#lucayan

[ashyth-art]

What if the Venatori still had some of Lucanis' blood left?

He's gonna wake up to Taash restraining him and Emmrich trying to keep Saayan alive after he stabbed them. He will be terrified of approaching them. 'Cause what if he hurts them again?

[vpgoldenrod]

I'd like to talk about why I hate "Indigenous People's Day." (Trigger warning for sexual violence and body horror.)

It's well meaning, I think. And for the longest I appreciated it. But part of the insidious nature of genocide is that it erases culture, and lumping the over one thousand independent tribes of the Americas as “indigenous peoples,” a broad term for people who existed in a land before they were colonized, does exactly that.

Christopher Columbus was a vile pendejo whose torture and genocide of my ancestors was so disgusting that he was arrested and tried for horrific acts that included live dismemberment, cannibalism and sexual crimes even against children. In 1500 Columbus wrote,

“A hundred castellanoes are easily obtained for a woman as a farm...and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from about nine to ten are now in demand.”

Bartolome de Las Casas was a Spanish priest and contemporary of Columbus who detailed many of his abuses. After watching Columbus and his men dismember, decapitate and otherwise murder over 3,000 Taino people in a single day wrote,

“Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel...My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”

I want day of remembrance for the Iraquios, the Cherokee, the Lenape, the Shawnee. Replacing Thanksgiving with a day of remembrance of the Wampanoag tribe would be a great start, I think.

But the story of Christopher Columbus is the story of the suffering of the Taino, the Arawak, and the Lucayan. Please remember them.

[rvexillology]

Project CARIBBEAN: Lucayan Federation

from /r/vexillology Top comment: # Project CARIBBEAN Narrative: * *Inspired by the actual events* of the establishment and quick dissolution of the [West Indies Federation (WIF)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies_Federation), **I have developed an alternative timeline** where all the European powers relinquish control of their Caribbean colonies due to having weakened global influence (*roughly around the time the actual WIF was established to explain how Venezuela and the United States keep their Caribbean territories*). Much of this is due to the United States expressing the Monroe Doctrine with force to keep Communism out of the Western Hemisphere and influence decolonization. Many of these new micro-nations begun banding together to try and deter more powerful states from turning them into protectorates. Small unions and federations formed with the eventual bigger islands interested in creating a Confederacy to exert influence on the smaller ones while work together to prevent mainland nations from pushing claims to their lands. Thus, the Caribbean Confederacy was born to try and loosely unite the many fractured islands together. # Lucayan Federation Flag: * The design is a 3:5 ratio mildly dark blue base representing the Caribbean Sea. The two white waves represent both the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands respectively. The stars on the left are arranged in placement and size based on the major islands of the [Lucayan Archipelago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucayan_Archipelago) that both nations inhabit. Initially both nations where separated during decolonization and wished to remain friendly neighbors, but the United States sought to put them under their protection against their will. Quickly a [federation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation) between the two nations formed to exert political pressure against the United States and establish their sovereignty. Enjoy! **Project CARIBBEAN Alphabetical Flag List:** (*\*Links will be added as flags are uploaded\**) * [Caribbean Confederacy](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/eikf43/project_caribbean_caribbean_confederacy_flag/) * [Cayman Protectorate](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/eip73h/project_caribbean_cayman_protectorate_flag/) * [Federal Windward Republic](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/eiyz8p/project_caribbean_federal_windward_republic/) * [Leeward Polity](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/ej2jvu/project_caribbean_leeward_polity/) * *Lucayan Federation - this flag* * Northern Leeward Union * Republic of Cuba * Republic of Jamaica * Union of Hispaniola

[ashyth-art]

i found this doodle of Lucayan from idk when. them 💕

[ashyth-art]

They're trying so hard to hide their fears and feelings from him. After all, how could the Crow-Prince ever like a former street rat like them?

[gods-favorite-person]

The Lucayan people (/luːˈkaɪən/ loo-KY-ən) were the original residents of the Bahamas before the European conquest of the Americas. They were a branch of the Tainos who inhabited most of the Caribbean islands at the time.

[pabono]

The name "Lucayan" is an Anglicization of the Spanish Lucayos, derived in turn from the Taino Lukku-Cairi (which the people used for themselves), meaning "people of the islands". (The Taino word for "island", cairi, became cayo in Spanish and "cay" /ˈkiː/ in English [spelled "key" in American English].)[1]

[ga8riel]

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