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Caribs  

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  • The Caribs are a group of native peoples in the Lesser Antilles, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named. They are thought to have originated in the Orinoco River Basin of Venezuela and spread northward into the Antillean chain of islands. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Caribs]

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