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The #Garifuna are descendants of Carib, Arawak, and West African people who live throughout Central America along the Caribbean Coast. (Taken with Instagram)
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Posted June 30, 2012 at 2:31pm in Garifuna
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Chachawuate Wash Woman, Honduras
Photograph by Susie Post Rust, 2001“A Garífuna woman scrubs clothes on a washboard in the Honduran coastal village of Chachawuate. The Garífuna culture was born when a slave ship wrecked off St. Vincent in 1635, throwing together West Africans aboard the vessel with St. Vincent’s Carib Indians, originally immigrants from South America. Today some 60 Garífuna fishing villages dot the Central American coast.”
Posted April 23, 2012 at 2:21pm in Garifuna
International Year for People of African-descent
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Members of the Garifuna community near Tela, Honduras. The Garifuna people are of mixed African, Arawak, and Carib ancestry and native to the Caribbean Coast in Central America.
Posted April 22, 2012 at 2:39pm in Garifuna
Posted January 23, 2012 at 1:35pm in Garifuna Cayos Cochinos Honduras Central America Caribbean Black Indians
Cayo Chachahuate - Cayo Chachahuate
This is a small island where some Garifuna people live. You can walk around the perimeter of the island in about 20 minutes. Most of the people are fisherman.
Posted January 23, 2012 at 1:25pm in Cayo Chachahuate Cayo Chachahuate Garifuna Central America Caribbean Black Indians Indigenous
The New York Times takes a look at how complicated the US Census can be for Caribbean-Americans. For example, the Garifunas, who are part African, part Caribbean and part Central American, don’t fit into any box.
(Source: The New York Times)
Posted January 23, 2012 at 1:20pm in Garifuna Indigenous Caribbean Central America identity Black Indians
