Fully documented Amerindian settlement dates to between about 350 and 650 CE.
Anthro2: We cousins dug up an Amerindian when we were 12-years old.
Indigenous Amerindian tribes have been present in the area for thousands of years.
At the same period, some Amerindian families, or"Bugres" as they were commonly identified,
also settled there.
MtDNA haplogroups analysis shows no evidence of a significant maternal Amerindian contribution to any of the 10 populations.".
He was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and
head of state in the Anglophone Caribbean to have Amerindian ancestry.
Mestizos(mixed European and Amerindian) are the largest ethnic group in Paraguay,
Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador and the second group in Peru.
Europeans carried diseases that killed millions of Amerindians,
and within 100 years of the arrival of these outsiders, the Amerindian population was reduced by 90 percent.
The word hurricane, used in the North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific,
is derived from the name of a native Caribbean Amerindian storm god, Huracan, via Spanish huracán.
The demographics and culture of the population here, from ethnicity to languages spoken,
have been influenced by its long history of Amerindian peoples, the Inca Empire, and Spanish colonialists.
Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early
16th century led to a massive decline in the Amerindian population, that by 1541 a Spanish writer claimed they were uninhabited.
Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish Empire in the early
16th century led to a massive decline in the Amerindian population, so that by 1541 a Spanish writer claimed they were uninhabited.
Frequent slave-raiding missions by the Spanish
Empire in the early 16th century led to a massive decline in the Amerindian population of Barbados
so that by 1541 a Spanish writer could claim they were uninhabited.