jamaican native tribes

Ciboney tribe

100

first migrants were called Ciboney Inidans. They probably came from Florida or Yucatan and migrated southward to the Greater Antilles basic tools for fishing and gathering

Saladoid tribe

400

the culture was called Saladoid culture for the peculiar forms of ceramics and the prosperity of the culture

Arawak

Dec 14, 650

Used to the heat of the rain forest, Arawak families lived without clothes. Arawak men had never done gardening or work around home. They only hunted fish, and let the women do the rest.

Maroons

Dec 14, 1532

The Jamaican Maroons are descended from Africans who fought and escaped from slavery and established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica during the long era of slavery on the islan