art=476   (2192 words)

  
 Cuba Junky - Vinales
Exploring caves to the tune of haunting tales
It was here that the Guanajatabey Indians built their primitive homes in caves hollowed out of the limestone mogotes, where relics of this nomadic people have been found along with fossils of Pleistocene mammals embedded in the rock.
Deep inside the caves, albino fish swim and butterfly bats flit.
www.xs4all.nl /~verlaan1/pinar-del-rio/vinales-home.htm   (1306 words)

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