The original Amerindians in the Caribbean consisted of three groups of people: the Ciboney‚ the Arawak‚ and the Caribs. These three groups are all linguistic‚ all speaking similar languages that are mutually comprehensible. Their cultures‚ however‚ are different. It is estimated that around 750‚000 to 10 million Amerindians occupied the Caribbean at the time of Columbus’ arrival. Today‚ there are probably no more than 3-4‚000 people of Amerindian descent living there. The Ciboney were the earliest
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ the name comes from an Amerindian word meaning "land of many waters". here are nine Native American tribes residing in Guyana: the Wai Wai‚ Machushi‚ Patamona‚ Arawak‚ Carib‚ Wapishana‚ Arecuna‚ Akawaio‚ and Warrau.[7] Historically the Arawak and Carib tribes dominated Guyana. Although Christopher Columbus sighted Guyana during his third voyage (in 1498)‚ the Dutch were the first to establish colonies: Essequibo (1616)‚ Berbice (1627)‚ and Demerara (1752)
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INCAS settled in Peru} South America -The ARAWAKS and CARIBS originally settled in South America (Bolivia & Brazil). They then migrated to the West Indies. At the time of the European arrival the Arawaks inhabited the Greater Antilles and half of Puerto Rico‚ While the Caribs controlled the Lesser Antilles. The word Arawak defines a Linguistic Group. There were many distinctive tribal groups‚ which settled in the Caribbean most of them were Arawak speaking people. The Lucayans were only found
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Hispaniola. There was a flourishing civilization of Native Americans living there. The primary group was the Arawak/Taino Indians. Arawak is the general group to which the Taino Indians belong‚ and describes the common language with this group of Native Americans shared. They ranged from Venezuela through the Caribbean and Central America all the way to Florida; however‚ the particular group of Arawak-speaking people who lived on the island of Hispaniola was the Taino Indians. For about a thousand years
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The Garifuna people are descendants of West Africans Slave who intermarried with native Carib and Arawak Indians‚ many people label them the “Black Carib because of that. In addition‚ the term “Garifuna” in English means “cassava eating people”. The West Africans Slaves were on their way to a Plantation or mines when their ship was ruined in a bad storm and they were able to escape and The Garifuna people also known as “Garinagu” in English literally means happened to get washed up on the shores
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Describe the major migrations into the Caribbean that greatly impacted society and culture. Migration is the movement of people from one place to another‚ but in this case‚ it is the movement of a group of people from another country coming into the Caribbean for better opportunities mainly‚ because of slavery. The major migrations into the Caribbean were mainly slavery‚ indentureship‚ encomienda and the plantation system. All these were the impacts of the historical processes. Influences of the
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The Amerindians were one of the first set of people to populate the Eastern Caribbean and they established many civilizations. The Amerindian people were made up of two unique and distinctive groups; the Arawaks‚ which were also known as Taino‚ who populated the Greater Antilles and the Caribs‚ which were also known as Kalinagos‚ who resided in the Lesser Antilles. In this day and age‚ there is no existence of the great civilizations that once were around but a few Amerindians have been confined
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which was to seize treasures from their lands. When Columbus’s fleet reached the island of Guadeloupe‚ they encountered the warlike Caribs and were attacked. The Spaniards finally defeated the Caribs and enslaved them. These slaves died out quickly because of the European diseases. Few months later‚ the tragic story of the Caribs had happened repeatedly on the Arawaks of Hispaniola (Konstam‚ “Across the Ocean.”) Originally‚ those lands were possessed by these indigenous people. If some intruders were
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When the White people‚ and then the Blacks‚ arrived on the Caribbean islands‚ they faced small groups‚ as the Carib and Arawak‚ speaking their own language and living their own cultures. Once the mentioned contact was made‚ the Caribbean creole was created. The original population of the islands had already influenced Spanish‚ lending them some words‚ and now was the time of participating in the English and African languages‚ as well as letting be influenced. The Caribbean creole is a Black English
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the Kalinagos and the Mayans. The Kalinagos and Tainos‚ also known as Caribs and Arawaks respectively‚ are called the Amerindians. Although they all lived in the Caribbean‚ they had different economic‚ social and religious practices. Their ways of living were different but there were some similarities‚ and they were also even more advanced than others with technology and architecture. The Tainos also known as the Arawaks were the largest of the three indigenous groups‚ however there settlements
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