Regarding the #Caribbean: "the Spanish were so thorough in the horrors they visited upon the Indigenous population that there aren’t really survivors around to speak for a separate identity" is a myth. The best-known indigenous community of the islands, the #Taíno, were devastated but not eliminated by spanish colonialism. The #Kalinago, who were mainly genocided by the british, are also still around, with a government-sanctioned reservation on Waitu'kubuli (dominica) & an active diaspora. Some survivors of these genocides assimilated, but there are revival movements among descendants. Other survivors created new indigenous communities like the #Garifuna. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean weren't "completely" eliminated any more than those of the amerikan mainlands were—& there's always been much movement of peoples between mainland & islands.

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https://archive.org/details/thedominicastory

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island by Lennox Honychurch

Topics
#Dominica, #Caribbean, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #history, #frenchcolonialism, #britishcolonialism, #Kalinago, #geography, #ecology, #folklore, #Waitukubuli, #maroons, #maroonwars, #marronage

The Dominica Story was first presented by Lennox Honychurch as a dramatised radio series tracing the origin and development of this often mysterious island from its volcanic formation up until its present. History has been interwoven with geography, ecology, folklore and social custom to produce a concise and colourful work which is not only vital to our knowledge of Dominica but to Caribbean history as a whole.