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	Carib Indians on Dominica
		For another 130 years the Caribs were left to themselves, shadowy figures hardly seen by the growing Creole society of African slaves, free men and European officials and landowners.
		Carib handicrafts are unique because the designs have been handed down from one generation to the next since long before the time Columbus.
		Carib work is produced from the outer skin of the larouma reed and therefore has a firmer texture.
	www.dominicacompanies.com /features/caribpeople.html (1717 words)

	Dominica
		Carib Indians over the age of 18 who reside there were eligible to vote for the Chief and six members of the Council of Advisors (they also were eligible to vote in national elections).
		An estimated 25 percent of the Carib Indian population was believed to be in mixed marriages or relationships.
		One of the major issues facing the Carib Indians was the increasing encroachment on their territory by farmers, particularly on the southern side of the reservation.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18328.htm (3428 words)

	Dominica's Carib Indians - the Kalinago - our Indigenous People
		The Caribs had settled on Dominica, but their ancestors had come from South America: down the Orinoco river and then up the Caribbean Sea where they settled on the most rugged of the islands in order to protect themselves from enemies.
		The Caribs welcomed Columbus and his men and in return Columbus worked them, almost to the verge of extinction.
		The Caribs have their own chief and also a representative in the house of assembly.
	www.avirtualdominica.com /caribs.htm (510 words)

	Barbados History , Travel Information
		The Arawak Indians were driven out around 1200 AC, by Indians invading from Venezuela, who are believed by many to be the Carib Indians.
		Another account notes that the Carib Indians did not leave on their own but were used as slaves during the time that Spain had control over Barbados in 1492.
		It is believed that along with slavery, European small pox, and the tuberculosis the Carib Indians all died.
	www.barbados-vacation.info /Barbados-History.php (920 words)

	Disney's Carib Indian cannibals deserve boycott : ICT [2005/04/14]
		Some 3,000 Caribs live in the Carib territory on the island of Dominica, which has a population of 70,000.
		Neither the wanton killing and rape by Spanish colonists of the first group of Caribs encountered - recorded during the same trip by others on the ship - nor the Caribs' fierce, valiant defense of their territories and people are apparently proper subjects for a Disney movie.
		Some Caribs, as can be expected, have applied for work as extras in the movie, a fact that has made some crow that this somehow exonerates Disney for its production.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096410746 (883 words)

	Caribs. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The original name by which the Caribs were known, Galibi, was corrupted by the Spanish to Caníbal and is the origin of the English word cannibal.
		The Caribs were expert navigators, crisscrossing a large portion of the Caribbean in their canoes.
		The Carib, or Cariban, languages are a separate family.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/CaribInd.html (279 words)

	Cultural Links
		Caribs and Arawaks originated in the delta forests of the Rio Orinoco, and hated each other as far back as legend can tell.
		Fifty Indian fighters from the Venezuelan frontier as well as a hundred adventurers from Puerto Rico and Hispaniola were poised to ransack the cave and rescue the prisoners if the king would make available two shallow draft, fast galleys.
		As it was, the Spaniards mostly gave the implacable Caribs a wide berth, and into this vacuum sailed increasing numbers of French, Dutch and British corsairs, whom the Caribs often welcomed as enemies of their enemies.
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /caribs.htm (3898 words)

	The Caribs of Dominica: Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
		Descendants of the adventrous seafarers from the Orinoco and Northwest Guyana, the Caribs-from whom the Caribbean got its name-live in eight villages nestled in the mountains and mountain slopes of the east coast of Dominica.
		In one case, a Carib woman in a common-law relationship with a non-Carib man who tried to build a house on land reserved for her family received threats that her house would be burned down.
		As to the question of whether the Caribs benefit from cultural and educational institutions specifically designed to meet their needs, it was stated that they benefited from such institutions to a limited extent only, since formal educational institutions were fully integrated.
	www.centrelink.org /Dominica.html (3803 words)

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		The Red Caribs are the descendants of the original Caribs.
		The Black Caribs are the children of the original Caribs mixed with Afican slaves.
		The Carib Indians on the land lived in small villages and haunted animals with bow and arrow.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/carib/page3.html (307 words)

	Dominica
		The Government built the Carib Model Village to showcase Carib culture; however, it was not yet open to the public.
		Non-Caribs may become Carib Indians if they are invited to live in the territory with a Carib and then do so for 12 years.
		The 1903 land grant, on which the Carib Indians based their claim to the land, does not clearly delineate the reservation boundaries.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27894.htm (3482 words)

