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Garífuna Flag Total population 500,000 - 600,000 Image File history File links Flag_of_Garifuna. ... Regions with significant populations Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua[1] Language(s) Garifuna, Spanish, Belize Kriol, English Religion(s) generally Catholic & Christian Related ethnic groups Caribs, Afro-Caribbeans Garífuna refers to both the people and language of the Garínagu. In their own language, Garífuna is the singular and Garinagu is the plural form. The Garífuna live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and mostly Honduras including the mainland, and on the island of Roatán. There are communities of Garífunas in the United States; particularly in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and other major cities; and on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad, Dominica, and St. Vincent.[2] This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Belizean Creole, also called Belizean Kriol or Kriol , is closely related to Miskito Coastal Creole, Rio Abajo Creole, Colón Creole, and San Andrés and Providencia Creole. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Island Carib, who lived on the islands of the Caribbean. ... The African diaspora or Afro diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia . ... Caribbean Coast 2006 near North Lautau Highway & Yi Tung Road Caribbean Coast (Chinese: 映灣園) is a multiphase residential and commercial development in Tung Chung as part of the station development of MTR Tung Chung Station // Grantee of the lot: 地鐵公司 & MTR Corporation Developer: 長江實業(集團)有限公司, Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited, 和記黃埔有限公司,Hutchison Whampoa Limited Architect: Hsin... Roatán, located between the islands of Utila and Guanaja (), is the largest of Honduras Bay Islands. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... This article is about the city in Florida. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see Trinidad (disambiguation). ... Saint Vincent may refer to: Saint Vincent (island) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines São Vicente Saint Vincent de Paul Saint Vincent Ferrer Saint Vincent of Lerins Saint Vincent of Saragossa Saint Vincent Pallotti Saint-Vincent, a municipality of the Valle dAosta, in Italy St. ... Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 Notes 4 Bibliography 5 External links [edit] History The Garífuna are ethnically descended from Amerindian and Carib people; their Garifuna language is a member of the Arawakan language family. The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib to refer to the Garífuna and distinguish them from Yellow or Red Carib - the Amerindians who had not intermarried with Africans. In recent history, Garífuna have thrown off their British appellation and encourage others to refer to them as Garífuna. The Garífuna population is estimated to be around 500,000 -600,000 both in their Central American homeland and in the United States, the latter due to heavy migration from Central America.[3][4] Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman) Drawing of a Carib woman Carib, Island Carib or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named, live in the Lesser Antilles islands. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Arawakan languages are an indigenous language family of South America and the Caribbean. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... One of the earliest accounts of the ancestors of the Garífuna comes from the Frenchman Père Raymond Breton. Living on the island of St. Vincent in the 1630s, he recorded the Black Caribs' story of their migration from Brazil. According to legend, these Arawak speaking peoples of Northern Brazil came to St. Vincent long before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. They lived for a long time in peace and tranquility until one day the island was attacked by a group of Carib-speaking men from the mainland. The Carib men slaughtered all the Arawak men and took the women as their slaves and companions. At some point, two West African slave carrying ships on their way to the Americas arrived on the island and were successfully integrated into the population, adding an African element to the culture. Another version of the origin of "Black Caribs" states that pre-Columbian African explorers intermingled with the indigenous population.[5] Kingstown, St. ... Frontispiece of Peter Martyr dAnghieras De orbe novo (On the New World). Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, 1722. ... When the British took over Saint Vincent after the Treaty of Paris in 1763, they were opposed by French settlers and their Carib allies. After a series of Carib Wars which were encouraged and supported by the French and the death of their leader Satuye (Chatoyer), the Carib eventually surrendered to the British in 1796. The Black Caribs were considered enemies and were deported to Roatán, an island off the coast of Honduras. The British separated the more African-looking Caribs from the more Amerindian looking ones. They decided that the former were enemies who had to be deported, while the latter were merely "misled" and were allowed to remain. Five thousand Black Caribs were deported, but only about 2,500 of them survived the voyage to Roatán. Because the island was too small and infertile to support their population, the Garífuna petitioned the Spanish authorities to be allowed to settle on the mainland. The Spanish employed them as soldiers, and they spread along the Caribbean coast of Central America. The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. ... Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Roatán, located between the islands of Utila and Guanaja (), is the largest of Honduras Bay Islands. ... For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ... They are known for their dance, which is called Punta, and for its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips from right to left in a circular motion. Punta is a type of music found primarily in Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Nicaragua. ... In 2001 UNESCO proclaimed the Garífuna's language, dance and music as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Belize.