(1/6) Happy National Hero's Day!
Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' sole national hero.
📷: Painting by Calvert Jones
(2/6)Chatoyer was a Garifuna (Black Carib) chief who led a resistance against the British Colonial Government. The first Carib War started in 1772 after tensions flared between the indigenous people and the British, who were trying at all cost to take control of Saint Vincent.