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Op-Ed: The Real History of Indigenous People in the Virgin Islands, Part 2

A view of the Magens Bay watershed in 1962, including the Peterborg peninsula, as seen from the Drake's Seat lookout. (Photo by Ray Miles)This is the second and final of a two-part series article on the indigenous people of the Virgin Islands. At the end of the first article, I mentioned that there were no such names as Arawaks and Caribs Indians. According to historians, Arawak is a language not a people. Thus, what is known as Arawakan is a family of languages. These languages were widely spoken by indigenous people throughout the Amazon River Basin, the Orinoco Valley, Guianas, and in Columbus’s time and throughout the Caribbean region as well.

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