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Arawak

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Ar·a·wak  (r-wäk)
n. pl. Arawak or Ar·a·waks
1. A member of a South American Indian people formerly inhabiting much of the Greater Antilles and now living chiefly in certain regions of Guiana.
2. The Arawakan language of the Arawak.
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Noun1.ArawakArawak - a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
Arawakan
Amerindian, Native American - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived
2.Arawak - a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America
Arawakan
American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians


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To persuade him, she said that she had contacted an Arawak Indian who could lead them away.
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As an informative and scholarly analytical survey of the many Native American nations ranging from the southern, central, and northern America, The Americas Might Have Been covers the Mayan, Incan, and Iroquois Confederacy, as well as the Eskimo, Taino Arawak, Navajo, Pueblo, Aztec nations, and others, providing an impressive account of the many Native American national social systems.
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Born in Jamaica and traveling between Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, and the United States before she immigrated to Canada at the age of 16, Hopkinson herself embodies an African diasporic experience: she identifies as being "predominantly of African ancestry, with chunks of Scottish, Jewish, English, Arawak, and continental Indian in the mix" (Mohanraj 2).
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