Garífuna refers to both the people and language of the Garínagu. In their own language, Garifuna is the singular and Garinagu is the plural form. The Garifuna live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala (Livingston), Nicaragua and Honduras on the mainland, and on the island of Roatán. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... 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... Livingston is the name of a town in the Izabal province of Guatemala, at the mouth of the Rio Dulce at the Gulf of Honduras. ... Roatán, located between the islands of Utila and Guanaja (), is the largest of Honduras Bay Islands. ...

The Garifuna are ethnically descended from Amerindian and African people; their language is a dialect of the Arawakan language family. The British colonial administration used the term Black Carib to refer to the Garifuna and distinguish them from Yellow Carib - the Amerindians who had not intermarried with Africans. In recent history, Garifuna have thrown off their colonial appellation and encourage others to refer to them as Garifuna. The Garifuna population is estimated to be around 400,000 both in the Caribbean homeland and in the United States, the latter due to heavy migration from Central America.^[2] 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. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... The Arawakan languages are an indigenous language family of South America and the Caribbean. ...

One of the earliest accounts of the ancestors of the Garifuna 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, the 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, escaped African slaves arrived on the island and were successfully integrated into the population, adding an African element to the culture. Kingstown, St. ...

A more fantastic, but scientifically unproven, version of the origin of "Black Caribs" states that pre-Columbian African explorers intermingled with the indigenous population (see "They Came Before Columbus" by Ivan van Sertima). Ivan van Sertima is an American afrocentrist historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University. ...

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 2,000 of them survived the voyage to Roatán. Because the island was too small and infertile to support their population, the Garifuna 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. 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. ...

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, El Salvador, and Belize. ...

In 2001 UNESCO proclaimed the Garifunas 'language, dance and music' as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Belize.^[3] In 2005 the First Garífuna Summit was held in Corn Island, Nicaragua with the participation of the government of other Central American countries.^[4] UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Corn Island is a municipality in the Región Autónoma del Atlántico Sur department of Nicaragua. ...

See also

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 the insect, see mosquito The Miskito are a Native American people in Central America. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The term Arawak (from aru, the Lokono word for cassava flour), was used to designate the Amerindians encountered by the Spanish in the Caribbean. ... 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. ...

Notes

References

• 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

External links

• Garifuna of Honduras/Cayos Cochinos
• Garifuna of Honduras
• The Garifuna on NationalGeographic.com
• Garifuna.org
• labuga.com
• Photos of a Garifuna village in northern Honduras