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As of the 1991 government census, this had increased to 3.5%, with the population of the Kalinago Territory (including the nearby non-Kalinago village, Atkinson) counted at 2,518 people; this increase was reflected in a large proportion of young adults and children. [47] Residents of the Kalinago Territory are among the poorest in Dominica. [48]
English: Map of Kalinago Territory on the Island of Dominica Some 3,000 Kalinago live within Kalinago Territory, which stretches for almost 15 km along Dominica's northeastern coast. A paved coastal highway links the territory's eight hamlets: Bataka, Crayfish River, Salybia, St. Cyr, Gaulette River, Mahaut River, Sinecou and Concord.
Irvince Auguiste – Former Chief of the Kalinago Territory in Dominica, and founder of Touna Auté living village. [60] [61] Sylvanie Burton — The first woman and first Kalinago president of Dominica, inaugurated in 2023. [62] Nona Aquan [63] – Artist and Carib Queen of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago ...
Its largest settlement is Castle Bruce, with a population of 1,653. [3] It includes the Indigenous community of the Kalinago Territory (formerly the Carib Territory) which has a population of about 3000 spread across 7 hamlets.
City: Any settlement listed at [1] that had a 2009 population estimate of 75,000 or more. Town: As given at [1] plus any other settlements with a 2009 population estimate of between 750 and 75,000. Village Any settlement not listed at [1] and/or with a 1991 census population of less than 750.
Martinique (/ ˌ m ɑːr t ɪ ˈ n iː k / MAR-tin-EEK, French: ⓘ; Martinican Creole: Matinik or Matnik; [6] Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Salybia or Salibia is a village on the east coast of Dominica in Saint David Parish.It is located to the south of Pagua Bay and north of the town of Castle Bruce.It is the main commercial and administrative centre for the Kalinago Territory, the only Indigenous people's reserve in the Caribbean.
The islands were dominantly Kalinago compared to the Greater Antilles which was settled by the Taíno, the boundary set between them is known as the "poison arrow curtain" for the Kalinago's favoured weapon for fending off Europeans that came to conquer the islands in the 16th century. [3] Map of the Lesser Antilles, 1780