by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Barbados was originally inhabited by Amerindian peoples, including the Arawak and later the Kalinago, before European contact. The island was claimed by England in 1625 and became a permanent English settlement in 1627, quickly developing into a major sugar-producing...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
The Bahamas was originally inhabited by the Lucayan people, an Arawakan-speaking group, when Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the Americas on the island of San Salvador in 1492. Spanish colonizers subsequently enslaved and decimated the Lucayan...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Antigua and Barbuda’s history stretches from its early Indigenous Amerindian settlers through European colonization, the plantation era, and its path to independence. The islands were originally inhabited by the Siboney, Arawak, and Carib peoples before...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Argentina’s territory was home to a diverse range of indigenous peoples, including the Diaguita in the northwest, the Guaraní in the northeast, and various hunter-gatherer groups across the Pampas and Patagonia, before European contact in the early 16th century....
by Strong Americas | Jul 15, 2026
Brazil’s story begins with its indigenous peoples, hundreds of distinct groups who had inhabited the region for thousands of years before European contact. Portuguese explorers arrived in 1500, and over the following three centuries Brazil developed into the...
