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The Lucayan were those Arawak which inhabited the Bahamas at the time of Christopher Columbus' landing. They were the first Amerindians encountered by the Spanish (Oct. 12, 1492).


Columbus wrote, "As soon as I arrived I took some of the natives by force."


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Lucayan History (491 words)
Using the Lucayans as miners and pearl-divers in a de facto slave system, the new arrivals worked many of them death.
He hastily summoned the Museum and the paddle was removed to a stable environment.
For a picture of the only other Lucayan Taino canoe paddle ever found (now housed at the Smithsonian), see: "Clues to Lucayans History on Samana" in National Geographic, November 1996 (Vol.
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