Salybia
The Only Reserved Territory
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This is the seat of the Kalinago Territory, three thousand seven hundred acres on Dominica's Atlantic coast whose boundaries were gazetted on the fourth of July 1903, the only ground in the Caribbean reserved for an Indigenous people. Eight hamlets lie inside it and a Chief and five councillors are elected to govern them for five years at a time, which makes this a working jurisdiction rather than a memorial to one.
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