CARIB TRIBE IN BRAZIL

THE CARIB PEOPLE SPEAK CARIBAN AND ABOUT 10,000 FOLKS SPEAK THIS LANGUAGE . THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS ARE NAMED AFTER THEM. THEY ORIGINATED IN THE WEST INDIES AND THE NORTH COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA. THEY RAIDED OTHER GROUPS THAT RESULTED IN FEMALE ARAWAK CAPTIVES. THEY LIVED IN THREE SEPARATE VILLAGES.

THE CARIBS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE MIGRATED FROM THE SAME PLACE TO SETTLE IN THE CARRIBEAN ISLANDS ABOUT 1200 A.D. AFTER 1492 WHEN COLUMBUS DISPLACED THE MAIPUREAN FOLKS BY WARFARE. THE CARIB TRIBE TRADED WITH THE TAINO FROM THESE ISLANDS.NONE OF THEM MINED FOR GOLD FROM THE MAINLAND. THEY WERE GOOD AT BOAT BUILDING AND SAILING. THE CARIBS WERE DISPLAYED BY THE EUROPEANS WITH A GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. OTHERS WERE ASSIMILATED DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD. THEY CONTRACTED DISEASES ALSO. BLACK ENSLAVED AFRICANS INTERMARRIED WITH CRIB SURVIVORS. IN 1795 THE BRITISH TRANSPORTED THE BLACK CARIBS TO HONDURAS. THESE FOLKS REMAINED IN DOMINICAN IN A DEGREE OF AUTONOMY. THEY HAVE 300 CARIBS REMAINING AND IN 2003 THEY ELECTED THEIR OWN CHIEF AND CELEBRATED 100 YEARS OF TERRITORY.

THE DESCENDANTS FROM THE CARIBE AND WEST AFRICA IS DIFFERENT FROM THE MUSIC CREATED. THEY ALSO DANCE AND MAKE THEIR OWN INSTRUMENTS AND GUITARS. THEIR RELIGION OF THE CARIBES IS POLYTHEISTS. THEY PRACTICED KALINGO SIMILAR TO ANCESTOR WORSHIP. THEY BELIEVED IN AN EVIL SPIRIT. THE CHIEF FUNCTION OF THE SHAMANS WAS TO HEAL THE SICK WITH HERBS AND TO CAST SPELLS. THEIR CEREMONIES HAD SACRIFICES. THEY SMOKED TOBACCO. THEIR EARLY CULTURE WAS PATRIARCHCHAL. WOMEN REARED THE YOUNG CHILDREN, AND PRODUCEDFOOD AND CLOTHING AND CULTIVATED LAND FOR FARMING.

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