prowess and individualism. While settlements had a leader‚ his authority was limited. War chiefs were chosen from among villagers based on their skill in battle. The kalinago lived separately by gender; the men lived together in a large building called a "carbet"‚ while women lived in smaller houses. Division of Labour * Early Kalinago culture was
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the attention of anthropologists twenty years ago‚ but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Creel the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin‚ although tradition states that they came from the east.... Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy which as evolved in a rich natural
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a holiday during which they celebrate the landing of the Marryshow Corporation nation ships that had brought their ancestors to Toussaint two centuries before: “Time to remember the way their forefathers had toiled and sweated together: Taino Carib and Arawak; African; Asian; Indian; even the Euro‚ though some wasn’t too happy to acknowledge that-there bloodline. All the bloods flowing into one river‚ making a new home on a new planet” (Hopkinson 18). This explanation of Jonkanoo and the life on Earth
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Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul The History of Trinidad Trinidad was inhabited by Carib and Arawak people long before Christopher Columbus arrived‚ but the recorded history of Trinidad and Tobago begins with the settlements of the islands by Spanish. Both islands were encountered by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498. Tobago changed hands between the British‚ French‚ Dutch and Courlanders‚ but eventually ended up in British hands. Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797‚ but
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In venturing to the aforementioned New World‚ Christopher Columbus systematically killed and enslaved hundreds of innocent indigenous peoples. Columbus braved the seas in 1492 to the New World in hopes of civilizing the savages and populating a so-called empty continent. Students are taught from a young age to see Columbus in a heroic light‚ despite the cataclysmic truth behind the founding of most of what we now call the North-Western Hemisphere.
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The people of this island called themselves Arawak‚ and were known for their generosity. Columbus wrote of them in his diary "They do not bear arms‚ and do not know them‚ for I showed them a sword and they took it by the edge‚ cutting themselves out of ignorance they would make fine servants with
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Bibliography: Breen H. Henry‚ St. Lucia Historical‚ Statistical‚ and Descriptive London Frank Cass Co. Ltd‚ 1971 Brownrigg‚ Beatrice The Life Letters of Sir John Moore Oxford Basil Blackwell‚ 1923 Deveaux J. Robert ‚ They Called Us Brigands Castries Optimum Printers LTD‚ 1997 Frank John‚ Eden The Memoires of Pere Labat 1693-1705 London Cass Co Ltd‚ 1970 Gachet‚ Charles A History of the Roman Catholic Church in St. Lucia Port of Spain Key Caribbean Publications Ltd‚ 1970 Gaspard
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lyricist and one who has awakened a number of people with reference to racism‚ oppression and injustice all over the world. Some of these songs have expressions of praise of Jah (God). Another aspect of Jamaican culture can be traced back to the Arawak Indians who came to Jamaica around 700 A.D. They etched petroglyphs on ceilings and walls of caverns throughout the island. Today Jamaica‚ and in particular both Kingston and Ocho Rios are the center of Caribbean art. The wife of the first prime minister
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analysed Carib warfare‚ using historical texts to understand the changes in Carib war culture and society between 1500-1820. He described Carib military tactics prior to European contact and discussed the social and ideological context in which they were deployed. He also analyzed the effect European contact had on the war culture and ideology in Carib society‚ and how this change also contributed to the historical census of the Mesoamerican group. The ritual and spiritual nature of Carib cannibalism
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were marked by upright stone dolmens‚ development of a universal language‚ and creation of a complicated religious cosmology. The Arawak/Taino society was basically a very gentle culture. It was characterized by happiness‚ friendliness and a highly organized hierarchical‚ paternal society‚ and a lack of guile. Each society was a small kingdom and the leader was called a cacique. The cacique’s function was to keep the welfare of the village by assigning daily work and making sure everyone got an equal
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