Carib Territory

Traditional wooden buildings and tin and tar-paper shanties are found in this rural area amid banana trees and breadfruit.

Dominica has the only remaining tribe of Carib Indians in the Caribbean. A little more than 3,000 people live on a 3,700ac/1497ha reserve on the north-east coast of Dominica. In 1903, after most of the indigenous population had been eradicated by European diseases, Britain had the surviving Caribs agree to live on this reserve.

The land in the Carib Territory is owned by the Carib Council with Salibia the main settlement. The Caribs survive through fishing, agriculture and the crafts they sell to visitors. The traditional manufacturing of dugout canoes is an interesting sight.