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==Name== {{See also|Kalina people#Name|Garifuna#Name}} The [[exonym]] ''Caribe'' was first recorded by [[Christopher Columbus]].<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book |title=The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival and the Making of the Garifuna |first=Christopher |last=Taylor |series=Caribbean Studies Series |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2012 |jstor=j.ctt24hxr2|isbn=9781617033100 }}</ref>{{rp|vi}} One hypothesis for the origin of ''Carib'' is that it means "brave warrior".<ref name="Taylor"/>{{rp|vi}} Its variants, including the English word ''Carib'', were then adopted by other European languages.<ref name="Taylor"/>{{rp|vi}} Early Spanish explorers and administrators used the terms ''[[Arawak]]'' and ''Caribs'' to distinguish the peoples of the Caribbean, with ''Carib'' reserved for Indigenous groups that they considered hostile and ''Arawak'' for groups that they considered friendly.<ref name="Kim">{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=Julie Chun |year=2013 |title=The Caribs of St. Vincent and Indigenous Resistance during the Age of Revolutions |journal=[[Early American Studies]] |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=117β132 |doi=10.1353/eam.2013.0007 |jstor=23546705 |s2cid=144195511}}</ref>{{rp|121}} The [[Kalinago language]] endonyms are ''Karifuna'' (singular) and ''Kalinago'' (plural).<ref name="Green">{{Cite journal |last=Greene |first=Oliver N. |year=2002 |title=Ethnicity, Modernity, and Retention in the Garifuna Punta |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1519956 |journal=Black Music Research Journal |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=189β216 |doi=10.2307/1519956 |jstor=1519956}}</ref><ref name="Byron">{{Cite journal |last=Foster |first=Byron |year=1987 |title=Celebrating autonomy: the development of Garifuna ritual on St Vincent |journal=[[Caribbean Quarterly]] |volume=33 |issue=3/4 |pages=75β83 |doi=10.1080/00086495.1987.11671718 |jstor=40654135}}</ref> The name was officially changed from 'Carib' to 'Kalinago' in Dominica in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Admin |date=2015-02-22 |title=Change from Carib to Kalinago now official |url=https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/general/change-from-carib-to-kalinago-now-official/ |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=Dominica News Online |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-11-22 |title=Kalinago please |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fcaribbean%2Fnews%2Fstory%2F2010%2F11%2F101117_kalinago.shtml |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=BBC}}</ref>
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