Years of Columbus a lie, yet we survive

Kalinago revivalism, climate resilience, and ecotourism development in the Nature Isle

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ID2389464
AuthorsKimberly Dawn Miller (0000-0003-1695-5787, Florida International University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume20
Issue1
Pages67-76
Publication date2024-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/11771801241235050
OpenAlexW4392623726
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited48

The Commonwealth of Dominica pledged to become the world's first climate-resilient country after the devastation of Hurricane Maria, with ecotourism being part of that sustainable development strategy. Ecotourism growth on the lush eastern Caribbean island has since surpassed pre-storm levels, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crucial to the government's sustainable resilience strategy has been ethno-cultural tourism of the island's Kalinago (Indigenous peoples of the Lesser Antilles) community such as handicraft instruction, food preparation, canoe building, Indigenous-led tours, and cultural entertainment centers. This article explores development of a comprehensive ecotourism industry in the Indigenous district of Kalinago Territory as a means toward economic sustainability in the Nature Isle with focus on Kalinago cultural producers and their ongoing contestations of Indigenous absence in the Caribbean through a framework of Indigenous Caribbean revival

Archaeology · Ecotourism · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · American Environmental and Regional History · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Environmental Science · History · Philosophy

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