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A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492. This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered l

Taino language --- Indians of the West Indies --- Arawakan languages --- Indigenous peoples --- Languages.

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Arawakan languages --- Arawakan Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Languages --- Arawak (Indiens) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Social conditions. --- Languages. --- History --- Conditions sociales --- Langues --- Histoire --- Maipuran languages --- Maipure languages

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years and participate in the complex Vaupes social system characterized by longstanding linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies

Arawakan languages --- Areal linguistics. --- Guanano language --- Grammar. --- Indiana University, Bloomington. --- Amazon River Region --- Languages. --- Anana language --- Anano language --- Kotedia language --- Kotiria language --- Kotirya language --- Uanana language --- Wanana language --- Tucanoan languages --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Languages --- AISRI --- American Indian Studies Research Institute --- Amazonia --- Maipuran languages --- Maipure languages

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Indigenous peoples around the world are calling for control over their education in order to reaffirm their identities and defend their rights. In Latin America the indigenous peoples, national governments and international organisations have identified intercultural education as a means of contributing to this process. The book investigates education for and by indigenous peoples and examines the relationship between theoretical and methodological developments and formal practice. An ethnographic study of the Arakmbut people of the Peruvian Amazon, provides a detailed example of the social, c

Education, Bilingual -- Peru -- Madre de Dios (Dept.). --- Mashco Indians -- Education. --- Mashco Indians -- Social conditions. --- Mashco language -- Study and teaching -- Peru -- Madre de Dios (Dept.). --- Mashco language -- Writing. --- Multicultural education -- Peru -- Madre de Dios (Dept.). --- Mashco Indians --- Multicultural education --- Education, Bilingual --- Mashco language --- Latin America --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Amarakaeri language --- Amarakaire language --- Arakmbut language --- Harakmbet language --- Harakmbut language --- Masco language --- Maško language --- Moeno language --- Sirineiri language --- Arawakan languages --- Bilingual education --- Bilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Intercultural education --- Education --- Culturally relevant pedagogy --- Amarakaeri Indians --- Amarakaire Indians --- Arakmbut Indians --- Harakmbet Indians --- Harakmbut Indians --- Masco Indians --- Masko Indians --- Moeno Indians --- Sirineiri Indians --- Arawakan Indians --- Indians of South America --- Social conditions --- Study and teaching --- Writing --- Culturally sustaining pedagogy --- Education. --- Social conditions. --- Writing.