Indigenous Peoples of Central America & Caribbean

Indigenous peoples that occupied parts of present-day El Salvador and Honduras

• Lenca

• Taino

• Carib

• Arawak

Migration is

• Movement from one place to another

• Remaining stationary in one location.

• Something only birds and animals do.

• Impossible to do between island countries.

This was once the most numerous indigenous tribe in the Caribbean

• Taino

• Miskito

• Arawak

• Huatares

A legacy is

• Important things such as memories, knowledge or ways of life that are passed down from the past to the present

• A brand-new activity that only one person in a cultural group knows about

• A collection of insignificant cultural artifacts.

• Not necessary for the history of a culture to live on.

This indigenous group likely died out due to the violence, brutality and oppression of Spanish explorers

• Arawak

• Miskito

• Lenca

• Huatares

This Central American group lived along the northwestern coast of Nicaragua

• Miskito

• Arawak

• Carib

• Taino

Indigenous means

• The first people to live in a place

• The first people to colonize a place

• People who move to a new place from somewhere else

• People who visit a place for a brief time

Indigenous peoples from Costa Rica who lost their lingua franca due to colonization

• Huetars

• Carib

• Taino

• Lenko

A language that is used between persons who do not share the same first language.

• Lingua Franca

• Spanish

• English

• French

This indigenous group was often warlike and occupied the Lesser Antilles and parts of South America.

• Carib

• Arawak

• Taino

• Lenko