[6] In 2005 the First Garífuna Summit was held in Corn Island, Nicaragua with the participation of the government of other Central American countries.[7] UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Map showing the distribution of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage by State Parties as of 2005. ... Corn Island is a municipality in the Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur department of Nicaragua. ... [edit] See also Dangriga Garifuna music Raizal British Honduras Miskito Carib Arawak Black Seminoles Cariban languages Arawakan languages Taino Black Carib Sambo Creek Portrayal in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Town street Dangriga, formerly known as Stann Creek Town, is a town in the south of the nation of Belize, at the mouth of the river of Stann Creek on the Caribbean Sea. ... Garifuna music is similarly different from the rest of Central America; the most famous form is punta. ... Flag Capital Belize City Language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy History  - Established 1871  - Disestablished 1981 Area 22,966 km2 8,867 sq mi Currency British Honduran dollar Flag of British Honduras British Honduras was the former name of what is now the independent nation of Belize and was a British... For other uses, see Mosquito (disambiguation). ... Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman) Drawing of a Carib woman Carib, Island Carib or Kalinago people, after whom the Caribbean Sea was named, live in the Lesser Antilles islands. ... Arowak woman (John Gabriel Stedman) The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the West Indies. ... 19th-century engraving depicting a Black Seminole warrior of the First Seminole War (1817–8). ... The Cariban languages are an indigenous language family of South America. ... The Arawakan languages (also Arahuacan, Arawakanas, Arahuacano, Maipurean, Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúrean) are a hypothetical indigenous language family of South America and the Caribbean. ... The Taíno are the pre-Hispanic Amerindian inhabitants of the Greater Antilles, which includes Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Bahamas. ... The Garifuna or Garífuna are an ethnic group in the Caribbean area, decended from a mix of Native American and African people. ... Sambo Creek is a traditional Garífuna village 13 miles east of La Ceiba on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. ... [edit] Notes ^ Post Rust, Susie. "Fishing villages along Central America’s coast pulse with the joyous rhythms of this Afro-Caribbean people.", National Geographic. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.  ^ "Garifuna; Location". Retrieved on 2008-02-14.  ^ Sarah England. Afro Central Americans in New York City: Garifuna Tales of Transnational Movements in Racialized Space. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0813029880.  ^ "Garifuna", Minnesota State University. Retrieved on 2007-09-27.  ^ Van Sertima, Ivan (1976). They came before Columbus. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-40245-6.  ^ "Masterpieces 2001 and 2003", UNESCO. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.  ^ "Primera Cumbre Garifuna", Ministerios de Relaciones Exteriores de Nicaragua. Retrieved on 2007-09-21. (Spanish)  Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... [edit] Bibliography Breton, Raymond (1877) Grammaire caraibe, composée par le p. Raymond Breton, suivie du Catéchisme caraibe. Maisonneuve, Paris. - from 1635 manuscript OCLC 78046575 Flores, Barbara A.T. (2001) Religious education and theological praxis in a context of colonization: Garifuna spirituality as a means of resistance. Ph.D. Dissertation, Garrett/Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. OCLC 47773227 Gonzalez, Nancie L. Solien (1988) The Sojourners of the Caribbean: Ethnogenesis and Ethnohistory of the Garifuna. University of Illinois Press, Chicago, ISBN 0-252-01453-7 Gonzalez, Nancie L. (1997) "The Garifuna of Central America" In: Wilson, Samuel M. (ed.) (1997) The Indigenous People of the Caribbean Virgin Islands Humanities Council, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., pp. 197-205, ISBN 0-8130-1531-6 [edit] External links Garifuna.com Garifuna of Honduras/Cayos Cochinos The Garifuna on NationalGeographic.com Garifuna.org (features a very different history from the one presented above) Categories: African-Native American relations | Ethnic groups in Central America | Ethnic groups in Nicaragua | Ethnic groups in Honduras | Ethnic groups in Belize | Ethnic groups in Guatemala | Ethnic groups in the Caribbean | Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean | Multiracial affairs | Slavery | Bay Islands Hidden category: "Related ethnic groups" needing confirmation

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	Garifuna (1618 words) In the west, Mestizo, Spanish-speaking Roman Catholics, are mainly Garifuna. Garifuna is a name for the people "of the cassava clan," Karifuna. The religion of the Garifuna is a combination of Catholicism, African and Indian beliefs. Garifuna (1661 words) The Garifuna culture displays many influences of its African heritage, and this is extremely evident when comparing their music with the indigenous music of the African societies from which their ancestors originated. Garifuna music relies heavily on the drum, and in many instances their music is dictated by it. The Garifuna perform these rites because like many African societies they believe that spirits of their ancestors, which are both good and evil have direct impact on the lives of people in the living world.
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