Maroon
Maroon is a
colour mixture composed of
brown and
purple. It
vibrates in the
visible spectrum at a
wavelength of about ?-? nanometres.
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A
Maroon (from the word
marronage or
cimarrón) was a runaway
slave. 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
indigenous tribes. Characteristics of the various
cultural groups differ widely because of difference in
history,
geography, African origin, and the culture of Indigenous people throughout the
Western hemisphere. Populations of Maroons are found north from the
Amazon river Basin to the American states of
Florida and
North Carolina. Maroons played an important role in the histories of
Brazil,
Suriname, and
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. Indigenous 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.
A name for a Maroon village is a palenque. The palenqueros developed a Creole language mixing Spanish and their African languages. Other Maroon Creole languages were Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo.
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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.
See
marooning for the act of leaving someone on a desert island.