Views of the modern Caribbean have been constructed by a fiction of the absent aboriginal. Yet all across the Caribbean Basin individuals and communities are reasserting their identities as indigenous peoples from Carib communities in the Lesser Antilles the Garifuna of Central America and the Tano of the Greater Antilles to members of the Caribbean diaspora. Far from extinction or permanent marginality the region is witnessing a resurgence of native identification and organization. This is the only volume to date that focuses concerted attention on a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Territories covered include Belize Cuba Dominica the Dominican Republic French Guiana Guyana St. Vincent Suriname Trinidad and Tobago and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Writing from a range of contemporary perspectives on indigenous presence identities the struggle for rights relations with the nationstate and globalization fourteen scholars including four indigenous representatives contribute to this unique testament to cultural survival. This book will be indispensable to students of Caribbean history and anthropology indigenous studies ethnicity and globalization.