by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was originally inhabited by the Kalinago (Island Carib) people, who called the main island Hairoun, and it also became home to the Garifuna, a community formed from the intermixing of indigenous Kalinago and West African peoples during...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Saint Lucia was inhabited by Indigenous Arawak and later Carib peoples before European contact. The island changed hands repeatedly between France and Britain over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, earning the nickname “Helen of the West Indies”...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Before European contact, the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis were inhabited by the Kalinago (Carib) and earlier Arawak peoples, who lived off fishing and small-scale agriculture in the fertile volcanic terrain. Saint Kitts was among the first Caribbean islands...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Peru was home to numerous advanced pre-Columbian civilizations, most notably the Inca Empire, which by the fifteenth century had become the largest empire in the Americas, with its capital at Cusco and an extensive road network connecting the Andes. Spanish...
by Strong Americas | Jul 16, 2026
Before Spanish arrival, the region was inhabited primarily by the Guaraní people, whose language and culture left a lasting imprint on the territory; Guaraní remains a co-official language alongside Spanish today. Spanish colonizers founded Asunción in 1537, and...
