Cabo Samaná: where Columbus encountered the Ciguayos
The Ciguayos (Spanish: Ciguayos) were a group of indigenous people who inhabited the Samaná Peninsula and its adjoining regions in the present-day Dominican Republic. The Ciguayos appear to have predated the agricultural Taíno who inhabited much of the island. Ciguayo was spoken on the northeastern coast of the Magua region from Nagua southward to at least the Yuna River, and throughout all of the Samana Peninsula.
Since the moment of contact early Spanish writers perceived them as a threat and portrayed them flaunting long hair and brandishing bows with poisoned arrows.[1] Their archery tradition is linked to the Kalinago, or Island Caribs.[2] Their legacy has spawned folktales, and since the 19th century, their memory has been at the center of the Dominican indigenist movement.[3]
^Granberry, Julia (1991). ""Was Ciguayo a West Indian Hokan Language?"". International Journal of American Linguistics. 57 (4): 514–19. doi:10.1086/ijal.57.4.3519737.
^Salas, Julio César (1921). Los Indios caribes : estudio sobre el origen del mito de la antropofagia. Madrid: Talleres Gráficos Lux. p. 55.
^Garía Bidó, Rafael (2010). Voces de bohío Vocabulario de la cultura taína. Santo Domingo, DR: Archivo General de la Nación. p. 7. ISBN 978-9945-020-95-3.
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(now the Dominican Republic) at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The Ciguayos appear to have predated the agricultural Taino who inhabited much of the...
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Hispaniola. There he encountered the Ciguayos, the only natives who offered violent resistance during this voyage. The Ciguayos refused to trade the amount of...
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There he encountered the Ciguayos, the only natives who offered violent resistance during this first voyage. The Ciguayos refused to trade the amount...
Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles (Guanahatabey, Macorix, Ciguayo) † (Cuba, Hispaniola) Puelche (Chile) (also known as Guenaken, Gennaken...
(1511–1764) Common languages Spanish (official) Taíno, Guanahatabey, Macorix, Ciguayo Religion Roman Catholicism Monarch • 1492–1504 Ferdinand II • 1492–1504...
distinct group of natives called the Ciguayo, who were concentrated on the Samaná Peninsula. This group, who spoke the Ciguayo language, was absorbed into the...
the northern Lesser Antilles, the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles, the Ciguayo and Macorix of parts of Hispaniola, and the Guanahatabey of western Cuba...
the Caribbean. The first migration was of pre-Arawakan people like the Ciguayo who most likely migrated from Central America. The second major migration...
2,000–3,000 persons, living mainly on the Cape of San Nicolas, in the Ciguayos, on the Samana peninsular, and on the Cape of Iguey. Latter that decade...
languages died out including the Macorix language in northern Hispaniola and Ciguayo language of the Samaná Peninsula died out in the 16th century, while the...
countries, completely replaced the indigenous languages (Taíno, Macorix and Ciguayo) of the Dominican Republic to the point where they became entirely extinct...
into conflict. The more rapacious men began to terrorize the Taíno, the Ciguayo, and the Macorix peoples. The powerful Cacique Caonabo of the Maguana Chiefdom...
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people with arrows. The Cigüayos were also apprehensive of these visitors, and on the defensive. The trade began and the Cigüayos traded a couple of their...
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