This is a video for: "The Lucayan People", a brancj of the TainoPeople, who were located in Guanahani, Bahamas, USA, on "Turtle Island". The Lucayan, along with other Taino Peoples and the Arawak People were the first North American Peoples to encounter Columbus, on October 12th 1492. There are also videos in this channel for many more North, South & Central American Tribes & First Nations, Chiefs, Residential Schools, Elders, Historical Events, Indigenous Concerns, Quotes, Environmental Youth Activists.. and much more.
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"The Lucayan People", (luːˈkaɪən / loo-KY-ən), were the original residents of the Bahamas, before the European conquest of the Americas. They are a branch of the Taino People, who inhabited most of the Caribbean Islands, at the time. The Lucayan People were the first Indigenous Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus. Shortly after contact, the Spanish kidnapped and enslaved Lucayans, with the genocide culminating in complete eradication of Lucayan people from the Bahamas, by 1520. The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish word "Lucayos", itself, a hispanicization, derived in turn from the Taino word: "Lukku-Cairi", (which the people used for themselves), meaning: "people of the islands".
The Lucayan did not know it was October 12th 1492. They did not know, that their island, in what would become, the Bahamas, had been spotted by Spanish explorers, led by a Genoese man named, Christopher Columbus. And they did not know, that, in less than 30 years, their island would be empty, from the coming genocide. As Columbus and his men approached, the Lucayans greeted them warmly, offering food and water and he said: “..we understood, that they had asked us, if we had come from heaven”, he wrote in his journal. Then, he added, “With 50 men they can all be 'subjugated' and made to do what is required of them.” Some of them, he noticed, were wearing 'gold' nose rings. Columbus and his crew stayed just long enough to kidnap a few inhabitants, before sailing away to explore other islands, filled, with more Indigenous people. Across the Caribbean, the Spanish were responsible for the deaths of "12 to 15 million Indigenous people."
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Many Thanks & Much Respect To: The Lucayan, Taino & Arawak Peoples..; En.Wikipedia.Org..; NationalPost.com..; JORGE & VALERIE ESTEVEZ and BEHIKE LUIS RAMOS..; AREITO..; ARAWAK-TAINO SINGERS..; KEVIN MacLEOD..; BRIAN KEANE..; SUPERTRAMP..; THE RELAXED GUY..; SANAKORI RAMOS..; AURA SUREY..; JOAN HENRY..; ULALI.. and to all the other brothers and sisters who have contributed to this video with photos and/or, in any other way.
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