According to A People's History of the United States, what was the ultimate fate of the Arawak Indians?

The ultimate
fate of the Arawak Indians was to
die out.  They were killed off by a variety of factors that
were connected to
the coming of the Spaniards to the New World.

In Chapter 1

of this book, Zinn is trying to emphasize the idea that Columbus was not really a very
good
person and that we should think of him as someone who was guilty of
genocide.  Zinn starts the
chapter out by talking about how good the Arawak
people were.  He argues that they were generous
and friendly.  He is trying
to contrast this with the greed and the desire to dominate others
that the
Spanish felt. 

Zinn emphasizes this because it is important to
him
to point out that these gentle people were utterly destroyed by the
coming of the Spanish. 
Therefore, he tells us that the Arawaks died out
completely.  He says

A report of the
year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or
their descendants left on the
island.

href="http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html">http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html