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Carib

American Indian people who inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest. The Island Carib (now extinct) were a warlike, individualistic people who reportedly practiced cannibalism (the term derives from their name). Carib groups on the mainland, some of whom still survive, lived in the Guianas and as far south as the Amazon River; they subsisted by hunting and growing crops and were less aggressive than their island relatives.

Carib
1. a member of a group of American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles
2. the family of languages spoken by these peoples


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7 million capacity building project, launched in the Carib Territory of Dominica is expected to provide several benefits for the Kalinago people, reports Caribbean Net News (Jan.
Project for indigenous people by Caribbean Update
But in Dominica the Kalinago people, (Caribs is what they were called, Kalinago is what they call themselves) were granted a reservation in 1903 by the British, and so managed to preserve something of their way of life.
Windward bound by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Americas salutes this initiative by dedicating its June issue to the people of the Caribbean, who the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and current president of CARICOM, Ralph Gonsalves, describes as "the rhythm of Africa, the melody of Europe, the chords of Asia, and the songs of the Kalinago and the Garifuna.
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