Caribs in a sentence

According to Vincent Hubbard, author of Swords, Ships & Sugar: History of Nevis, the Spanish ruling caused many of the Arawak groups who were not ethnically Caribs to "be redefined as Caribs overnight".

African slaves, whether shipwrecked or escaped from St. Lucia or Grenada and seeking refuge in St. Vincent, intermarried with the Caribs and became known as "black Caribs".

Indigenous (Caribs) Finally there are the mixed raced Caribs who are descended from the native, precolonial people of the islands.

Amerindians Dominica is the only Eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Caribs (also known as Kalinago ), who were exterminated or driven from neighbouring islands.

Apart from possibly displacing the Caribs, the Spanish and Portuguese made little impact and left the island uninhabited.

Around 1200 or 1300, a fourth group, the Mayoid (the later " Caribs "), entered Trinidad.

As a result, Caribs and Arawaks populated much of South American and the Caribbean Islands.

As a result, Caribs and Arawaks were able to colonise much of South America and the Caribbean Islands.

A second wave of settlers appeared around the year 800 (the Spanish referred to these as " Arawaks ") and a third in the mid-13th century (called " Caribs " by the Spanish).

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

Caribs possibly called it Wa'omoni.

French colonists drove most of the Caribs off the island and established plantations on the island, eventually importing African slaves to work on the sugar plantations.

Hubbard suggests that the reason the first European settlers found so few "Caribs" on Nevis is that they had already been rounded up by the Spanish and shipped off to be used as slaves.

In 1660 the French and English agreed that both Dominica and St. Vincent should not be settled, but instead left to the Caribs as neutral territory.

Instead, it was the English who attempted the next European settlement in 1639, but that too was wiped out by the Caribs.

It was not a name the Caribs called themselves.

Partly because of the Caribs, Grenada remained uncolonized for more than one hundred years after its discovery.

Relatives of the Antiguan Arawaks and Caribs still live in various countries in South America, notably Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia.

The bulk of the Arawaks left Antigua about 1100 A.D. Those who remained were subsequently raided by the Caribs.

The Caribs also settled in the area and conquered the Arawaks using their sailing ships.