Carib people

Carib is the name for several indigenous peoples of South and Central America. Between the 8th and 15th century Caribs migrated into the areas, which were called by the Spaniards later Caribbean, and harried in the Antilles Islands, the earlier immigrant Taíno. Whether the Caribs were cannibals, is controversial.

Caribs

The name refers Caribs in the strict sense for a nation that still lives on the south coast of the Caribbean in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and northern Brazil today. The proper name is Kalihna or Galibi. Their language belongs to the named after them more widespread in northern South America Caribbean language family.

Kalinago

The term Caribbean is also used for the people who had encountered on the first expeditions to the Lesser Antilles, the Spaniards, the Island Caribs or Kalinago. This spoke an entirely different language, which, as part of the language of the Taíno to Arawak language family. They were the result of a mixing of Arawaks and Caribs of ( Kalihna / Galibi ), which had penetrated from the mainland to the islands. Of the Island Caribs now live about 3500 on the Caribbean island of Dominica, where it was established in 1903 by the British a reserve. Their language is disappeared about 1920.

Garifuna

From a mixture of island Caribs and Africans are the Garifuna, the Black Caribs, emerged who live on the basis of deportations in the 18th century on the mainland and speak the Arawak language Igneri today.

Past abuse and confusion

Humboldt describes that Columbus founded the fear of the Caribs with the widespread habit of cannibalism among the indigenous peoples of South America and the similarities used to discredit the Caribs to the Pope and to obtain a permit for their enslavement:

" Later, the Licentiate Rodrigo de Figueroa was instructed by the court (1520 ) to identify which nations in South America could apply to caraibischen or canibalischen tribe, and what would Guatiaos, that is peaceful, of a long time friend of the Castilians Indians. This called ethnographic Actenstück, " el auto de Figueroa ," is one of the most remarkable documents for the barbarism of the first conquistadors. Never addiction system had served so well to gloss over the passions. Our geographers are not arbitrary to work, if they differ in Central Asia Mongol and Tartar peoples, as Figueroa when he drew the line between Canibalen and Guatiaos. Without paying attention to the linguistic relationship, it was explained to all arbitrarily hordes, where one could give fault that they consumed a prisoner after the battles for caraibisch. The inhabitants of Uriapari ( the Paria peninsula ) were Caribs called the Urinacos ( the bank residents on untern Orinoco or Urinucu ) Guatiaos. All strains, designated Figueroa as Caribs were forfeited slavery; they could freely sell or massacre. In these bloody battles, the caraibischen women fought after the death of their husbands with such desperate courage, that they, as Anghiera says kept for Amazon peoples. "