jamaican native tribes

  • 100

    Ciboney tribe

    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
  • 400

    Saladoid tribe

    the culture was called Saladoid culture for the peculiar forms of ceramics and the prosperity of the culture
  • Dec 14, 650

    Arawak

    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.
  • Dec 14, 1532

    Maroons

    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