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The Lucayans
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Plants They Grew
The Lucayans grew cotton and tobacco, and used other plants including agave, furcraea and hibiscus for fiber in fishing nets.
Shelter
Lived in multi-household houses shaped like a round tent, tall, made of poles and thatch, with an opening at the top to let smoke out.
The Lucayans
Diet
The Lucayans grew root crops and hunted, fished and gathered wild foods. The staple crop of the Lucayans was manioc. The Spanish reported that the Tainos also grew sweet potatoes, cocoyams, peanuts, and beans. The Lucayans probably took most, if not all, of those crops with them to the Bahamas.
The Lucayans were distinguishable by the size of their houses, the organization and location of their village, the resources they used, and the material used in their pottery.
Christopher Columbus's diary is the only source of first-hand observations of the Lucayans. Other information about the customs of the Lucayans has come from archaeological investigations and comparison with what is known of Taino culture in Cuba and Hispaniola.
The Spanish began seizing Lucayans as slaves within a few years of Columbus's arrival, and they had all been removed from the Bahamas by 1520.
The Lucayans were the original inhabitants of the Bahamas before the arrival of the Tainos ( one of the major indigenous peoples of the Caribbean), who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the time.
The Lucayans were some of the first inhabitants of the Americas encountered by Christopher Columbus.