Ciboney

The Ciboney, or Siboney, were the dominant Indigenous people of central Cuba when the Spanish arrived, and were also found on western Hispaniola and possibly Jamaica. Scholars classing them as Western Taíno note their dialect was mutually intelligible with Classic Taíno, but their society was less centralized than the great chiefdoms of Hispaniola, with no island-wide political structure.

They were the most numerous group on Cuba until around 1450, when Classic Taíno migrants from Hispaniola began occupying eastern Oriente; after the Spanish invasion of Hispaniola refugees flooded in, among them the chief Hatuey, who was captured and burned in Cuba.

Diego Velázquez began the conquest of Cuba in 1511, and within a generation war, enslavement and epidemic had destroyed the island's Native communities, so the Ciboney ceased to exist as a distinct people by the late sixteenth century.