A West Indian is a
native or inhabitant of the
West Indies (the
Antilles and the
Lucayan Archipelago). For more than 100 years the words ''West Indian'' specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it also to describe the descendants of European colonists who stayed in the West Indies.
Some West Indian people reserve this term for citizens or natives of the
British West Indies
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grena ...
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See also
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Caribbean people
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History of colonialism
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History of the West Indian cricket team
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
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West Indian American
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