Introduction: On Contact, Indigeneity, and Hybridization in the Circum-Caribbean Paula Prescod Section 1: Intertwined Beginnings and Layers of Linguistic and Cultural Hybridization Chapter 1: The Warner Experiment: A hybrid Commonwealth in the Lesser Antillean Sugar Frontier Ernesto Mercado-Montero Chapter 2: Contact, Exchange, and Hybridity: Decolonial Re-readings of Garifuna History and the of the Indigenous Americas Nicholas Faraclas, Fernando Alvarado, Santiago Ruiz, Melinda Maxwell, and Cesar Sabio Chapter 3: Revisiting the Carib Story Adrian Fraser Chapter 4: The Kalinago: Linguistic Mediators in the Colonial Caribbean Silke Jansen Section 2: Intertwined Processes of Indigenization, Indigenous Identification and Mobilities Chapter 5: the Culcha Hybrid Identities and Music-Making in a Globalizing Garifuna Village Lauren Madrid Poluha Chapter 6: Becoming Garinagu: The Prospects of Intercultural Bilingual Education for the Reclamation of Garifuna Heritage in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sarah-Lee Gonsalves Chapter 7: Mediating Hybrid Identities and Resisting Marginalization in Defining Garifuna, Carib and Kalinago Cultures Andrea E. Leland, Lauren Madrid Poluha, and Paula Prescod Chapter 8: Hair as a Signifier of Indigeneity in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Paula Prescod Chapter 9: The Third Exile: Honduran Garinagu Negotiate Indigeneity and Mobility in the Face of Forced Migration Sarah England.