Caribbean Tribes Flashcards
What are the names of the tribes that can be grouped by their languages into 3 major groups
The ciboneys
The Tainos
The kalinagos
Where did ciboneys lived and in what year
A few of them lived in parts of the Bahamas and Jamaica in 1492
Everywhere else in the western Caribbean were occupied by____________________
The Tainos
The kalinagoes shared the eastern Caribbean Islands with__________
The tainos
What was the first home of the taino group
The orinoco basin in South America and Amazon rivers
What language did the tainos spoke
They spoke the arawakan language
What were the islands the tainos settled in
They settled in islands of the lesser Antilles ( trinidad, Grenada, and st vincent) and greater Antilles (puerto rico, Jamaica, Grenada, dominica, Martinique, monsterrat, Guadeloupe and st Vincent and the Grenadines)
