
Gli Gli Voyage – Traditional Caribbean Canoes
by Mimi George and Aragorn Dick-Read In 1995 a 35 foot long Carib fishing canoe made in Dominica Island. The tree that became Gli Gli grew on the 4000 acre parcel of remote Atlantic coast that is home for Carib (Kalinago) people. They are the survivors of violent European incursion in the 1600s. Sugar plantations thrived everywhere on Dominica except the mountainous area that became the Carib Reserve. There the trees had not been cleared for sugar production. Kalinago people