The Lokono or Arawak are an Arawak people native to northern coastal areas of South America.Today, approximately 10,000 Lokono live primarily along the coasts and rivers of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Barbados and French Guiana. They speak the Arawak language, the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family, as well as various Creole languages, …

The Taíno were indigenous people of the Caribbean. At the time of European contact in the late fifteenth century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now Cuba, Dominican Republic Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, and the northern Lesser Antilles.The Taíno were the first New World peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus during his 1492 voyage.