Reason for the migration of the indigenous people to the Caribbean and the subsequent impact of the Spanish and English settlement.

There is not a lot of information that actually validates when or how the indigenous people arrived at the Caribbean.  However, there have been some carbons dating of artifacts that the first people who migrated to Haiti, Cuba, and he Dominican Republic came from the Yucatan Peninsula.    Measures of carbon dating and traits tracing have led scientists and archaeologists to believe that the Taino people had decended from the Casmiroid people making them descendents of the Mayan tribe.  The tribes of the indigenous people and their way of life changed with the arrival of the Spaniards.  The Spaniards saw profit from the resources held by the tribes as well as land and laborers and fought to control their empires and communities.  As a result most of the indigenous tribes have become extinct. 

Other groups of the Arawak tribes of South America were able to survive better because they consisted of splintered groups that were less likely to be found or subjugated by the Spaniards.  They did not have a complex structure and began to trade with the English.  Many of them assimilated with the English, Dutch, and Spanish through the years, but there are still Arawark languages spoken in South America.