Dominica’s Carib Indians and tourism

The Caribbean island of Dominica is often confused with the Dominican Republic or simply forgotten about altogether, but it is a place that has its own unique charm. Its known as the Nature Island because of its amazing environment, but its also home to one of the last groups of Carib Indians, the Caribbeans indigenous people. The Caribs lived here before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas. Since then, their numbers have dwindled to almost zero in much of the region because of years of brutal treatment from the Spanish, French and British – but in Dominica, hope remains. In the early 20th century, when only about 500 Caribs were left, a 3700 acre territory was established for them on the islands east coast. Now they number around 3000. This video looks at the effect tourism has on Carib culture.

19 Comments on "Dominica’s Carib Indians and tourism"

  1. good point

  2. Shaquille Albertus | April 14, 2013 at 2:25 pm | Reply

    Yeah but if the kaliango stil lmaking babies together, isn’t that sort of
    incest? I mean, there are like 3000 kalinago’s in the carib territory in
    Dominica, they are all related in some sort of way, because they can’t
    marry non-kalinagos? Their ‘blood’ is already ‘destroyed’ because alot of
    them are mixed with black.

  3. CURSED?? NO, NIGGERS ARE. WHITE AMERICANS HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE. THE
    WORLD HATES YOU, THAT´S WHY YOU WERE SLAVES. HEY, MEXICANS HAD SLAVES BE
    THANKFUL THAT WE FREED YOUR BLACK ASSES. I AM HERE BECAUSE I AM SAYING THE
    TRUTH ABOUT NIGGERS. RETURN TO AFRICA, CHIMPANZEE.

  4. Shaquille Albertus | April 29, 2013 at 8:54 am | Reply

    Oh yeah, and btw the natives didnt hate the africans when they were shipped
    to the caribbean, the Kalinagos and Arawaks did intermixed with the
    africans, they saw each other as ‘brothers’ and they had something in
    common, they both hated white devils.

  5. ThaCerealKilla | June 13, 2013 at 10:08 am | Reply

    Bwahaha stfu you are proud of the heritage of the men who raped your great
    grandmother pathetic little spic.

  6. Man…i wish there was something like that in my island Martinique
    eventhough i’m not dominican i feel like there’s a connection because i’m
    also carib mixed with african, european and chinese roots. So im proud with
    what they’re doing because they are honoring our ancestors.

  7. Proudly West-Indian | July 13, 2014 at 1:33 am | Reply

    Nice I am from the sister island of dominica which is St.lucia ! im of
    Amerindian descent also black european and east indian !! thats really nice
    keeping the culture alive i wish they could do that in all the islands !!
    but e still have some of their culutre within ours so Vive amerindians !!

  8. Proudly West-Indian | July 13, 2014 at 1:35 am | Reply

    And also in the caribbean people tend to mix Amerindians people with East
    indians :/ so again

  9. Jennifer McGregg (JMac) | July 25, 2014 at 9:48 pm | Reply

    My grandmother is St Lucian and told me her father’s family were st Lucian
    Caribs . Whereas, her grandmother was from India and mother was half Indian
    and Carib.
    Black historians like to say the native Caribbeans were wipe out during
    ‘slavery’ in the ‘west indies’ but that’s not true. 

    • Ava Lawrence | May 29, 2015 at 3:48 pm | Reply

      Why did u put slavery in quotations?

    • Jennifer McGregg (JMac) | May 29, 2015 at 5:18 pm | Reply

      +Ava Lawrence​ I don’t like using the words slaves and slavery to describe
      what happened to my ancestors. I don’t think the word slavery fully
      describes what happened to our ancestors. Black people were never slaves.

  10. kenya lawrence | August 8, 2014 at 11:07 pm | Reply

    Having a Dominican father of Carib descent and living in the UK, I’m glad
    to hear that people are becoming more interested in the Caribbean, when I’m
    at school and I say I’m from Dominica people go “Where’s that?”. It’s nice
    to know people are learning and experiencing 

    • “wheres that”? Are you joking me? Dominica is a popular Island to visit. I
      am sure the crime rate is low so that will attract more tourism.

  11. Franklyn Bell | June 15, 2015 at 3:02 am | Reply

    my family tree is from there

  12. I heard these ppl ate other humans, they were savages.

    • +Troy M Kick rocks, go look up their history on Google.

    • +C.J. Love It’s a classic case of white people jumping to conclusions when
      they don’t understand the culture of others. Caribs didn’t eat other people
      they had rituals related to the eating of their enemies but it was purely
      symbolic. Christopher Coloumbus and other historian didn’t understand what
      they we’re seeing and casted it off as cannibalism. Typical white people
      quick to judge without finding out the facts.

      Claims of the practice were based on European misconceptions. Historical
      Anthropologist, Nicola Foote, asserts that there is ‘no firm evidence that
      cannibalism ever existed.’

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