Garifuna
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The Garifuna people are an Afro-Indigenous people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and traditionally speak Garifuna, an Arawakan l
Garifuna family, 1773 painting
Depiction of the 1773 treaty negotiations between the British and the Black Caribs
Joseph Chatoyer, the chief of the Black Caribs in St. Vincent, in an 1801 engraving.
Kalinago
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The Kalinago, also historically known by the exonyms Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have been related to the Kalina of South
Garifuna
…the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and traditionally speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language. The Garifuna are the descendants of Indigenous Arawak and Kalinago (Island Carib) people, and Afro-Caribbean people. The founding population of the Central American diaspora, estimated at 2,500 to 5,000 persons, were…
Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman 1818)
Drawing of a Carib woman (1888)
Greenstone ceremonial axe. From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957.
A Family of Carib natives drawn from life, by Agostino Brunias, c. 1765 – 1770s