Indigenous populations of the Caribbean Definition of the Caribbean The Caribbean area comprises the islands extending from Trinidad in the south to Jamaica Cuba Hispaniola the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic ID: 776825
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Slide1
What is the Caribbean?
How is the Caribbean geographically defined?
Indigenous populations of the Caribbean
Slide2Definition
of the
Caribbean
The Caribbean area comprises the islands extending from
Trinidad
in the south, to Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola (the Republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
) in the north.
The main groupings are the four Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles (composed of the island arc (about forty inhabited islands) that extends from the Virgin Islands in the northeast to
Grenada
and Trinidad and Tobago
in the
south.
Slide3Major strength of these definitions
We are able to locate (on a map) the general area known as the Caribbean
Slide4Weaknesses of
the
definition
It
is
very
general
.
It includes
territories
like the Bahamas which
are not considered Caribbean
Slide5Linguistic Definition of the Caribbean
Any effective definition of the Caribbean will consider the following
Indigenous
peoples (the
Caribs
and the
Arawaks
)
Contact with Europeans and Colonization
Slavery
Immigrant
peoples from India, China etc…
Slide6Pre-
Columbian
Peoples
What were the groups which were present in the
Caribbean before Christopher Columbus?
When
C.Columbus
first arrived in 1492, he found:
The
Caribs
who lived in the Greater Antilles
and the
Arawaks
who settled in the Lesser Antilles.
Slide7What happened with the coming of the Europeans?
The
indigenous
populations and
their
languages
disappeared
but
there
are
some
groups of
Caribs
in
Dominica
,
St.Vincent
and Trinidad.
The end