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Carib Indian

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Noun1.Carib IndianCarib Indian - a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
Amerindian, Native American - any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived


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By contrast, the Carib Indians constituted a more familiar missionary problematic: a "heathen" people, with a shared language and relatively intact social structure.
Native Carib Indians believed that certain trees and tree species were the homes of spirits.
As described in the afterword, much research was devoted to the sources of the tale and to the history, customs, and lifestyle of the Karina, called Carib Indians by Columbus; the illustrations, which depict the physical world of the Karina, reflect careful research as well.
 
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