A West Indian is a native or inhabitant of the West Indies (the Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago).For more than 100 years the words West Indian specifically described natives of the West Indies, but by 1661 Europeans had begun to use it also to describe the descendants of European colonists who stayed in the West Indies. Some West Indian people reserve this term …

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) or "sea cow", also known as North American manatee, is the largest member of the aquatic mammal order Sirenia (which also includes the dugong and the extinct Steller's sea cow). It is further divided into two subspecies, the Florida manatee (T. m. latirostris) and the Antillean or Caribbean manatee (T. m. manatus), based on …