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Amerindian Policies
Amerindian Policies
(National Development Strategy of Guyana)
About one hundred and fifty years ago, the different Amerindian peoples tended to be located in specific natural environments across Guyana. Many factors altered the traditional settlement patterns: the process of Amerindian migration to Christian mission stations beginning in the 1840s; recent movements towards where there might be a school, shop or health centre; the impact of diseases; the transformation on the coastal plain following European settlement and plantation agriculture; the impact of investment in the interior and so on.