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Maroon (from the word
marronage or
cimarronaje) was a runaway slave, the the name given by the Spanish conquerers to its occupied colonies in Africa. Eventually, the terms was generalized to include any slave or any group of slaves that had rebelled or escaped from their owners. Individual groups of Maroons often joined with indigenious native tribes. Characteristics of the various cultural groups differ widely because of difference in history, geography, African Tribe, and the culture of Indigenious people throughout the
Western hemisphere. Populations of Maroons are north from the
Amazon river Basin to the American states of
Florida and
North Carolina, Islands off the coast of
Guyana,
Jamaica. Maroon settlements often possess a clannish , outsider identity.
Slaves began running away into the jungle as soon as Slavery was introduced to the Americas. Indigenious tribes provided a new home and community to those separated from their own Tribes in Africa. Maroons are an example of successful resistance to slavery.
The
Montreal Maroons were a professional
ice hockey team, in existence from
1924 to
1938, with a final record of 271-260-91, and were
Stanley Cup champions in
1926 and again in
1935.
The
Chicago Maroon is the independent student
newspaper of the
University of Chicago, in publication since
1892.