During the colonial period, thousands of North American native
peoples traveled to Cuba independently as traders, diplomats,
missionary candidates, immigrants, or refugees; others were
forcibly transported as captives, slaves, indentured laborers, or
prisoners of war. Over the half millennium after Spanish contact,
Cuba also served as the principal destination and residence of
peoples as diverse as the Yucatec Mayas of Mexico; the Calusa,
Timucua, Creek, and Seminole peoples of Florida; and the Apache and
Puebloan cultures of the northern provinces of New Spain. Many
settled in pueblos or villages in Cuba that endured and evolved
into the nineteenth century as urban centers, later populated by
indigenous and immigrant Amerindian descendants and even their
mestizo, or mixed-blood, progeny. In this first comprehensive
history of the Amerindian diaspora in Cuba, Jason Yaremko presents
the dynamics of indigenous movements and migrations from several
regions of North America from the sixteenth through nineteenth
centuries. In addition to detailing the various motives influencing
aboriginal migratory processes, Yaremko uses these case studies to
argue that Amerindians-whether voluntary or involuntary
migrants-become diasporic through common experiences of
dispossession, displacement, and alienation within Cuban colonial
society. Yet, far from being merely passive victims acted upon, he
argues that indigenous peoples were cognizant agents still capable
of exercising power and influence to act in the interests of their
communities. His narrative of their multifaceted and dynamic
experiences of survival, adaptation, resistance, and negotiation
within Cuban colonial society adds deeply to the history of
transculturation in Cuba, and to our understanding of indigenous
peoples, migration, and diaspora in the wider Caribbean world.
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