History of the Dominican Republic references on wikipedia
History_of_the_Dominican_Republic The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles. Successive waves of Arawak migrants, moving northward from the Orinoco delta in South America, settled the islands of the Caribbean. Around A.D. 600, the TaĆno Indians, a late Stone Age culture, arrived on the island, displacing the previous inhabitants.