Best thing I've read this morning (morning in the US Pacific Northwest). Had to go look up Suriname, and the history of Dutch colonialism, just for background. The internet is a wonder for such curiosity. Imagine my surprise to learn there is an Arawak component to Suriname--the same tribe I researched in the Bahamas in the late 1960s, trying to trace their migration down through the Americas, out to the coast, and eventually some of them as far as the Bahamas. Also, my stepfather was part of American forces involved in liberating the Dutch East Indies.
Best thing I've read this morning (morning in the US Pacific Northwest). Had to go look up Suriname, and the history of Dutch colonialism, just for background. The internet is a wonder for such curiosity. Imagine my surprise to learn there is an Arawak component to Suriname--the same tribe I researched in the Bahamas in the late 1960s, trying to trace their migration down through the Americas, out to the coast, and eventually some of them as far as the Bahamas. Also, my stepfather was part of American forces involved in liberating the Dutch East Indies.