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The Official Site of the CHAGUARAMAS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies
The Chaguaramas Development Authority is currently engaged in detailed research of it's Amerindian Occupation period.
Amerindians have existed in Trinidad for as long as 6,000 years before the arrival of Columbus, and
numbered at least 40,000 at the time of the Spanish settlement in 1592
The earliest history of Chaguaramas, substantiated by names such as macqueripe and chacachacare
is of the saladoid Amerindians occupation between 100 400 a.d. Chaguaramas itself is an
Amerindian word describing the once palm- fringed shoreline.
Before European explorers landed on the Caribbean
islands, peaceful tribes of Amerindians called the Arawaks
inhabited the entire Caribbean archipelago. Generous and
open where these people that they embraced the
Spaniards and bestowed every comfort for the Spanish
explorers. Ironically since the arrival of the Spanish these
people were mistreated and many died from diseases,
within a few decades it was belief that there were no
Arawaks left.
The Amerindians developed the canoe, the bow and arrow, and the ajoupa.
Amerindian cuisine is enjoyed by many Trinidadians: Cassava bread and Farine; Warap; barbecued
wild game; corn pastelles; coffee; cocoa; chardon beni.
The Amerindians also gave Trinidad and Tobago its first major rebellion in the name of freedom: the
Arena uprising of 1699, led by Chief Hyarima.
In 1783 Trinidad's Amerindians were displaced from their lands to make way for the influx of French
planters and their African slaves.
In 1759 the Mission of Arima was formed, consolidated and enlarged in 1785, and the Amerindians
were to have had control of 2,000 acres of land.
A number of tribes were pressed into Arima, mostly Nepuyo, and generically referred to as either
"Caribe" or "Indio" -- Arima was the last Mission Town.
Parang, utilizing both Spanish and Amerindian musical instruments, emerged from the evangelization
of the Amerindians.
The histories of major towns such as Arima and Siparia, two large former Amerindian Mission Towns,
have given us Trinidad's two oldest festivals: The Santa Rosa Festival of Arima, and La Divina Pastora
in Siparia.
The Santa Rosa Carib Community is the last remaining organized group of people identifying with an
Amerindian identity and way of life.
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