Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

The tribe became allies of the Spanish because they traditionally were enemies of the Carib groups with whom the Spanish were at war.

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

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.

By the end of the 15th century, the Carib had displaced the Arawak throughout the islands of the Lesser Antilles.

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

Carib (), Island Carib, or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean was named, are a group of people who live in the Lesser Antilles islands.

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.

The Carib people ( after whom the Caribbean was named ) formerly lived throughout the Lesser Antilles.

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.

This " Island Carib " went extinct in the Lesser Antilles in the 1920s, but survives in the form of Garífuna, or " Black Carib ", in Central America.

The Carib Grackle, Quiscalus lugubris, is a New World tropical blackbird, a resident breeder in the Lesser Antilles and northern South America east of the Andes, from Colombia east to Venezuela and northeastern Brazil.

Miner presents the Nacirema as a group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles.

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

* The expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique is carried out by French occupying forces.

The word “ peccary ” is derived from the Carib word pakira or paquira.

The tranquility of Arawak society was disrupted by the arrival of the bellicose Carib from the South American interior.

The papaya ( from Carib via Spanish ), papaw, or pawpaw is the fruit of the plant Carica papaya, the sole species in the genus Carica of the plant family Caricaceae.

Garifuna music from the Garifuna people, the descendants of Carib, Arawak and West African people and is quite different from the music created rest of Central America.

Consequently, Linnaeus mistakenly derived the generic name from the Carib word for the latter, yuca ( spelt with a single " c ").

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

The world canoe comes from the Carib kenu ( dugout ), via the Spanish canoa.

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.

The industry arose from humble beginnings as the food and medicine of the Carib and Garifuna peoples to the status of a major export of St. Vincent during the period 1900 to 1965.

Local natives, the Carib people, knew it as " fire mountain " from previous eruptions in ancient times.

Early post-invasion influences include Arawak and Carib refugees from the islands, shipwrecked Spaniards and escaped African slaves.

The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib and Garifuna to distinguish them from Yellow and Red Carib, the Amerindian population that did not intermarry with Africans.

Their language is primarily derived from Arawak and Carib, with English, French and Spanish to a lesser degree.

This does not however affect the entire vocabulary but when it does, the terms used by men generally come from Carib and those used by women come from Arawak.

The name of Cúa, according to some historians, has it origin from the Cumanagotos natives, from the Carib language that means Crab, meaning that Cúa is the place where the crab abounds.

* Ka ' lina ( Carib ) Vocabulary List ( from the World Loanword Database )

He used the word " Caymanas ", taken from the Carib name for crocodiles after seeing many of the large crocodilians.

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.

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.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

The Carib word karibna meant " person ".

The name is an anagram of the Spanish word canibal ( Carib people ), the source of cannibal in English.

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.

Tomalley ( from the Carib word, meaning a sauce of lobster liver ) or lobster paste is the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, that fulfills the functions of both the liver and the pancreas.

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

The word " tonka " is taken from the Galibi ( Carib ) tongue spoken by natives of French Guiana ; it also appears in Tupi, another language of the same region, as the name of the tree.