Posted on 04/03/2006 2:56:48 PM PDT by twippo
Arima · Seated at a table under a traditional Carib Indian thatch roof, cousins Jason Calderon and Rosa Bharath are busy hot-gluing sequins on decorations for Carnival, listening to pop music on the radio while clad in the latest teen fashions: hip T-shirts, knockoff adidas shoes and earrings that look like diamonds.
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I married a Carib, and have the scars to prove it!
Wasn't there a short-lived detective show called "Carib" or "Caribe," back in the early '70's?
What type of scars?
Emotional...MOSTLY!
Emotional...MOSTLY!
I thought there were some true Carib in Belize and a few other places around the Carib Sea?
Yes, including Honduras, Guatemala and British Dominica (not to be confused with the Dominican Republic). Puerto Ricans have a significant Taino Indian heritiage as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_%28Puerto_Rico%29#Demographics
Note: this topic is from . Thanks twippo.
Link not working for me.
Yes there was...
“I’ve spent years trying to prove Columbus wrong when he was right: There were Caribs in the northern Caribbean when he arrived,” said William Keegan, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of Caribbean archaeology. “We’re going to have to reinterpret everything we thought we knew.”
And these domestic terrorists are pulling down Columbus’s statue. Just sickens me.
Descendants of Taino Native Americans
...www.dailymail.co.uk news article-7575255 PICT...
Oct 15, 2019 -
The Taino people were declared extinct in 1565, but a DNA study last year found that 61% of all Puerto Ricans and roughly a third of Cubans ..
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