Editing Kalinago (section)

===Canoes===
[[Canoes]] are a significant aspect of the Kalinago's material culture and economy. They are used for transport from the southern continent and islands of the Caribbean, as well as providing them with the ability to fish more efficiently and to grow their fishing industry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canoe Building |url=http://www.kalinagoarchive.org/canoe-building/ |website=Indigenous Kalinago People of Dominica }}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Canoes, constructed from the [[Burseraceae]], ''[[Cedrela odorata]]'', ''[[Ceiba pentandra]]'', and ''[[Hymenaea courbaril]]'' trees, serve different purposes depending on their height and thickness of the bark. The ''Ceiba pentandra'' tree is not only functional but spiritual and believed to house spirits that would become angered if disturbed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shearn |first=Issac |date=2020 |title=Canoe Societies in the Caribbean: Ethnography, Archaeology, and Ecology of Precolonial Canoe Manufacturing and Voyaging |journal=Journal of Anthropological Archaeology |volume=57 |page=101140 |doi=10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101140 |s2cid=213414242 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Canoes have been used throughout the history of the Kalinago and have become a renewed interest within the manufacturing of traditional dugout canoes used for inter-island transportation and fishing.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Honychurch |first=Lennox |title=Carib to Creole: contact and culture exchange in Dominica |publisher=University of Oxford |year=1997}}</ref>

In 1997 [[Dominica]] Carib artist Jacob Frederick and [[Tortola]] artist Aragorn Dick Read set out to build a traditional canoe based on the fishing canoes still used in Dominica, [[Guadeloupe]] and [[Martinique]]. They launched a voyage by canoe to the [[Orinoco delta]] to meet up with the local Kalinago tribes, re-establishing cultural connections with the remaining Kalinago communities along the island chain, documented by the [[BBC]] in ''The Quest of the Carib Canoe''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quest of the Carib Canoe |url=http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/orange/quest_of_the_carib_canoe.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911042932/http://nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/orange/quest_of_the_carib_canoe.htm |archive-date=2013-09-11 |access-date=2013-09-05}}</ref>