"Pre-Columbian" refers to the American indigenous cultures until they were conquered/influenced by Europeans. This term still applies even if this happened after Columbus' initial landing.
Carbi:
At the time of the Spanish invasion, the Caribbean people lived in Lesser Antilles and parts of the neighboring South American coast. The Island Carib were warlike immigrants from the mainland. They were expert navigators, who made distant raids in large dugout canoes. Internal conflict was common in their society. They lived in small villages and haunted animals by arrow or bow. Their culture was typical of a tribe of the tropical forest.
The Caribbean Sea as well as the English word cannibal are results of the Arawakan equivalent of Carib. Today the term Cariban is used to designate a linguistic group that includes not only the language of the Antillean Carib, but also many related Indian languages spoken in South America. In traditional Caribbean society, Men spoke the Caribe language and women used Arawark. This was due to the Carib raids on the Arawark people.
The religion that the Carib practiced was a type of polytheists. Columbus thought that they were pagan, but later discovered they were not. There was always the belief that the Caribs were cannibals because of bone collections found in their dwellings. This was disproved later, finding that they kept the bones of relatives for good luck.
I choose the Carib people to research because some day, hopefully soon, I will go to Barbados and meet them. So why not do a little brushing up for the trip…I used Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica as my two references. They are reliable and well organized. I looked on YouTube for a great little video and found one; it doesn’t have much to do with the Pre-Columbian Carib people. It is a fantastic example of what you might find in this Post-Columbian time; Festival Afrique-Carib!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carib
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/95780/Carib
Just for some fun…bonus video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPoQFaTH8mA
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