Hi all! For this week’s post, I will be referring to the Caquetio Indian culture of Bonaire. Before continuing, I would like to mention that this tribe’s name includes the word “Indian,” I am not choosing to call them by the sometimes-derogatory word.
Endangered cultures are cultures that are close to losing the people that enjoy them or are being edged out of a certain population’s cultural sphere. This is a big deal when it comes to history in certain parts of the world, especially when looking at ethnocides or genocides.
As I mentioned in my last post on Bonaire (“Bonaire, Week 3”), the Caquetio tribe become slaves to the Dutch in the early sixteenth century (~1515). Over the next two hundred years, these men and women were enslaved on plantations and used for economic reasons, exploited and disgraced. 
There are larger amounts of Caquetio Indians in northern Venezuela, but those on Bonaire have an exceptionally small population, ratio-wise to the 1400s. As one might guess, the culture of those on the small island of Bonaire is unique to that in Venezuela, especially when it comes to fishing and other water-related cultural practices. This form of culture is certainly dying out on the island because the culture is not nearly as much of a basis of tourism as, for example, the Aztecs or Mayans are.
Citations:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24395921?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents