If you want to learn more about the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, pick up this book. Although it covers history, there are still intact Indigenous (& Afro-Indigenous) communities on some islands like the Carib of Dominica, and the Santa Rosa community in Trinidad & Tobago. 
I had the pleasure of seeing the Carib Queen from Trinidad & Tobago at a Rastafari event in Miami Gardens, FL. She blessed the land before the event started! At the time, I didn't even know Trinidad & Tobago still had Native ppl.
When I talk to Trinis, I tend to bring it up to see if they even know. And a lot of Trinis, whether usually Afro or Indian, don't know about the Indigenous ppl that remain nor about the Santa Rosa Carib community of Arima, Trinidad.
Most of the Carib Trinis tend to have Spanish surnames, because they dealt with the Spanish colonialism when the Spaniards had Trinidad & Tobago.
The video shows some of the Catholic/Spanish colonialism the Carib dealt with and still deal with. Unfortunately a story that affects many Native communities.
This is the Carib Queen I saw at the Rastafari event in Miami Gardens, FL, which actually took place at the HBCU, Florida Memorial University back in the early 2000s. RIP Valentina Medina caribbean-sun.com/reviews/59/+Qu…
One of my favorite Reggae singers is an Afro-Carib man from Dominica, Nasio Fontaine.
Him and I show you that as Afro-Native people we love Africa still
The book, the Indigenous People of the Caribbean, speaks of the Ciboney of Cuba, who are no longer with us.
The region, the Caribbean, is named after the Caribs, which were the last group of Indigenous people to move into the region and dominate it. They had come from South America.
Carib men killed Arawak men and took their women. Carib men loved Arawak aka Taino women.
There was a split among the Caribs in St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Those who united and merged with Africans became known as the Black Caribs, and those who stay separated were called the Red Caribs.
The Black Caribs were then removed from St. Vincent & the Grenadines by the British and sent to Roatan, Honduras. They spread over many Central American countries and today are known as the Garinagu/Garifuna.
@threadreaderapp unroll
