Download or read book Guide to the Collections from the West Indies (Classic Reprint) written by Museum Of The American Indian N. Y. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to the Collections From the West Indies Can aborigines, to meet the white invader from overseas, and the first to lose their lands and to suffer Virtual extermination at his hands. Columbus, and the early explorers following in his wake, found the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles (cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, and Jamaica) inhabited for the larger part by a number of peaceable agricultural tribes speaking similar dialects of the Arawak language, now grouped by students under the name of Taino. In the large islands of Cuba and Haiti were also found a very primitive group of Indians, in Cuba called Ciboney, which, although apparently at one period occupying large. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.