(john gabriel stedman)
(dutch colonial soldier)
(1744 -1797)
(died @ ‘age 53’)
(cause of death unknown)
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*aka ‘kalinago peoples’*
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-‘the caribs’ – after whom the ‘caribbean sea’ was named – live in the “lesser antilles” islands-
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They are an Amerindian people whose origins lie in the southern West Indies and the northern coast of South America.
The people traditionally spoke either a Carib language or a pidgin, but the Caribs’ regular raids on other groups resulted in so many female Arawak captives that it was not uncommon for the women to speak Kalhíphona, a Maipurean language.
In the southern Caribbean, they co-existed with a related Cariban-speaking group, the Galibi.
(they lived in separate villages in Grenada and Tobago and are believed to have been mainland Caribs)
(the Island Caribs, also known as the Kalinago or simply Caribs, are an indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean)
They may have descended from the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language known as Island Carib.
At the time of Spanish contact, the Caribs were one of the dominant groups in the Caribbean, which owes its name to them.
They lived throughout the Windward Islands, Dominica, and possibly the southern Leeward Islands.
Historically it was thought their ancestors were mainland Caribs who conquered the islands from their previous inhabitants, known as the Igneri.
(however, linguistic and archaeological evidence disputes the notion of a mass emigration and conquest;
the Island Carib language appears not to have been Cariban,
but Arawakan
like that of their neighbors, the Taíno.
Irving Rouse and others suggest that a smaller group of mainland Caribs conquered the islands without displacing their inhabitants, eventually adopting the local language but retaining their traditions of a South American origin)
In the early colonial period, the Caribs had a reputation as warriors who raided neighboring islands.
Early Europeans claimed that they practiced cannibalism – the word “cannibal” derives from a corruption of their name.
Today, the Caribs and their descendants continue to live in the Antilles
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(the ‘garifuna’ (or “Black Caribs”) – a group of mixed ‘carib/african ancestry’ – also live principally in ‘central america’)
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