History was made in the Caribbean Island nation of St Kitts (formerly known as Saint Christopher) today (30th July 2023), when the little-known Indigenous descendants of the first English settler in the Caribbean - Sir Thomas Warner, visited his grave to conduct a spiritual reprimand ceremony of his spirit - for the evils he did to the Kalinago people of St Kitts (his successful colony and burial place).
It is a well-known historical fact that Sir Thomas Warner was welcomed and allowed to settle on the Caribbean Island of St Kitts by Kalinago Chief Tegremon in the year 1624, and Tegremon allowed the French to settle there in 1625, being so generous as to allow the two European colonist groups to establish and settle on opposite ends of the island and share it with the Kalinagos - who retained the middle of the island. However, just one year later in 1626, while the Kalinagos were gathering in the dry season, Sir Thomas Warner and his local French colonist leader counterpart 'Pierre d'Esnambuc' - launched a surprise attack on the Kalinagos and unleashed a genocide that ended with over 2,000 Kalinagos being herded into their sacred bat cave ravine (called 'bloody point' today) - where they were obliterated by musket fire by English and french forces safely high up on the ravine sides firing down on them indiscriminately.
It is also a well-known historical fact that the great Kalinago Chief 'Carib Warner' who was the half-white/half Kalinago last son of Sir Thomas Warner (who captured his Kalinago mother as a young woman, from Dominica - as his native concubine, and beat her until she had no physical strength left to resist him raping her, he did, however, show love to his mixed-race son who was quickly referred to as 'Carib Warner' early on in his life, but when Sir Thomas Warner died, his first son Phillip (from his first wife who was English like Sir Thomas) showed nothing but racist contempt for his mixed-race brother - and when 'Carib Warner' could no longer tolerate the abuse, he fled to Dominica and sought refuge among his mother's people there, in due course he rose to prominence among his mother's people and later became the Greatest Kalinago Chief in the recorded history of the Caribbean. It is also well-known that his white brother Phillip Warner later pretended to want to make peace with his brother 'Carib Warner' (who was considered the most important Kalinago ally of the English settlers in Barbados who gave him the title of 'Governor of Dominica' - who refused to help the English colonists in St Kitts and other nearby subsequent English settlements - to fight the Dominica Kalinagos, because the Barbados colonists depended on them to provide wood and drinking water) and during a traditional celebration - where the Kalinagos got intoxicated, Phillip treacherously murdered his own brother 'Carib Warner' and then massacred almost everyone in his village, including his own brothers Kalingo wife and most of his children.
However, there is a little-known historical fact in family oral tradition, that the Barbados English settlers rescued one of the young sons of 'Carib Warner' who survived the murder of his father and massacre of his family and village unleashed by his white uncle Phillip Warner, and took this boy to Barbados to raise him in exile - with the plan to return him to Dominica and make him into another powerful Dominica Kalinago Chief who would be friendly to the Barbados English settlers - just like his father was...but the lad showed no interest in ever returning to the land of his childhood trauma, and instead, he married a white English colonist in Barbados as an adult, and ended his days in Barbados. Fast forward 200 years and a female descendant of this surviving son of Carib Warner who lived in exile in Barbados - by the name of Florence Warner, married Fotheringham Corbin, and they had 3 sons and one daughter, with one of their sons being George Cecil Corbin (Track & Paddock manager at the Barbados Turf Club) - who married Lokono-Arawak Hannah Mariah DeWever of Guyana, (daughter of the daughter of the last traditional hereditary Lokono-Arawak Chief of the Eagle clan in Guyana- who married Vivian Arnold DeWever in Guyana - a prominent businessman in Georgetown) with George & Hannah having 7 children - all born in Barbados, Sheila, Daphne, Cecil, Merton, Audrey, Judith, and Cheryl, Audrey married Geddes Francis Corrie - and the couple had 4 children, Lisa, Russell, Craig, and Damon - also all born in Barbados.
It was Damon, with his Guyana-born Lokono-Arawak wife (Shirling Simon-Corrie) from Pakuri Territory in Region 4, and their Lokono-Arawak Pakuri-born youngest daughter Laliwa Hadali Corrie, who visited the grave of Damon's ancestor Sir Thomas Warner in St Kitts on 30th July 2023 - to conduct the historic ritual of Karmic closure - by the indigenous descendants of one of the Caribbeans most notorious genociders of the Kalinago people
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