By 1626 both the British and the French settlements were expanding at such a rate that the Carib community began to perceive a threat to its very existence on the island. Joining forces with Caribs from a number of other islands, Chief Tegremare prepared to attack the European settlements. Meanwhile, despite growing animosity between the French and the British, the two communities put aside their differences in order to mount a combined, pre-emptive attack on the Carib. As a result, over 2,000 Carib Indians were massacred at Bloody Point.
With their imperialistic designs and a hunger for all the gold, territories and new treasure the islands of the New World had to offer, the English came to the island blinded by their greed. The rivalry and tension between the colonists and the Amerindian settlers that were found on the island was expected and only made worse by obvious communication barriers. Bloody Point is the site where thousands of Indigenous Peoples were massacred at the hands of these giddy explorers born of the Renaissance. It's name evokes such gory images, none of which I am sure fall short of what occurred at the Canyon, for it is said that the river bed was drenched and ran red with the blood of the thousands of Indians that were massacred there. A morbid example of the genocidal acts which rendered these Indians extinct. In 2000, a service was held at the River to free the souls of the Indians that were massacred there.