This sea was named for a warlike tribe of Indians that inhabited the Lesser Antilles
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Carib | people | Britannica.com  American Indian people who inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighbouring ... The Island Carib, who were warlike (and allegedly cannibalistic), were ... Other Carib-speaking tribes, apparently much like the Guianan Carib, were ... on Hispaniola in 1492, the Carib people, for whom the Caribbean Sea is named,...
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Carib - New World Encyclopedia  Nov 13, 2014 ... Columbus named these natives Caniba, after the land other tribes referred to as ... culture has focused upon their aggressive and war-like characteristics. ... It is now extinct, but was spoken on the Lesser Antilles until the 1920s ... from the original Amerindian inhabitants of Trinidad; Amerindians from the...
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Tano - Wikipedia  The Tano people were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida. At the time of ... Tano groups were in conflict with the Caribs of the southern Lesser Antilles. ... For much of the 15th century, the Tano tribe was being driven to the ... 1,098 people in Puerto Rico identified themselves as "Puerto Rican Indian," 1,410...
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Native Peoplesthe "Indians" - Glencoe  The groups of native people incorrectly labeled Indians by Columbus were ... mix of different tribes which spanned the islands of the Greater and Lesser Antilles. ... of the cassava and the sea (where the Tainos found fish and other sources of food). ... The Classic Tainos were more warlike, but overall were not a very violent...
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Caribbean Heritage [Part 1 of 3] | Greater Caribbean American ...  Dec 27, 2013 ... It was named after the CARIB, a warlike tribe of cannibalistic Indians that inhabited some of the Lesser Antilles at the time of the European conquest. ... stretches from Florida to Venezuela and enclosing the Caribbean Sea.
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HOPI  The Navajo use the word Anasazi, which means ancient enemies. As Hopi they have lived in the Four Corners area for at least 1,000 years. ... The humblest leader picked the shortest ear of corn, and the name "Hopi" was given to those ... Though men are the religious leaders, the children inherit the clan of their mother.
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St. Kitts Culture and History | stkittstourism.kn  From a distance, Columbus thought the island resembled the shape of St. ... found the first non-Spanish European colony in the Caribbean, the island was known as St. Christopher's. ... An English gentleman by the name of Sir Thomas Warner brought his family, ... It was an out and out massacre at what is now Bloody Point.
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Cultural Info - World Explorer  It is believed that Papua New Guinea was originally inhabited by Asian settlers over ... who named the island Ilhas dos Papuas (Island of the Fuzzy Hairs). .... of unpredictable natural violence (in 1994, the once-beautiful New Britain town of...
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Five Civilized Tribes - Wikipedia  The term "Five Civilized Tribes" derives from the colonial and early federal period. It refers to five Native American nationsthe Cherokee, Chickasaw, ... The most infamous removal was the Cherokee Trail of Tears of 1838, when ... But it has been conceived to be impracticable to civilize the Indians of North America  This...
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Pre-Columbian Hispaniola - Arawak/Taino Indians  THE ARAWAK/TAINO INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA (HAITI) ... are aware that Christopher Columbus landed at San Salvador on October 12th, 1492, thus ... Each society was a small kingdom and the leader was called a cacique. ... When the Africans came beginning in 1507 they introduced mud and wattle as...
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Map of Reunion Island and Reunion Map and Information Page ...  Jul 13, 2016 ... This wildly beautiful and rugged volcanic island (with a very active volcano), was ... They named it Bourbon and established their first colony here in 1662. ... The island was renamed Reunion in 1793, and it remained a French colony, except ... (3,069 m); Lowest Point Indian Ocean, 0 ft. ... Did You Know?
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jeopardy/10 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  ... once called Ilhas Dos Papuas, or \"Island of the Fuzzy Hairs\"","category":"ISLANDS","value":"$200" ..... R. Murrow"},{"question":"Proust organized petitions for this French soldier, unjustly sentenced in 1894 to imprisonment on Devil's Island"...
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West Indies :: essays research papers - Free Essays  Category: essays research papers; Title: West Indies. ... The islands are divided into three major groups: the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. ... all the rest, except the Bahamas, are included in the group of Lesser Antilles, ... the Windward Islands includes Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and...
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Tano - Wikipedia  The Tano people were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida. At the time of ... Ayiti ("land of high mountains") was the indigenous Tano name for the island of ... The Spaniards who arrived in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola in 1492, ..... Columbus called the Tano "Indians", a reference that has grown to...
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Taino Indian Culture - Puerto Rico!  Another god, Jurakn, was perpetually angry and ruled the power of the hurricane. ... medicine men and the caciques or chiefs, each village or yucayeque had one. At the time Juan Ponce de Len took possession of the Island, there were about twenty villages or yucayeques, Cacique Ageybana, was chief of the Tanos.
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Seminole Indian History  A fierce, proud tribe of Florida, let neither three wars with the United States ... The original Seminoles were given this name because they were Indians who had .... in wait at Lake Okeechobee (a Seminole word which means "plenty big water")...
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The Last of the Mohicans - WW Norton & Company  The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his .... deep within the borders of the neighboring province of New York, forming a natural passage ...... formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had ...... more than a scattered hamlet; but the name is in general use.
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Lesser Antilles - Wikipedia  The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most form a long, partly .... Saint Kitts (St. Kitts and Nevis); Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis); Barbuda (Antigua and Barbuda); Antigua (Antigua and Barbuda); Redonda (Antigua and...
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Anguilla History | Anguilla Vacation & Travel Guide  Originally named Malliouhana, meaning arrow-shaped sea serpent, the island was ... It was then that Amerindian peoples first arrived from South America. ... thousand years, a succession of tribes and cultures called the island home. ... By the 1800s Anguilla was thriving as a plantation economy like most of the Caribbean.
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sailing - The Life Nomadik | Page 6  St Thomas fine natural harbor became a popular pit stop for sailors with its many ... in the U.S. Virgin Islands, named after the wife of Denmark's King Christian V. ... The history of this island, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, is marked by an ... We had the best time in Old San Juan visiting the two big defense forts built in...
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines Map / Geography of St. Vincent and ...  Jul 12, 2016 ... The large island now named Saint Vincent was originally called Hairouna ("The Land of the Blessed") by the native Caribs, and those Caribs...