Arawak Tribe
Arawak Indians, Arawakan Colony. In addition to the many proofs of constant communication between the tribes of Florida and those of the West Indian Islands from the earliest period, it is definitely known that a colony of Indians from Cuba, in quest of the same mythic fountain of youth for which Ponce de Leon afterward searched, landed on the south west coast of Florida, within the territory of the Calusa, about the period of the discovery of America, and that they were held as prisoners by the chief of that tribe and formed into a settlement whose people kept their … Read more