Thomas 'Indian' Warner

Indian Warner was born in the year 1630 to Sir Thomas Warner (the English Governor) and a Dominican Kalinago woman. Sir Thomas treated him as his own, and raised and educated him among his other children. After his father had died however, the boy was treated badly by his step mother and felt that he had to leave the household. Though his half brother Phillip defended him, he fled to the Island of Dominica; which was at the time, inhabited by Kalinagos. He took refuge among them, learned their traditional ways, and was later made their Chief.

Though he was Chief of the Kalinagos, Indian Warner still kept contact with the British. In 1664 he helped them attack the French settlers in St. Lucia, by leading 600 Kalinagos to the Island on 17 canoes. The following year, Lord Francis Willoughby, made him deputy Governor, in hopes of gaining control of the Island of Dominica. In 1666, Warner was captured by the French and was badly treated in Guadeloupe and St. Kitts. He was released after two years when a peace treaty was signed. In 1674, the Kalinagos raided the island of Antigua. Phillip Warner, Governor of Antigua at the time, lead a counter-attack on the Kalinagos. Indian Warner was then killed by his half brother Phillip, in the commence of this attack.