Announcing The Journal of Caribbean Archaeology Devoted to archaeological research in the Caribbean and surrounding areas Editors Christopher Ohm Clement South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (803) 777-8044 clement@sc.edu William F. Keegan Florida Museum of Natural History (352) 392-6561 keegan@flmnh.ufl.edu Editorial Board Louis Allaire University of Manitoba Douglas V.

FEATURE ADDRESS SYMPOSIA IN CONNECTION WITH THE SECOND GATHERING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE CARIBBEAN AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 1993 JOSEPH PALACIO RESIDENT TUTOR, U.W.I., BELIZE HELD AT THE INVITATION OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO TO COMMEMORATE 1993 THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARED YEAR OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. INTRODUCTION First I express my own heartfelt ...

Suriname before Columbus A.H. Versteeg & F.C. Bubberman (This text is based on a published text of the authors mentioned above: that text has been summarized and updated. The Stichting Surinaams Museum and the authors have the copyright of this text. It is not allowed to cite this text unless properly referenced . The proper reference is: Versteeg, A.H. & F.C. Bubberman, 1992. Suriname before ...

Nbsp Ancient | Legacy | Contempornea | Publications &nbsp Tano: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean The Monacelli Press, co-published with El Museo del Barrio 192 pages, 9 x 11 inches 140 illustrations, 120 color ISBN 1-88525482-2 In association with Amazon.com Books Available December 10 through Amazon.com. To order through Amazon, please follow this link to the Amazon web site.

Newsletter of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink: site news, updates, trends ...

Welcome to the Gari-Newsletter section of garinet.com. In this section you will find Garifuna newsletters created by various Garinagu individuals from around the globe. If your local town has Garifuna Newsletter and you would like to have it posted here, feel free to let us know via the Message Box or by email at: gk@garinet.com Release Date Newsletter Name July 2002 Lidani Garifuna Times ...

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Free trial issue subscribe back issues Athena Review, Vol. 1, No.3 PreColumbian Pottery in the Antilles The larger Caribbean islands, the Greater Antilles, were settled by Arawak-speaking tribes from South America from 100 BC onward. This era, the Neo-Indian period, is characterized by pottery and agriculture brought from the Orinoco region to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola (today's ...

Personal testimonies of contemporary Caribbean Amerindian descendants.

Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrated Garifuna drummers on Settlement Day November 19th, 1998 marked the 57th anniversary of Garifuna Settlement Day. Founded by Thomas Vincent Ramos in 1941, it was established a Public and Bank Holiday in 1943. San Pedro was no exception to the country's festivities and started their celebration the night before with a dance to bring in the 19th. Music was provided ...

Cultural Pluralism and the Emergence of Complex Society in the Greater Antilles Samuel M. Wilson Department of Anthropology University of Texas Austin TX 78712 s.wilson@mail.utexas.edu Presented at the XVIII International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology St. George's, Grenada, July 1999 It has been recognized since the 16th Century that the indigenous people of the Caribbean had cultural ties ...

HOW ABOUT AN AMERINDIAN HERITAGE DAY the indigenous Caribbean people gave us the sturdy pirogue Excerpts from a story by Al Akong Independent October 1, 1999 Page 23 Today we hear no cries, no entreaties for recognition, or against oppression, political or other wide, of the Amerindians, who were the original West Indians, Trinidadians too, and were all but wiped out from the Antilles when the ...

REVISING THE ARENA AFFAIR Trinidad Guardian November 30, 1999 Page 21 Tomorrow marks the 300th anniversary of an event in Trinidad's history about which little is recorded and few people know - a bloody uprising against colonialism by the country's original inhabitants and the cruel reprisal by the governing authorities. It has become known as the Arena Massacre but as Guardian Features Writer ...

WAY OF THE SHAMAN By Laura Ann Phillips Express October 11, 2000 Page 29 Ricardo Cruz is an Amerindian shaman: a healer and holy man - a role found in most first nation tribes. After our interview at the Forestry Division s Cleaver Woods Recreation Site in Arima, Cruz and I were walking past the ajoupa a replica of an Amerindian hut and one of the main sights there on our way out. A small ...

HYARIMA Trinidad Guardian November 30, 1999 Page 21 There is a statue in Arima commemorating Hyarima, an Amerindian cacique and the Amerindian people of Trinidad and Tobago. Below is an inscription about the Carib warrior leader. HYARIMA - Amerindian Cacique The last great leader of this nation's indigenous people was Hyarima. He was a Nepuypo - a sub-tribe of the Carinepogoto (Carib) whose ...

