Arawakan

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• Practically the whole of the West Indies were occupied by tribes of two linguistic stocks, the earlier of the Arawakan origin, the more recent being Cariban invaders from the northern coast of South The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• Columbia, speaking dialects of the Arawakan stock. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• One great South American stock — the Arawakan — after occupying the Antilles, completed the chain of connection by planting The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• The Enawene-nawe speak an Arawakan language, which is very similar to that spoken by the Paresí. Everything2 New Writeups
• The Arawakan aborigines were about in the cultural status of our own Gulf tribes, subsisting chiefly by agriculture and practicing the simpler arts, but unfitted by their peaceful habit to withstand the inroads of the predatory Carib, whose very name is synonymous with "cannibal". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• Despite the divine origins, thunderstones are not uncommon in Haiti; Westerners think of them as pre-Columbian axe heads and attribute their origins to the Arawakan Indians. The Serpent and the Rainbow
• Within days of establishing Jinogojé, Schultes began planning an expedition to the homeland of the Yukuna, an Arawakan people inhabiting the Miritiparaná, a remote tributary of the Caquetá born in the lightly forested uplands south of the Apaporis. One River
• They belong to the great Arawakan linguistic stock, to which along belong the warlike The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• Of these, the Moxos and Paicone, with all their dialects, belong to the widespread Arawakan stock of eastern and central Brazil; the Movima, Cayubaba, Itonama, Canichana, and The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman