Santo Domingo, DR – In the next decade (2021-2030) the territory of the island of Hispaniola made up of the Dominican…
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Did You Know? The Natives of Haiti
Long before Africans were brought to Haiti’s shores, indigenous groups inhabited the land that would become Hispaniola and later Haiti or as they called it, Ayiti — the land of the mountains. At one point, Haiti was inhabited by three distinct indigenous populations — the Guanahatabey, the Arawaks or Tainos, and the Caribs. The Arawaks/Tainos originated from the Orinoco and Amazon basins, while the Caribs came from South America.