Editing Tobago (section)

===Indigenous Tobago===
[[File:Tobago jade ceremonial ax.jpg|thumb|left|[[Greenstone (archaeology)|Greenstone]] ceremonial axe, from [[shell midden]], Mount Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957.]]
Tobago was settled by indigenous people belonging to the [[Ortoiroid people|Ortoiroid cultural tradition]] some time between 3500 and 1000 BCE.<ref name="Boomert">{{Cite book|title=The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago : from the first settlers until today|last=Boomert|first=Arie|date=2016-01-15|isbn=9789088903540|location=Leiden|oclc=944910446}}</ref>{{Rp|21–24}} In the first century of the [[Common Era]], [[Saladoid]] people settled in Tobago.<ref name = "Reid2004">{{Cite journal|last=Reid|first=Basil|date=2004|title=Reconstructing the Saladoid Religion of Trinidad and Tobago|journal=The Journal of Caribbean History|volume=32|pages=243–278}}</ref> They brought with them pottery-making and agricultural traditions, and are likely to have introduced crops which included [[cassava]], [[sweet potato]]es, [[Dioscorea trifida|Indian yam]], [[Xanthosoma|tannia]] and [[Maize|corn]].<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|32–34}} Saladoid cultural traditions were later modified by the introduction of the [[Barrancoid people|Barrancoid]] culture, either by trade or a combination of trade and settlement.<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|34–44}} After 650 CE, the Saladoid culture was replaced by the Troumassoid tradition in Tobago.<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|45}} Troumassoid traditions were once thought to represent the settlement of the [[Island Caribs]] in the Lesser Antilles and Tobago, but this is now associated with the Cayo ceramic tradition. No archaeological sites exclusively associated with the Cayo tradition are known from Tobago.<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|60}}

Tobago's location made it an important point of connection between the Kalinago of the Lesser Antilles and their Kalina allies and trading partners in the [[The Guianas|Guianas]] and [[Venezuela]]. In the 1630s Tobago was inhabited by the Kalina, while the neighbouring island of Grenada was shared by the Kalina and Kalinago.<ref name="Boomert"/>{{Rp|115–119}}

Columbus sighted Tobago on 14 August 1498, during his fourth voyage, but he did not land.<ref name="Learie">{{Cite book|last=Learie|first=Luke B.|title=Identity and secession in the Caribbean : Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980|date=2007|publisher=University of the West Indies Press|isbn=978-9766401993|location=Kingston, Jamaica|oclc=646844096}}</ref>{{Rp|2}} The Spanish settlers in Hispaniola were authorised to conduct slave raids against the island in a royal order issued in 1511.<ref name="Boomert"/> These raids, which continued until at least the 1620s,<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|115–119}} decimated the island's population.<ref name="Boomert" />{{Rp|83}}