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Lucayan people
Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas
Lucayan people
The Lucayan people ( loo-KY-ən) were the Indigenous people of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands before the European colonisation of the Americas. According to some scholars, including Julian Granberry and Gary Vescelius, they were a branch of the Taínos who inhabited most of the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Other scholars, including L. Antonio Curet, do not classify Lucayans as Taínos. The Lucayans were the first Indigenous Americans encountered by Christopher Columbus (in October 1492). Shortly after contact, the Spanish kidnapped and enslaved Lucayans with the displacement culminating in the complete eradication of the Lucayan people from the Bahamas by 1520. The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, itself a hispanicization derived from the Lucayan Lukku-Cairi, which the people used for themselves, meaning "people of the islands". The Lucayan word for "island", cairi, became cayo in Spanish and "cay" in English [spelled "key" in American English]. Some...
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