Editing Turks and Caicos Islands (section)

===Precolonial era===
The first inhabitants of the islands were the [[Arawakan language|Arawakan-speaking]] [[Taíno people]], who most likely crossed over from [[Hispaniola]] some time from AD 500 to 800.<ref name="CratonSaunders">{{cite book |last1=Craton |first1=Michael |last2=Saunders |first2=Gail |author-link2=Gail North-Saunders |year=1999 |orig-date=1992 |title=Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXOhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |volume=1 |edition=Paperback |location=Athens |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=9780820342733 |access-date=2022-03-05 |via=Google Books |archive-date=15 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115081656/https://books.google.com/books?id=lXOhAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|p=18}} Together with Taíno who migrated from Cuba to the southern Bahamas around the same time, these people developed as the [[Lucayan people|Lucayan]].<ref name="britannica.com"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Granberry |first1=Julian |last2=Vescelius |first2=Gary S. |date=1992 |title=Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles |url={{GBurl|dAD_O9tQJqkC|pg=PA80}} |location=Tuscaloosa |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=9780817351236 |via=Google Books}}</ref>{{rp|pp=80–86}} Around 1200, the Turks and Caicos Islands were resettled by Classical Taínos from Hispaniola.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Granberry |first1=Julian |last2=Vescelius |first2=Gary S. |title=Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles |year=2004 |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |isbn=0-8173-5123-X |pages=80–86}}</ref>