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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARAWAK (" See also:meal-eaters," in reference to See also:cassava, their See also:staple See also:food) , a tribe of See also:South See also:American See also:Indians of Dutch and See also:British See also:Guiana. The Arawaks have given their name to a linguistic stock of South See also:America, the Arawakan, which includes many once powerful tribes. The Arawakans were once numerous, their tribes stretching from See also:southern See also:Brazil and See also:Bolivia to Central America, occupying the whole of the See also:West Indies and having settlements on the See also:Florida seaboard. They were found by the Spaniards in See also:Haiti and possibly in the See also:Bahamas, but the Caribs had expelled them from most of the islands. The Arawaks proper were physically an undersized, weakly See also:people, peaceable agriculturists, by far the most civilized of all Guiana peoples, being skilful weavers and workers in See also:stone and See also:gold. The See also:chief tribes which may be called Arawakan are the See also:Anti, Arawak, See also:Barre, Goajiro, Guana, See also:Manaos, Maneteneri, Maipuri, Maranho, Moxo, Passe, Piro and Taruma. See Everard F. See also:im Thurn, Among the Indians of Guiana (See also:London, 1883).

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