<P> In Puerto Rico, the rural inhabitants are called Jibaros . It should be noted that the term jíbaro, according to the Catholic online encyclopedia, is also the name of a tribal group in South America, it meant "mountain men ." Jíbaro means "People of the Forest" in the Taíno language . So the term obviously came with them as they immigrated from South America . However "jíbaro"--as is used in Puerto Rico, is not used the same in Cuba or the Dominican Republic, which were populated with the very same Taíno people . In Cuba the word jibaro is used to denote something wild or untamed, such as "perros jibaros" or wild dogs . </P> <P> The term Guajira / Guajiro, also refers to indigenous Arawak nation of the Guajira Peninsula between Venezuela and Colombia . For a small compendium of myths of this Nation please see: de Cora, Maria Manuela 1972 . Kuai - Mare . Mitos Aborígenes de Venezuela . Monte Avila Editores Caracas . </P> <P> The Arawak, Caribe and other Meso American coast and the Amazonian cultures can be considered as part of a tenuous continuum of nations, linked by some shared vocabulary, ethnic links, agricultural practices, reinforced by bride abduction, and continuous exogamy . After the violence of the Spanish Conquest, and subsequent events of African Slavery and rebellion, nations and cultures with diverse amounts of Arawak ethnicity, culture, and / or traditions transmuted and arose . Some of these Nations had mixed, or even predominantly African roots and include the Cimarrón of Cuba and the Maroon (people) of Jamaica and Guyana . </P>

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