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Ethnic groups in the Caribbean by country (14 C) Ethnic groups in the Caribbean by dependent territory (10 C) D. Diasporas in the Caribbean (4 C) F.
Category: Ethnic groups in the Caribbean by dependent territory. 1 language. ... Ethnic groups in the Cayman Islands (1 C, 2 P) Ethnic groups in Curaçao (3 C, 1 P) G.
[4] [5] Still these groups plus the high Taíno are considered Island Arawak, part of a widely diffused assimilating culture, a circumstance witnessed even today by names of places in the New World; for example localities or rivers called Guamá are found in Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil. Guamá was the name of famous Taíno who fought the Spanish ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Ethnic groups in North America by country. It includes ethnic groups that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago and Taino groups. These groups were decimated by a combination of enslavement and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Amerindian ...
The islands of the Caribbean were successively settled since at least around 5000 BC, long before European arrival in 1492. The Caribbean islands were dominated by two main cultural groups by the European contact period: the Taino and the Kalinago. Individual villages of other distinct cultural groups were also present on the larger islands.
Note that Bermuda is a member nation of the Caribbean Community, though the island nation lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, not in the Caribbean. Other than 13 Caribbean island countries, four continental mainland countries, namely Honduras, Belize, Guyana, and Suriname, have also been included in the following table (by United Nations geoscheme).
Map of Dominica. The culture of Dominica is formed by the inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Dominica.Dominica is home to a wide range of people. Although it was historically occupied by several native tribes, it was the Taíno and Island Caribs (Kalinago) tribes that remained by the time European settlers reached the island.