Qualla: Sauteurs https://qualla.com/sauteurs en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/h/j/sauteurs-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sauteurs https://qualla.com/sauteurs Sauteurs: Introduction https://qualla.com/sauteurs/ Photo credit Kylekieran (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The cemetery sits at the edge of a cliff, and the cliff has a name that will not let you forget what happened there. In 1651, the last Kalinago people on Grenada -- roughly three dozen men, women, and children -- stood on this precipice above the Atlantic and jumped rather than surrender to the French soldiers who had driven them to the island's northern tip. The French called the place "Le Morne des Sauteurs" -- Leapers' Hill. The town that grew up around it simply became Sauteurs. Pronounced "Saut-ez," it is today a fishing village of about 1,300 people, the principal settlement in Grenada's St. Patrick parish. But the cliff remains, and so does the weight of what it witnessed.

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/h/j/sauteurs-wk/ddhj-sauteurs-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sauteurs: The Cliff and the Choice https://qualla.com/sauteurs/ Photo credit Kylekieran (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. What the Kalinago faced in 1651 was not a battle they could win. French colonizers had been pushing through Grenada's interior, and the indigenous defenders -- called Caribs by the Europeans -- had been forced steadily northward. When the last group reached the headland above the...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/h/j/sauteurs-wk/ddhj-sauteurs-the-cliff-and-the-choice.mp3 0:06 2 full Sauteurs: A Village Between Two Seas https://qualla.com/sauteurs/ Photo credit Kylekieran (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Modern Sauteurs faces the Caribbean on its western side and the Atlantic on its east, a position that shapes everything about the place. The town's beach, protected by a breakwater, is the best in the parish -- the others along this northern coast take the full force of Atlantic ...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/h/j/sauteurs-wk/ddhj-sauteurs-a-village-between-two-seas.mp3 0:06 3 full Sauteurs: Crater Lakes and Offshore Islands https://qualla.com/sauteurs/ Photo credit Kylekieran (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The parish surrounding Sauteurs is rich with volcanic geology and coastal wilderness. Lake Antoine, a crater lake fringed with mangrove, sits within walking distance -- a 90-minute hiking circuit traces its rim. Five hundred meters east, Antoine Bay offers a beach of black volcan...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/d/h/j/sauteurs-wk/ddhj-sauteurs-crater-lakes-and-offshore-islands.mp3 0:06 4 full Sauteurs: The Volcano You Hope Not to See https://qualla.com/sauteurs/ Photo credit Kylekieran (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Look north from Sauteurs across the water and you will see Ronde Island, privately owned, with tiny Caille Island beside it. What you will not see -- and should be grateful for -- lies three miles further west beneath the surface. Kick 'em Jenny is an active submarine volcano, th...

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