Dominica: the "Carib Reserve" becomes the Kalinago Territory (Dominica, 1903–2015)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1903 · Places: Caribbean
SUMMARYDominica: the "Carib Reserve" becomes the Kalinago Territory (Dominica, 1903–2015) [Connections: Latin America & Caribbean, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDAdministrator Henry Hesketh Bell proposed the reserve in 1902; boundaries were gazetted 4 July 1903, about 3,700 acres, roughly 2% of the island; about 400 people lived there at formation, 2,112 in the 2011 census. Bell gave the chief a staff and a sash reading "The Chief of the Caribs." After a 1930 police raid over smuggled goods at Salybia, in which two people died, the post of chief was abolished and the former chief was barred from calling himself "king"; it was restored in June 1952. In 2015 Parliament approved the name "Kalinago Territory"; the old term "Carib" is described as "laden with derogatory connotations."
PATTERNA colonial reserve with a colonial name, a chieftainship granted and then revoked by the same administration, and a nation that renamed itself on paper in 2015
LENS (WW9)The Kalinago took back their own name on the law books
OPENThe 1930 incident's official report and Dominica's census treatment of "Carib" identity need deep research