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Editor’s note<\/strong>: This article was originally published in the Rich\u00e8s Karayib newsletter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Kalinagos<\/a>, also called Caribs by Europeans, are one of the last indigenous peoples of the West Indies to have preserved their cultural identity. Direct descendants of the first inhabitants of the Caribbean islands, they carry a thousand-year-old heritage that profoundly marked the history of the region before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1493.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, they live mainly on the island of Dominica, where they represent the living memory of pre-Columbian societies in the Lesser Antilles. Their history, marked by fierce resistance to European colonization, sheds light on the profound transformations experienced by these tropical islands over the last five centuries.<\/p>\n

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