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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their reproduction. Although she refuses to have children‚ even after pregnancy-- she permeates self-love for her own body and sexuality. Her sexuality serves as a form of autonomy and power over her identity as a woman and over her ethnic identity as Carib. The communities around her treat her as a signifier and range from her childhood classroom to the couple she lives with. Xuela’s community around her represents the colonizer of her identity and objectifies her‚ giving her an identity based on their
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Explain three difficulties faced by the Europeans during the early stages of the new world settlement Three difficulties faced by the Europeans during the early stages of the new world settlement were resistance from the Amerindians‚ lack of supplies and food and natural disasters. The Europeans could not understand the resistance of the Amerindians. They felt that their culture and weapons were superior to that of the Amerindians and so they felt justified in their use of force against them
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sugar cultivation‚ the plantation needed more lands and more labour. The labour present came from the Tainos‚ whose population decreased from abuse‚ and could not meet the labour demands. The Europeans brought free labourers from Europe‚ but they could not be forced to work under the conditions demanded by the encomenderos. The church suggested the use of enslaving Africans to replace the fast dying Taino population. The Africans faced tremendous abuse. They were captured in tribal wars or raids on villages
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate CSEC CARIBBEAN HISTORY SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May/June 2011 Published by the Caribbean Examinations Council © 2010‚ Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ or transmitted in any form‚ or by any means electronic‚ photocopying‚ recording or otherwise without prior permission of the author or publisher.
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Zemis prevented the Tainos‚ a group of Amerindians inhabiting the Caribbean at the time of the Spanish conquest‚ from converting to Catholicism. Converting all natives to Catholicism was the goal of the reconquest. The Spanish tried their hardest to discontinue the practice of every religion except for Catholicism‚ and the zemi was seen as a barrier keeping them
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the Americas. He discovered the “Indian” tribe‚ the Tainos‚ they were barely dressed but had gold earrings and jewelry. He brought them back to Spain to show his people what he had found. He went back to the Americas with seventeen other ships and when he got there the Tainos had killed the Spaniards left behind. This made Columbus angry so he enslaved them. Columbus died in 1506 still thinking he discovered a route to India and by 1520 the Tainos were gone. After The Treaty of Tordesillas‚ the Spanish
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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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and founded the United States. In Christopher Columbus’s case‚ he did neither‚ and therefore‚ should no longer be commemorated. The third reason Columbus should not be acknowledged to this day is because he destroyed an innocent people group. Taino Indians were the unfortunate people group suffered from Columbus’s brutal actions. Besides killing Indians at disobeyed orders‚ he and his men raped the women. Columbus even began slavery in the parts he landed. He loaded the “best men and women
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Introduction Jamaican Maroons date back to the English conquest of Jamaica in 1655. At that time‚ the retreating Spanish freed their African slaves. They armed them and encouraged them to fight a guerrilla war against the new British Colonies. The released and runaway slaves‚ aided by Jamaica’s mountainous terrain; evaded capture‚ formed fighting bands and eventually split into two powerful communities. It is from these remote communities that the Jamaican Maroons raided British settlements and
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