This film highlights the Caribbean's rich racial and cultural mix. Witness an Orissa naming ceremony with a West African family and visit a Hindu village during a spiritual leader’s birthday celebration in Trinidad and Tobago. In Dominica, meet the Carib people, whose ancestors came to the islands thousands of years ago. A man teaches his daughter to make a dugout canoe from a tree trunk—preserving an age old tradition. BBC Production.

Originally released by BBC, 2011. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 29, 2015.

Caribbean Ancestry (2:24); --West African Domestic Structure (1:36); -- Orissa Naming Ceremony (3:12); -- Trinidad's Hindu Culture (1:56); -- Hindu Party Preparations (2:14); -- Carib Territory (1:27); -- Search for a Canoe Tree (2:37); -- Building a Canoe (2:26); -- Credits: People: Landmarks—Caribbean Islands (0:41); .