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This is the second and final of a two-part series article on the indigenous people of the Virgin Islands. At the end of the ...
Due to the warlike nature of the Carib Indians, the Arawak relocated for safety reasons to the Greater and Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean of the Caribbean islands. Before they were known as Araw ...
"Typically, they were divided up into 'peaceful' Arawaks and 'warlike' Caribs. The latter who supposedly ... of Antigua [or elsewhere] did so." Indian Creek was first excavated by Yale University ...
Christopher Columbus landed on Trinidad, which he named for the Holy Trinity, in 1498 and found a land quietly inhabited by the Arawak and Carib Indians. It was nearly a century later that ...
Saint Lucia, the largest of the English-speaking Windward Islands, has endured a colorful past, with conflicts (originally between the Arawak and Carib Indians and followed by Spanish, Dutch and ...
The Caribbean museum would include artifacts from the Taino, Arawak and Carib Indians, as well as from the Africans and east Indians who were brought to the islands, Cerat said. She envisions the ...
First inhabited by Arawak and later by Carib Indians, the Virgin Islands were settled by the Dutch in 1648 and then annexed by the English in 1672. The islands were part of the British colony of ...
Although Arawak and Carib Indians inhabited the islands as far back as 100 BC, none of the Europeans, who started arriving here in the 1500s, ever reported encountering indigenous peoples.
In 1635, two heavily laden Spanish slave traders sank off the coast of St. Vincent, the African slaves that survived taken ashore and granted refuge by the Arawak and Carib Indians inhabiting the ...