Saba's culture bears the influence of its early settlers, among them the English, Scottish, Africans, and Dutch. Because Saba measures only five square miles and has a treacherous coastline (making invasion difficult), its population has always been small. Today its population numbers about 1500 people, with approximately 250 being expatriates. Many of the non-Sabans teach at or attend the Saba University School of Medicine. The English are an ethnic group or nation primarily associated with England and the English language. ... This article is about the Scottish as an ethnic group. ... Motto: Remis Velisque. ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form, expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of his upbringing or legal residence. ...

Although archaeologists have found evidence of early Amerindian presence, a group of shipwrecked Englishmen in 1632 found the island uninhabited. During the colonial period, Saba's ownership changed hands many times between the Spanish, English, Dutch, and French. Now part of the Netherlands Antilles, Saba's official language is Dutch. However, the majority of Sabans actually speak English as their first language. English has been added to Saba's school curriculum by the Dutch government as a result. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

Most Sabans are descended from a handful of families. Hassell, Simmons, and Johnson are common surnames. Early settlers relied on farming, fishing, sailing, and shipbuilding for their livings; pirates sought haven there, too. They passed down a hardy nature necessary to survive the island's conditions. Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Because of the difficult terrain (the island is a dormant volcano rising out of the sea), modern conveniences were slow to come to Saba. In 1938, construction began to connect its four villages with a road – a feat which engineers had said was impossible due to the island's perilous landscape. Full-time electricity only became available in the 1970s. Its houses have a quaint, cottage look with red roofs. The lifestyle is still slow and old-fashioned with little nightlife, even with the emergence of an ecotourism industry in the last few decades. Sabans are proud of their history of environmental conservation, calling Saba “The Unspoiled Queen.” Volcano 1. ... Ecotourism means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. ...

Saban women continue to make two traditional island products, Saba Lace and Saba Spice. Saba Lace is handstitched lace, which the island's women began making in the late 1800s and built into a thriving mail-order business with the United States. Saba Spice is a rum drink, brewed with a combination of spices.

As in other Caribbean locations, Sabans throw an annual Carnival. Saba's Carnival takes place the last week in July and includes parades, steel bands, competitions, and food. World map depicting Caribbean : West Indies redirects here. ... Caribbean Carnival is an event that takes place in many of the Caribbean islands annually. ...

Catholicism is Saba's predominant religion. Other faiths practiced on the island include Anglican, Seventh Day Adventist, Wesleyan Holiness, and Judaism. As a Christian ecclesiastical term, Catholic - from the Greek adjective , meaning general or universal[2] - is described in the Oxford Dictionary as follows: ~Church, (originally) whole body of Christians; ~, belonging to or in accord with (a) this, (b) the church before separation into Greek or Eastern and Latin or Western... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA), colloquially referred to as the Adventists, is an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination that grew out of the prophetic Millerite movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. ...

References

• Saba's official tourism website
• Saba's culture