Talk:Lucayan people

Guanahani - San Salvador
The question of which island was Guanahani, renamed by Columbus to San Salvador, is contentious. However, the text in the article reflects the opinions expressed in the cited references by historians. Other claims or interpretations need to be supported by reliable sources. In my opinion, that means not sourced to the proposers of theories, but to third-party sources who have evaluated the various claims. I might add that the topic is not central to this article, and the article should probably say less about the topic than it does now, rather than more. -- Donald Albury 00:42, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Artificial cranial deformation
According to a PBS documentary on blue holes, the lucayans practiced this (skull found in a blue hole there from 800ya).Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:43, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Edit to Luacayan people
I have reverted your most recent edit (this) to Lucayan people because you introduced a number of errors. I think the phrase you added, At the end of his first voyage, ... before the sentence, Columbus kidnapped serveral Lucayans ... is misleading, as Columbus did not return to the Bahamas after visiting Cuba. Thus, the Lucayans were captured early in the period when Columbus was in the West Indies. You incorrectly changed, Spanish exploitation of the labor of the natives of Hispaniola rapidly reduced that population to Spanish exploitation rapidly reduced the Lucayan population, which is wrong ("that population" refers back to the closest previous noun phrase, "natives of Hispaniola"). You changed, the Spanish began capturing Lucayans in the Bahamas for use as laborers in Hispaniola to the Spanish began enslaving and selling Lucayans in the Bahamas for labor in Hispaniola. The captured Lucayans were not sold in the Bahamas, but were sold in Hispaniola. There is also the argument (which I am uncomfortable with) that the Lucayans were placed into the Encomienda system in Hispaniola, rather than slavery (the fact that some Lucayans were sold to be pearl divers on Cubaqua Island does sound like slavery). We need to go by what reliable sources say, however. I also think we need to be careful about extending descriptions of Taino customs and housing to the Lucayans. Keegan is clear that Lucayan society was less complex than the Taino society on Hispaniola. Unless a reliable source specifically states that cetain aspects of Taino culture were also found in the Lucayan culture, we should be not be adding such to this article, except possibly for purposes of comparison. - Donald Albury 14:34, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

This discussion was started by Donald Albury, who edited my User Page with this message instead of editing the Talk post. I will split your statements into brackets for discussion For ease of conversation, please reply to each post with my reply instead of everything all at once. Calabax (talk) 04:51, 14 June 2023 (UTC)


 * I have apologized on your talk page for posting on your user page. I intended to post on your talk page, but I somehow ended up posting to your user page. Again, I apologize for that. Now, do you have any specific responses to the points I made in my post? The content I restored is supported by Keegan's book. Do you know of a reliable source that supports the changes you made to the article? Donald Albury 15:08, 14 June 2023 (UTC)