Full-blooded Carib
Dominica is the nature island of the Caribbean, and has acquired quite a reputation among nature lovers and those interested in mountain and forest vacations rather than the beach vacation marketed by most Islands.
The the north-east, the descendants of the Carib Indians, the regions first settlers, continue to live in the traditional way, practising their time-honored crafts of canoe building and basket weaving.
The last of the indigenous Caribbean people live in a 3,500 acre, semi- autonomous area of Dominica called Carib Territory. They maintain a strong bond to their Pre-Columbian past, which is evident in the baskets they weave from the l'arouma reed and is as strong as their wooden canoes carved from the trunks of Gommier trees.
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