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Kalina people, the Glossary

The Kalina, also known as the Caribs or mainland Caribs and by several other names, are an Indigenous people native to the northern coastal areas of South America.^[1]

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Adaheli

Adaheli was the personification of the sun in the Kalina mythology of the Orinoco region of South America. Kalina people and Adaheli are Kalina.

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The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Animism

Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

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Arawak

The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Kalina people and Arawak are indigenous peoples of the Guianas.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Awala-Yalimapo

Awala-Yalimapo is a commune on the north coast of French Guiana, close to the border with Suriname.

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Barama River

The Barama River is a tributary of the Waini River, both being in the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana.

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Bernharddorp

Bernharddorp is an indigenous village of Lokono and Kalina Amerindians in the resort of Noord in the Para District in Suriname.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

The ('National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as Richelieu and François-Mitterrand.

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Bigi Poika

Bigi Poika is a resort (ten Districts are divided into 62 resorts) located in the Para District.

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Bigiston

Bigiston, also Bigi Ston, is a group of settlements of Ndyuka Maroons and indigenous Kalina in the Albina resort of the Marowijne District of Suriname.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Carib language

Carib or Kari'nja is a Cariban language spoken by the Kalina people (Caribs) of South America. Kalina people and Carib language are Kalina.

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Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to north-eastern South America.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cayenne

Cayenne (Kayenn) is the prefecture of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.

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Chimire, Venezuela

Chimire, Venezuela, often referred to as the Chimire cliffs, (Spanish: Farallones de Chimire) is a semi-mountainous cliff landscape in Mesa de Guanipa, Anzoategui, Venezuela, located a few kilometres north of the city of El Tigre (The Tiger), in the municipality of Freites.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.

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Colonization

independence. Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.

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Columbian exchange

The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, in the late 15th and following centuries.

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Coppename River

The Coppename is a river in Suriname (South America) in the district of Sipaliwini, forming part of the boundary between the districts of Coronie and Saramacca.

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Créolité

Créolité is a literary movement first developed in the 1980s by the Martinican writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant.

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Cuyuní River

The Cuyuni River is a South American river and a tributary of the Essequibo River. It rises in the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, where it descends northward to El Dorado, and turns eastward to meander through the tropical rain forests of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region of Guyana. It finally turns southeastward, flowing to its confluence with the Mazaruni River.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

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Early American Studies

Early American Studies is a peer-reviewed history journal covering the study of the histories and cultures of North America prior to 1850.

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Endonym and exonym

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Ethnonym

An ethnonym is a name applied to a given ethnic group.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French National Centre for Scientific Research

The French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.

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Galibi, Suriname

Galibi is a resort in Suriname, located in the Marowijne District.

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Garifuna

The Garifuna people (or; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are a people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian Creole.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Hut

A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials.

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Immune system

The immune system is a network of biological systems that protects an organism from diseases.

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International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population.

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Iracoubo

Iracoubo (Yakoubo) is a commune on the coast of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France, located in South America.

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Jardin d'Acclimatation

The Jardin d'Acclimatation is a children's amusement park located in the northern part of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, alongside other attractions.

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Kalinago

The Kalinago, formerly known as Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Kalina people and Kalinago are indigenous peoples of the Guianas.

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Kasiri

Kasiri, also known as kaschiri and cassava beer, is an alcoholic drink made from cassava by Amerindians in Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana.

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Kourou

Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America.

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Kumarumã

Kumarumã is an Amerindian village of the Galibi Marwono people in the Brazilian municipality of Oiapoque, Amapá.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Llanos

The Llanos (Spanish Los Llanos, "The Plains") is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.

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Lokono

The Lokono or Arawak are an Arawak people native to northern coastal areas of South America. Kalina people and Lokono are indigenous peoples in French Guiana, indigenous peoples in Guyana, indigenous peoples in Suriname, indigenous peoples in Venezuela and indigenous peoples of the Guianas.

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Mana, French Guiana

Mana (Mannan) is a commune and town in French Guiana.

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Maraca

A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.

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Maroni (river)

The Maroni or Marowijne (Maroni; Marowijne; Sranan Tongo: Marwina-Liba) is a river in South America that forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname.

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Maroons

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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National Assembly (Suriname)

The National Assembly (commonly abbreviated "DNA") is the Parliament, representing the legislative branch of government in Suriname.

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Native American religions

Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the Native Americans in the United States.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Oyapock

The Oyapock or Oiapoque is a long river in South America that forms most of the border between the French overseas department of French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.

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Para District

Para is a district of northern Suriname.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.

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Percussion mallet

A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.

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Petit-Saut Dam

The Petit-Saut Dam is a gravity dam on the Sinnamary River about south of Sinnamary in French Guiana.

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Pierre Petit (photographer)

Pierre Lanith Petit (15 August 1832 – 16 February 1909) was a French photographer.

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Pomeroon River

The Pomeroon River (also Río Pomerón or Pomaron) is located in Guyana, South America, situated between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Powakka

Powakka is an indigenous village of Lokono Amerindians in the resort of Oost in the Para District in Suriname.

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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (Sen-Laurent-di-Maronni) is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America.

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Saramaka

The Saramaka, Saamaka or Saramacca are one of six Maroon peoples (formerly called "Bush Negroes") in the Republic of Suriname and one of the Maroon peoples in French Guiana.

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São José dos Galibi

São José dos Galibi is an Amerindian village of the Galibi do Oiapoque people in the Brazilian municipality of Oiapoque, Amapá.

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Sinnamary

Sinnamary (Sennmari) is a town and commune on the coast of French Guiana, between Kourou and Iracoubo.

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Sinnamary (river)

The Sinnamary is a river in French Guiana.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Suriname

Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.

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Sylvia Kajoeramari

Sylvia Kajoeramari is a Surinamese politician.

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The Guianas

The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a region in north-eastern South America.

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Uaçá River

Uaçá River is a river of Amapá state in Brazil.

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University Press of Mississippi

The University Press of Mississippi (UPM), founded in 1970, is a university press that is sponsored by the eight state universities in Mississippi (i.e., Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, Mississippi Valley State University, University of Mississippi, and the University of Southern Mississippi), making it one of the few university presses in the United States to have more than one affiliate university.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Witsanti

Witsanti (also Wit Santi) is an indigenous village of Lokono and Kalina Amerindians in the resort of Zuid in the Para District in Suriname.

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World's fair

A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.

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Writing

Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalina_people

Also known as Galibi, Galibi Marwono, Galibi do Oiapoque, Galibi people, Galibis, Kali'na, Kali'na people, Kali'na tilewuyu, Kalinagos, Kalinas, Kaliña, Karina people, Kariña, Mainland Carib, Mainland Caribs, Marworno, Uaçá Galibi.

, Llanos, Lokono, Mana, French Guiana, Maraca, Maroni (river), Maroons, Myth, National Assembly (Suriname), Native American religions, Orinoco, Oyapock, Para District, Percussion instrument, Percussion mallet, Petit-Saut Dam, Pierre Petit (photographer), Pomeroon River, Portuguese language, Powakka, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Saramaka, São José dos Galibi, Sinnamary, Sinnamary (river), South America, Spanish language, Sun, Suriname, Sylvia Kajoeramari, The Guianas, Uaçá River, University Press of Mississippi, Venezuela, Witsanti, World's fair, Writing.

Kalina people, the Glossary

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See also

Indigenous peoples in French Guiana

Indigenous peoples in Guyana

Indigenous peoples in Suriname

Indigenous peoples in Venezuela

Indigenous peoples of the Guianas

Kalina

References