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Annotated Bibliography (Kalinago)
Source 1: “Canoe Building.” Indigenous Kalinago People of Dominica, www.kalinagoarchive.org/canoe-building/.

"Canoe Building" provided by kalinagoarchive.org, focuses on the importance that canoes play in the material culture and economics of the Kalinago. This source provides a brief overview of the canoes used for fishing and shows a couple of pictures of the canoes in the discussion. While this source is a .org, it is authoritative because of who is providing the information. The page, managed by the Kalinago Council or the official representative of the Kalinago, is used to provide information that has yet to be well-distributed. I mostly used this first source to introduce the topic and to identify the general idea and purpose for the usage of canoes in their culture. As we go into the other sources, I will get more information on the logistics and details.

Source 2: Shearn, Issac (2020). "Canoe Societies in the Caribbean: Ethnography, Archaeology, and Ecology of Precolonial Canoe Manufacturing and Voyaging". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 57.

"Canoe Societies in the Caribbean: Ethnography, Archaeology, and Ecology of Precolonial Canoe Manufacturing and Voyaging" written by Issac Shearn focuses on the more intricate details of the process of canoe building and the spiritual meanings behind the trees that they use. This source comes from the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 57, written by Issac Shearn, an adjunct professor at Coppin State University. This would be an authoritative source because it comes from a recognized and well-respected journal. I used this source to provide general information on the types of trees that they use to create the canoes, as well as to provide a spiritual context to the meaning of the trees.

Source 3: Honychurch, Lennox (1997). Carib to Creole : contact and culture exchange in Dominica. University of Oxford.

"Carib to Creole: contact and culture exchange in Dominica" written by Lennox Honychurch, discusses the renewed interest and revival of the traditional dug-out canoes among the Kalinago. Published by the University of Oxford, this source is reliable and can be trusted to provide accurate information. The author is also Lennox Honeychurch, Dominica's most noted historian. I used this source to finalize my research and connect it to the discussion of the BBC canoe project. This project, brought to fruition after the Kalinago had a renewed interest in their traditional canoes, created more interest in the Kalinago and their history. My information served as background information to a section that did not address why they were significant to their culture.