	The Indigenous People and Their Place in Dominica
		This writer is of the opinion that the Admiral met proud, loving and trusting Carib Indians who lived a simple life of fishing in the‘Caribbean’sea, hunting and light farming in a highly organized society with rulers and laws.
		Due to the gallant fight that the bear footed and half naked Caribs put up against the highly disciplined, trained and heavily armed European armies and navy, they were depicted not as capable, competent and passionate warriors defending their homeland and culture, but unfortunately, as savages and cannibals.
		Giving the Caribs their own ministry is the last frontier of defeating this obsolete political petty bourgeois and the old and ineffective colonial hierarchical style system.
	www.thedominican.net /articles/caribs.htm (1314 words)

	Queen instead of chieftain: lady is head of Trinidad's Carib Indians
		A man was too much of a risk to the clergymen: aiming to keep the Carib Indians in check, the Spanish missionaries denied them a chieftain, but allowed them to have a queen instead.
		The island’s initial 40,000 Carib Indians were continually diminished and finally cramped together on a space of 2500 acres around Arima where a Catholic mission took care of them.
		The missionaries christened the Caribs with Spanish names and made Spanish their main language.The English, who followed as colonial rulers, closed the door to the mission and took away the Caribs’ reservation.
	www.caribbean-sun.com /Editorial/carib-indians.htm (440 words)

	Indigenous Dominica - The Caribs
		It wasn't until 1797 that the Black Caribs of St Vincent (descendants of Caribs and runaway slaves) were finally defeated by the British and dumped on the islands off Honduras and Belize.
		Intermarriage; the virtual disappearance of the Carib language, the harsh economics of small island life and the incursions of the global village (from drugs and crime to dancehall and brand name clothes) have all taken their toll on Carib identity.
		At the head of the staircase in the carving is the wrinkled figure of the sorceress Bihi, who chased her daughter and the daughter's lover Ebitimu up into the sky where the three became transfixed as the constellation Orion.
	da-academy.org /kalinago.html (4606 words)

	History of the Garinagu
		The Island Carib Indians, who called themselves Calinago, were the descendants of several waves of migration into the Caribbean by seafaring people from the Orinoco River area of South America.
		By the time first-hand descriptions of Island Carib culture were written by the missionary fathers who accommpanied the first French settlers into the South Caribbean, the Island Carib language had developed into a predominantly Arawak tongue, with only a small amount of Caribbean influence.
		The arrival of shipwrecked and runaway African slaves from nearby French and English islands during the 1600's signaled a new stage in the evolution of the Carib culture.
	www.telcomplus.net /gbrandt/Web_Dev/hopkins/garifhx.html (805 words)

	Dominica
		The steep mountains and deep valleys provided the early Carib Indians with a natural fortress against European colonizers, making Dominica one of the last islands to be fully colonized.
		Unaware that the Caribs had already named the island Waitukubuli ("Tall is her body"), Columbus renamed it Dominica, after the Spanish word for Sunday, the day of his arrival, November 3, 1493.
		The determined and often violent resistance of the island's Carib inhabitants was a major deterrent to colonization.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/59.htm (1616 words)

	caribterritory
		About 3,000 Caribs live on the island of Dominica, which has a population of 70,000.
		Many Caribs were killed by disease and war during colonisation up to the 1600s.
		But he admitted there were some members of the Carib council who did not support the campaign.
	www.mydominica.org /caribterritory.html (259 words)

	Indigenous Dominica - The Caribs
		For the first time in Dominica’s history, the Carib Indians were awarded a separate cabinet position of a full minister.
		He also envisions a tax free existence for the Carib territory and calls on the authorities to declare the area a tax and duty free zone.
		Dominica is home to about 3,000 Carib Indians, descendants of the original inhabitants of the island, who live in the Carib Territory.
	da-academy.org /kalinago_intro.html (782 words)

	The Caribs and Garifuna of St Vincent: Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
		Extract: “….The Caribs held St. Vincent in such strength that the island was one of the last of the lesser Antilles to be settled by Europeans and the first group of settlers, whether French or English, had to make treaties with the Caribs in order to get a foothold.
		The island today has very few pure Caribs, most of them have interbred with the fls and are now called fl Caribs due to the colour of their skin.
		Eventual tensions between the Caribs and the fl Caribs led to a civil war in 1700….Battles known as the Carib Wars continued between the British and the fl Caribs until the British subdued the fl Caribs in 1796.
	www.centrelink.org /StVincent.html (2300 words)

	Excite - Travel Guide - History & Culture
		The Caribs were generally hostile to all Europeans, but they tended to find the British, who claimed Carib land by royal grants, more objectionable than the French.
		The Caribs allowed the French to establish the first European settlement on the island in the early 1700s.
		A number of Yellow Caribs were moved to a reservation at Sandy Bay, in the northeastern corner of St Vincent.
	www1.excite.com /travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,caribbean-510,00.html (692 words)