MEDINA IS NEW CARIB QUEEN By Marlise Andrews Trinidad Guardian March 28, 2000 Page 6 Valentina Medina, of Mausica Lands, Arima, has been named Carib Queen for life, at an election held on Sunday at the Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre. Medina, 66, was among three others who were nominated as successors after Justa Werges, queen for the past 11 years, passed away in January. She was named after ...

APA.. Expansion of Kaieteur National Park is a National Disgrace May 10, 1999 APA unhappy with the way government is going about Beal deal December 2, 1999 Government Gives Commitment on Amerindian Rights 7th February, 2000 National Protected Areas Project 10th February, 2000 The APA expresses serious concerns about the DFID funded project. February 17, 2000 Region 8 Amerindian captains call for ...

ETHNOGRAPHIC ORIGINS: ST VINCENT AND TASMANIA Paper presented at the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies conference, Canberra, February 2001 Peter Hulme Since I was an enthusiast for the idea that one strand of this conference should focus on Australian Caribbean connections, and since I m a beneficiary of the HRC, whose theme for this year is The Enlightenment, I decided that I ...

TRAVEL, ETHNOGRAPHY, TRANSCULTURATION: ST VINCENT IN THE 1790s Paper presented at the conference Contextualizing the Caribbean: New Approaches in an Era of Globalization at University of Miami Coral Gables 29-30 September 2000 Peter Hulme 2000 The title of this talk offers three terms of its own travel, ethnography, transculturation. Only travel actually featured on the conference call for ...

APA.. Newsletter # 1 About the APA National News Constitution Reform National Toushaos Conference Toushaos Statement Extension of Kaieteur National Park Local News Elections in Region 7 Radio Network Newsletter # 2 National News Constitution Reform South African Company Gets Reconnaissance Survey Permit in Regions 7, 8 and 9 Rocket Launch Site for Waini Local News Amerindian Heritage Month ...

Celebrating Garifuna Day Iunraha Wamei Irisini Higiru Wayunagu Waba is the theme that the National Garifuna Council (NGC) of Belize has selected for this year's Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrations. The theme means - Lets Uphold the Values left to us by our Ancestors. November 19th, 1998, Garifuna Settlement Day, will be observed as a public and bank holiday honoring the Garifuna culture ...

Guyana tries to save indigenous languages by bert wilkinson georgetown, oct 21 (ips) - university of guyana researcher desrey fox knows that with each passing day, the battle to save major amerindian languages is being lost, mainly through increased contact with english-speaking coastlanders, teachers and religous leaders. preliminary research has shown that only a few elderly amerindians from ...

FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME INFORMATION UPDATE 19 February 1997 Little progress in the recognition and demarcation of Indigenous lands in Guyana The Government of Guyana recently approved its budget for 1997. Included therein is 50 million Guyana Dollars (approximately 365, 000 US Dollars) for the demaraction of titled Indigenous territory. This amount may be sufficent to demarcate 2 or 3 titled ...

Nation to celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day The Island Newspaper, Ambergris Caye, Belize Vol. 10, No. 41 November 16, 2000 Features: Search Issues | Read Back Issues | Subscriptions | Merchandise Ordering Information Garifuna Settlement Day will be celebrated nationally this weekend. Garifuna people originally came about as a result of Caribs from southeastern South America settling on the ...

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An article by Maximilian Forte on the ways in which the Carib has achieved a canonical national status in modern Trinidad and Tobago ...

A conference paper hosted by the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink: From Smoke Ceremonies to Cyberspace: Globalized Indigeneity, Multi-Sited Research, and the Internet, by Maximilian C. Forte ...

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The well-preserved remains of a Taino house have been found at Los Buchillones in Cuba's Ciego de Avila Province.

CONGRATULATIONS, ARIMA! 112 YEARS AS A BOROUGH Sunday Guardian July 30, 2000 Pages 28, 29 To be a borough The year is 1887. Her Majesty Queen Victoria has celebrated the Golden Jubilee of her reign and mass euphoria has spread through England. In Trinidad, a similar frenzy is being experienced. Her Majesty's loyal subjects in Arima, having the highest regard for their Queen and in honour of her ...

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CELEBRATE OUR CARIB HERITAGE By Sandra Chouthi Features Desk Express Section 2 June 29, 1998 Page 1 The Carib people want to create their own heritage centre, but there is one minor obstacle: they have few artifacts to work with. The Santa Rosa Carib Community Centre at Paul Mitchell Street, Arima, has several items made out of coconut leaves - a shield, a hummingbird, and a catfish. There are ...