• According to Vasquez de Espinosa and K.S. Wise, the Amerindians of north Trinidad and in the three Missions listed were Nepuyo, whose language is part of the Cariban language family
  
• Festivals in honour of the patron saint of a given mission were commonly celebrated by the Amerindians, such as the Santa Rosa Festival in Arima which grew out of this period
  
• According to several sources, 1,320 acres of land were set aside for the Amerindians in Arima and Calvary Hill
  
• The Mission of Arima lasted at least until 1849--yet, according to Fr. Louis Daudier in 1873, parish priest for Arima, the Mission "has never been destroyed by any official act".
  
• In 1893, Father Marie-Bertrand Cothonay wrote of a King of the Indians, Pedro Lopez
  

• The aboriginal name for Trinidad is "Cairi", meaning island in Lokono
  
• Trinidad is the oldest site of human habitation in the Caribbean archipelago, with remains dating to over 7,200 years Before Present, when a land bridge still connected Trinidad to the mainland
  
• Many of Trinidad's current place names are of Amerindian origin (i.e., Arima, Chaguanas, Paria), or are of Amerindian derivation (i.e., Piarco from Parico; Guaico from Guaiuco; or Arouca from Aruaca)
  
• For much of its pre-colonial history, Trinidad was home to many mainland aboriginal tribes such as the Yaio, Shebaio, Nepuyo, Chaguanes, Cumanagoto, QuaQua, Chaima, Caribes, Lokono, and Warao, amongst others
  
• Tobago was mainly possessed by island-based Kalinago, with ties to Dominica and St. Vincent
  
• South western Trinidad is an important spiritual centre for the Warao, with Naparima Hill at the focus of their cosmology. Until the 1960s, there were regular visits from the Warao
  
• On the dawn of Columbus' arrival to Trinidad in 1498, there were an estimated 40,000 aboriginals living on the island--even up to 1593, Governor Antonio de Berrio wrote of Trinidad: "Having overrun the island and made the description of all the natives there, there are found some 7,000 souls, and so many Indians married that they would exceed 35,000 souls"
  
• A number of practices derived from pre-colonial times form part of the cultural patrimony of Trinidad: words and names, the ajoupa, cassava processing, herbal remedies, the ubiquitous maracas, hammocks, canoes, etc.
  

Governor Antonio de Berrio, 1594: "part of the natives have rebelled and the Caribes of the island of Dominica and Grenada and other neighbouring places, harass and injure me"

• Trinidad's aboriginals were the first to fight European colonisation in the island, with stunning episodes including the war of 1532 against Antonio Sedeno, the 1637 assault by Chief Hyarima and the expulsion of the Spanish from St. Joseph, and the 1699 Amerindian uprising at the Mission of San Francisco de los Arenales, coordinated with Warao assistance
  
• "In this place where I was the Chief": amongst the prominent Chiefs in colonial Trinidad were Aracoraima, Bacunar, Paralaure, Maquarima, Wannawanare, Carroari, Tarupanama, Aterima, Hyarima, and Maruana
  
• With the onset of epidemics such as Smallpox, Yellow Fever, and Cholera, along with the strains of war and coerced labour, added to increased Hispanisation, Trinidad's aboriginal society began to decline. However, Trinidad's aboriginals never lost their land in any war, never signed it away in any treaty, and never became extinct.
  
• Even though by the 1780s Trinidad was still largely "an Amerindian society", Capuchin Missions became the centrepiece of a commercial and military strategy to "reduce" the aboriginals
  
• Amerindians of the Missions of San Agustin de Arauca (Arouca), San Pablo de Tacarigua (Tacarigua), and the Partido de Quare (Caura), were amalgamated at the Mission of Arima after the 1783 Cedula de población
  

• The Santa Rosa Festival, with its King and Queen, dating at least to the early 1800s, continues to be the main festival of today's Carib Community
  
• The Carib Community is recognised by the state as having contributed to the national cultural foundation, and have received numerous awards and support from various branches of government