The Arkawan were originally people from Venzuela who immigrated to Jamaica and absorbed the oringinal natives there. They lived in the mountains and ren now knowns as the Taino people. When Britain took over the island of Jamaica the Spanish deserted the island before the British could occupy so many of the slaves escaped to the mountains to freedom. The escaped slaves became known as the Maroons fromm the Spanish word cimarrone, meaning, untamed or wild. The slaves made regular visits back to the settlements to free more slaves. The British attempted to fight them but they used their instinctive "jungle stealth" by stripping down and covering themselves with leaves and branches and disappearing into their surroundings.
The British finally tricked them into surrendering and promised them land to farm in a new country if they would agree to leave Jamaica. So a large number of them were shipped off to Nova Scotia to the promised land. Once there they realized that the land could not be farmed they began to complain to the government. Some of them left and migrated to the island of Victoria and some were so disgruntled that they were shipped off again to Sierra Leone in West Africa, I suggest you surf the internet to find a more completer story of the Maroons. Here is a brief timeline of the events that led to the Maroons arriving in Canada. Click on the image to englargen it.
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