The Arawaks, or Lokono, are an indigenous people of South America and the Caribbean from the northern regions of South America that includes present-day Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname, the Guianas, and the Caribbean Lesser Antilles of Aruba, and the islands which now make up The Bahamas, Jamaica, the Greater Antilles including Hispaniola the Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and portions of the United States Virgin Islands (St. Croix).