Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada, was inhabited by Carib Indians who had driven the more peaceful Arawaks from the island.

Though most of Grenada's population is of African descent, there is some trace of the early Arawak and Carib Indians.

blacks 82 % Mulatto 12 % Indians 3 % and whites 2. 9 %, trace Arawak / Carib Amerindian

There are also Europeans, Indians, Lebanese, Syrians, Chinese, and Carib Amerindians ( remnants of the original pre-European population ).

In 1636, the indigenous Carib Indians rose against the settlers to drive them off the island in the first of many skirmishes.

Black 66 %, East Indians 6 %, Carib Amerindian 2 %*, Mixed Race 19 %, White ( including Portuguese ) 4 %, Other 3 %.

The early colonisation was precarious: in 1656 Carib Indians invaded and destroyed the settlements, and in 1666 the island was captured by French forces.

The Ciboney were the first to inhabit the island of Barbuda in 2400 BC, but Arawak and Carib Indians populated the island when Christopher Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493.

* Mainland Carib artwork, National Museum of the American Indians

It is believed that the island was populated by Carib Indians during the colonization, After Agüeybaná and Agüeybaná II led the Taíno rebellion of 1511, Taíno Indians from the main island sought refuge on Culebra and allied with Caribs to launch random attacks at the island estates.

At this time, Martinique's population numbered some 5, 000 settlers and a few surviving Carib Indians.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Attacks by Carib Indians forced the population to move south inland to the present site of the present town of San German.

Scholars have speculated that the Karankawas were descended from a group of Carib Indians who arrived by sea from the Caribbean basin in the seventeenth century.

This is based on the appearance of the Karankawa, who were reported to be taller than other Indians in the region and similar in appearance to the Carib, as well as sharing certain cultural practices such as cannibalism.

The Arawaks inhabited the island until around the year AD 1300, when they were driven off by the more aggressive and warlike Carib Indians.

The Spaniards explaining that their bread was made of " yuca " ( cassava ), the Maya Indians explaining that theirs was called " tlati ", and from the repetition of " yuca " ( a Carib word, not a Mayan word ) and " tlati " during this conversation the Spaniards falsely deduced that they had intended to teach the name of their land: Yuca-tán.

The native tribes of the Northern Amazon are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean ; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basin in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted ( and, occasionally, eaten ) by more warlike tribes of Carib Indians, who departed from these same river valleys a few centuries later.

The more aggressive hunter-gatherers, the Carib Indians ( both descendants of the Ciboney tribe ), annihilated the Arawaks and took hold of the island.

On the east side of the island, the descendants of the Carib Indians continued to practise their time-honoured culture and crafts of canoe building and basket weaving.

The word curare is derived from wurari, from the Carib language of the Macusi Indians of Guyana.

Local attractions include trinity falls, darkview falls, and rock carvings which are an archaeological find and are believed to have been left by Carib Indians.

In this part of his career Abercromby was involved in crushing the revolt of the Garifuna ( Carib ) people on Saint Vincent, bringing to an end their centuries-long resistance to European colonization.

None of the later European visitors to the Virgin Islands ever reported encountering Amerindians in what would later be the British Virgin Islands, although Columbus would have a hostile encounter with the Carib natives of St. Croix.

The name may ultimately derive from huracan, a Carib word, and the source of the words hurricane and orcan ( European windstorm ).

In the seventeenth century, the language of the Island Carib was described by European missionaries as two separate unrelated languages — one spoken by the men of the society and the other by the women.

Also, because this peculiar dual gender-specific language arrangement was unstable and dynamic and cannot have been very old, the Carib speakers had only recently migrated north into the Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact, displacing or assimilating the Arawaks in the process.

lthough it was historically occupied by several native tribes, the Arawaks and Kalinago Carib tribes remained by the time European settlers reached the island.

For two centuries, the indigenous Carib population of the island succeeded in resisting European attempts at colonization by retreating to the mountainous, densely forested interior of the island.

Leidesdorff, Jr .' s mother Anna Marie Sparks, was described in one account as a Carib Indian woman ; she was believed also to have had African and European ancestry.

The Carib settlement of the Lesser Antilles also affected Guyana's future development.

Carib resistance delayed the settlement of Dominica by Europeans, and the Carib communities that remained in St. Vincent and Dominica retained a degree of autonomy well into the 19th century.

Jesuit missionaries among the Carib quickly agitated and armed the tribes into attacking the settlement, which was subsequently evacuated to Tortuga and later Jamaica.

Many of the remaining Carib people live in Dominica's Carib Territory, a district on Dominica's east coast.

Around 1300 A. D., the Kalinago, or Carib people arrived on the islands.

Before the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the 16th century, various Amerindian groups passed through or settled on St. Vincent and the Grenadines, including the Ciboney, Arawak, and Carib peoples.

They did embark on slaving expeditions in and around St. Vincent following royal sanction in 1511, driving the Carib inhabitants to the rugged interior, but the Spanish made no attempt to settle the island.

Around 1300, the Kalinago, or Carib people arrived on the islands.

Groups such as the Kulinago of the Lesser Antilles and the Carib and Arawak people of ( what is now ) Venezuela launched effective counter attacks against Spanish bases in the Caribbean, with native-built boats, which were smaller and better suited to the seas around the islands, achieving success on a number of cases at defeating the Spanish ships.

While only the Carib remain among the original Antillean populations of Ciboney, Taino, and Carib, the Orinoco Arawak tribes, who served as the root of all the before-mentioned groups of island people, have also survived on mainland South America.

The people 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 ( Arawakan ).

Some ethnic Carib communities remain on the South American mainland, in countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and in the country of Belize.

Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was killed and said to have been eaten by Carib natives on what is now Guadeloupe ( French West Indies ) in 1528 ( before called " Karukera " by the Amerindian people which means: the island of beautiful waters ), during his third voyage to North America, after exploring Florida, the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles.

In the Caribbean twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago, the Santa Rosa Carib Community, located in Arima, is the largest organization of indigenous peoples on the island.

The Island Carib language is now extinct, although Caribs still live on Dominica, Trinidad, St. Lucia and St. Vincent.

This was due to invading Carib men killing Arawak men and taking Arawak wives, who then passed their language on to the children.

Hixkaryana is one of the Carib languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil.

In his twenty-fourth year, he discovers that Carib cannibals occasionally use a desolate beach on the island to kill and eat their captives.

The majority of Black Carib migrated to Trujillo on mainland Honduras, but a portion remained to found the community of Punta Gorda on the northern coast of Roatán.