The Kalinago, also called Island Caribs<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-6">[6]</a> or simply Caribs, are an <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Caribbean">Indigenous people</a> of the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Antilles">Lesser Antilles</a> in the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean">Caribbean</a>. They may have been related to the Mainland Caribs (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalina_people">Kalina</a>) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language known as <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago_language">Kalinago</a> or Island Carib. They also spoke a <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin">pidgin</a> language associated with the Mainland Caribs.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a>At the time of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas">Spanish contact</a>, the Kalinago were one of the dominant groups in the Caribbean (the name of which is derived from "Carib", as the Kalinago were once called). They lived throughout north-eastern South America, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados">Barbados</a>, the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windward_Islands">Windward Islands</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica">Dominica</a>, and southern <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeward_Islands">Leeward Islands</a>, including <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe">Guadeloupe</a>. Historically, it was thought their ancestors were mainland peoples who had conquered the islands from their previous inhabitants, the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igneri">Igneri</a>. However, linguistic and archaeological evidence contradicts the notion of a mass emigration and conquest; the Kalinago language appears not to have been <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariban_languages">Cariban</a> but like that of their neighbours, the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno">Taíno</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Rouse">Irving Rouse</a> and others suggest that a smaller group of mainland peoples migrated to the islands without displacing their inhabitants, eventually adopting the local language but retaining their traditions of a South American origin.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-8">[8]</a>Recent archaeological research in <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada">Grenada</a> has further refined this understanding, suggesting that the "Island Caribs" of the historic period may have been composed of two distinct groups: the "Caraïbe" (likely the long-term Indigenous inhabitants who produced Suazan Troumassoid pottery) and the "Galibis" (newer arrivals from the mainland who produced Cayo pottery).<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-Hanna2019a-9">[9]</a>In the early colonial period, the Kalinago had a reputation as warriors who raided neighbouring islands. According to the tales of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador">Spanish conquistadors</a>, the Kalinago were <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cannibalism">cannibals</a> who regularly ate roasted human flesh.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-10">[10]</a> There is no hard evidence of Caribs eating human flesh, though one historian points out it might have been seldomly done as means of taunting or even frightening their <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawak">Arawak</a> enemies.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago#cite_note-:3-12">[12]</a> The Kalinago and their descendants continue to live in the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles">Antilles</a>, notably on <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominica">Dominica</a>. The <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna_people">Garifuna</a>, who share common ancestry with the Kalinago, also live principally in Central America.

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