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Native American Tribes of Bahamas

This is an index to the Native American language and cultural information on our website pertaining to Bahamian Indian tribes. Some pages contain more information than others. If you belong to an indigenous tribe from Bahamas that is not currently listed on this page and you would like to see it here, please contact us about contributing information to our site.

The original inhabitants of the area that is now Bahamas included:

The Taino/Lucayan Indians

The Arawak Indians

The Carib Indians

The Ciboney Indians

Other resources about American Indian history, culture and society in Bahamas:

Indigenous Languages of the Caribbean
Collection of materials about the lost and endangered Indian languages of the Caribbean region.

Review of the Indigenous Caribbean
Online journal of cultural information about the Native inhabitants of the Bahamas and the Caribbean.

The Lucayan: The Indigenous people Christopher Columbus could not annihilate
The grim story of the genocide of the native people of the Bahamas.

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