Sunday, April 20, 2014

World of the Kalinago people

Kalinago Carib people live in an island nation that is a borderless country in the Caribbean Sea. This island is called Dominica, "the northernmost of the Windward Islands (though it is sometimes considered the southernmost of the Leeward Islands) (http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QsSQKN4kBIC&oi=fnd&pg=PT35&dq=native+birds+to+the+Kalinago+Carib+people+of+the+Dominica&ots=k62BLGeUEV&sig=HZFSlNVBCTJIu-2NoSBfHlrxD-Q#v=onepage&q&f=false). The size of the Dominica is about 289.5 square miles (750 km2) and the Roseau is their capital. The Dominica is largely covered by rainforest and it is also home to Boiling Lake, the world's second largest hot spring. In the Calibishie area in the country's northeast has sandy beaches with some plants and animals that are thought to be extinct on surrounding islands can still found in the Carib's forest lands. Among this the volcanic nature of the island has attracted many tourists for scuba diving. Their land has several protected areas, including there two most popular areas the Cabrits National Park and the 365 rivers.

"Dominica possesses the most pristine wilderness in the Caribbean" ( http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QsSQKN4kBIC&oi=fnd&pg=PT35&dq=native+birds+to+the+Kalinago+Carib+people+of+the+Dominica&ots=k62BLGeUEV&sig=HZFSlNVBCTJIu-2NoSBfHlrxD-Q#v=onepage&q&f=false). At first the wilderness was solely protected by the mountains, that being said it led European powers to sail there. Once the Europeans arrived on the Dominica they desired to set up ports and agricultural settlements upon the islands in order to make there travels more efficient.  The Caribs who inhabit the area now wanted to preserve the island alluring natural beauty; however, in order to do this they needed to discourage the type of high-impact tourism which long ago seemed to damage the nature is most of the Caribbean islands. Many think this is the reason the Kalinago Caribs of the Dominica are more commonly perceived to be cannibalistic human beings.

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