	Race and History.com \| TAINO \| Caribs
		But if the linguists have clouded the issue of Arawaks with their palaver about Arawakan language speakers, they have also demystified the vulgar ideas about the Carib race, since, we are told, these 'Caribs' spoke a dialect of the Arawakan language family.
		For instance, the story was spread in the 16th century that some Dominican Caribs, after eating a Spanish friar, all fell ill. Thereafter, the Spanish, whenever they stopped off at Carib islands, they made sure to dress their sailors in sackcloth, just in case.
		The Caribs, it was thought, found Spaniards to be stringy and grisly, as opposed to the French who were rather delicious and the Dutch who tended to be fairly tasteless.
	www.raceandhistory.com /Taino/Caribs.htm (896 words)

	History of Marie-Galante with the Tourist Board
		In 1653 the Carib Indians slaughtered the few remaining colonists, who had not given into the harsh living conditions, as reprisal for rapes committed on the island of Dominica by sailors on a barge coming from Martinique.
		In light of its industrialization, it was cultivated in Guadeloupe in the beginning of 1654 thanks to deported Brazilian colonists who incited the creation of the first sugar plantations equipped with small oxen-powered mills to crush the cane.
		In 1660, at Basse-Terre Chateau, a peace treaty was signed between the Carib Indians and the French and British who authorized them to settle on the islands of Dominica and Saint Vincent.
	www.ot-mariegalante.com /histoire-gb.htm (626 words)

	Carib Territory - Maciej Swulinski
		This was so because women taken as wives by the Carib speaking men were mostly captured in raids and came from the Arawakan language tribes.
		After European colonization began in the 17th century, Carib Indians were exterminated.
		The legend also says that 'when Caribs disappear, the Master Snake has vowed to return to the underbelly of ocean.
	www.swulinski.com /travels/CaribTerritory.html (287 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda
		They were followed by the Arawaks, a peaceful Indian tribe that migrated from northern South America through the Caribbean islands and arrived on Antigua around A.D. They began slashand -burn cultivation of the island and introduced such crops as corn, sweet potatoes, beans, pineapples, indigo, and cotton.
		The Arawaks were uprooted by the Carib Indians around A.D. 1200; however, the Caribs did not settle on Antigua but used it as a base for gathering provisions (see The Pre-European Population, ch.
		Early settlement, however, was discouraged by insufficient water on the island and by Carib raids.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/92.htm (995 words)

	Quest Of The Carib Canoe
		During the journey project members met with other 'stranded Caribs' as they were; small remnants of Carib Indians who's numbers were too small to be recognized by their local governments.
		An Arawack Indian from Barbados even showed up to make symbolic piece with the Caribs, as a thousand years ago it was the Caribs who conquered the the islands as far north as The Virgin Islands from them.
		I became involved with the project near its inception and sailed with the Canoe as it was sailed, rowed, motored, towed, and sometimes pushed toward history.
	www.geocities.com /caribcanoe (373 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Dominica's Carib Indians to be portrayed as cannibals in movie sequel
		ROSEAU, Dominica: The BBC has reported that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels plan to portray Dominica's Carib Indians as cannibals.
		Carib Chief Charles Williams said talks with Disney's producers revealed there was "a strong element of cannibalism in the script which cannot be removed".
		The Caribs have long denied their ancestors practiced cannibalism.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/02/15/movie.shtml (246 words)

	History of the Taino Indians
		The Taino Indians are from the area of the Bahamas and Greater and lesser Antilles.
		However, the origin of the Taino Indians is not known for sure.
		They were enemies with their neighbors the Carib Indians.
	www.indians.org /articles/taino-indians.html (300 words)

	Carib Indians to investigate allegations of illegal baby adoptions - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The aid agency's letter was dated May 24 and signed by the fund's Dominica director, Francis Joseph.
		"The Carib council and government should immediately stop all adoption proceedings until there are clear guidelines and working procedures to supervise and help parents," according to a copy of the letter.
		The letter also says that Carib families "are forced and coerced to give their children, as young as four- and seven-months-old, away." Joseph did not provide numbers or any details on the illegal adoption process.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20050530T230000-0500_81482_OBS_CARIB_INDIANS_TO_INVESTIGATE_ALLEGATIONS_OF_ILLEGAL_BABY_ADOPTIONS.asp (216 words)

	Carib
		The Caribbean Sea as well as the English word cannibal are results of the Arawakan equivalent of Carib.
		Today the term Cariban is used to designate a linguistic group that includes not only the language of the Antillean Carib, but also many related Indian languages spoken in South America.
		The Island Carib were warlike immigrants from the mainland.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/southamerica/carib.html (181 words)

	A short history of Saint Vincent
		The inhabitants of present-day Saint Vincent, the Arawaks, are ousted by Carib Indians.
		After being disputed between France and Britain and the Carib Indians, Saint Vincent becomes a British colony in 1763.
		In 1795 the Carib Indians start a resistance, that is repressed in 1796, after which the Carib Indians are deported from the island.
	www.electionworld.org /history/saintvincent.htm (321 words)

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