The Lucayan people (/luːˈkaɪən/ loo-KY-ən) were the original residents of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation...

Republic. The Lucayan Archipelago was named for the original native Lucayan people. Julian Granberry and Gary Vescelius suggest the following Lucayan (Taíno)...

Lucayan may refer to: Lucayan Archipelago, comprising the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands Lucayan people, the original inhabitants of the Bahamas...

east of Acklins Island and west of Mayaguana Island. The indigenous Lucayan people called the islands Amaguaya, meaning "toward the middle lands". The...

places. Acklins is home to numerous Lucayan people sites. An ancient site, thought to be one of the largest Lucayan settlements in The Bahamas, sits along...

(104 mi) long by 64 km (40 mi) wide at the widest point. The indigenous Lucayan people called the island Habacoa (or Babucca) meaning "large upper outer land"...

of the Spanish in the early 16th century largely destroyed the native Lucayan and Taino populations, who were enslaved and transported to other colonies...

consumed in The Bahamas since the settlement of the islands by the Lucayan people although the increasing harvest of juvenile conches has negatively impacted...

glacial shifting. The first known settlers to the Bahamas were the Lucayan people, relatives of the Arawaks who populated the Caribbean around 600 A.D...

Gambier, Old Fort Bay, Carmichael Road, and Love Beach. The Indigenous Lucayan people called the island Nema, meaning "middle-water". The name New Providence...

Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its...

Jaragua. Caonabo was not native to Hispaniola, rather he was born on the Lucayan Archipelago of the Bahamas. The historian Bartolomé de las Casas, one of...

erected by the Franciscan "Brother Jerome" (John Hawes). The indigenous Lucayan people called the island Guanima, meaning "middle waters land". The first white...

Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies. It is the largest...

needed] The practice of cranial deformation was also practiced by the Lucayan people of the Bahamas and the Taínos of the Caribbean. Proto Nazca elongated...

as Toronto, Canada. The population in 2010 was 6,928. The indigenous Lucayan people called the Exuma Cays as Curateo, meaning "outer far distant land"....

district council are in Matthew Town. The original settlers were the Lucayan people, who arrived sometime between 500 and 800 CE, crossing in dugout canoes...

The Bahamas were first inhabited by the Lucayan people in 500-800 AD. It is unknown if the Lucayan people inhabited West End specifically. However,...

Island) in the north-west, and Castle Island in the south. The indigenous Lucayan people called the island Jumento, meaning "upper land of the middle distance"...

colonization, the Turks and Caicos Islands were inhabited by Taíno and Lucayan peoples. The first recorded European sighting of the islands now known as the...

stations, horseback riding, and nature trails for hiking. The indigenous Lucayan people called the island Guateo, meaning "distant land". List of islands of...

Westminster system. Originally inhabited by the Lucayan people, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus's first...

visited by Columbus, which he called Fernandina and which the indigenous Lucayan people called Yuma, meaning "middle high land". However, a variety of other...

Part of a series on the History of the Bahamas Pre-Columbian Bahamas Lucayan people Columbus' voyage to Guanahani Spanish Bahamas Eleutheran Adventurers...

the name later became Eleuthera. The island's original inhabitants, the Lucayans, had been decimated through the slaving activities of the Spanish and the...

(Spanish: Diego Colón) was a Lucayan Taíno taken from the island of Guanahani and adopted by Christopher Columbus. Diego's Lucayan name is unknown, but he...

indigenous population of the Caribbean islands consisted of the Taíno of the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles and the northern Lesser Antilles, the...

indigenous population had been devastated. When it was realized that the Lucayan people of Bahamas were practiced at diving for conchs the Spanish sent to the...

Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945. Routledge. "Lesotho's people plead with South Africa to annex their troubled country". The Guardian....

arrival of people in the islands now known as the Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan...