A member of an indigenous Caribbean people who lived in Cuba and nearby islands before European contact.
From Taíno (Caribbean indigenous language), the Ciboney were an actual pre-Columbian culture. Their name likely relates to words in Arawakan languages, and was preserved in historical records of early European exploration.
The Ciboney were one of the earliest Caribbean peoples, and archaeologists still debate whether they were there before the Taíno or lived alongside them—their name survived European colonization in historical texts and place names.
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