The Garifuna The Garifuna: part African, part Native
The Garifuna are known for their sensual way of dancing the tip, the typical "rice and beans" and the sound of the drums that have flooded the beaches and Atlantic coasts of Central America, in Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. An ethnic group that has preserved its traditions despite the strong trans-acculturation by the passing years. Her dances, songs and cuisine remains intact. Many Garifuna prefer to be called "Garinagu," the African name for the Garifuna.
Garifuna culture is a hybrid of traditions Arawak, African, and European. His story begins before the year 1635 on the island of St. Vincent in the eastern Caribbean. St. Vincent was inhabited by a tribe of Arawak Indians. The Kalipuna tribe from mainland South America invaded St. Vincent and the conquered. The Arawak men were killed and the soldiers took wives Kalipuna the Arawak women. The Islanders were the result of the union of these two tribes. The word "Garifuna probably descended from" Kalipuna.
In 1635 two English ships carrying Nigerian slaves shipwrecked on the island of San Vicente. At first, the English, Nigerians and Kalipuna faced, but with the passage of years learning to live together and performed marriages, giving birth to the Black Caribs.
few years later, San Vicente was taken by the British and the Caribs tried to establish independent control of the island. The French supported the Caribs and there were battles between the Caribs and the British. In 1796 the Caribs and the French surrendered to the British, which would be confronted with a problem. And is that the Caribs were free men with black skin and St. Vincent was populated by slaves of Europeans. To avoid conflicts, the British decided to deport the Caribs Balliceaux shipped to where half of them died of yellow fever.
In 1797 the surviving Caribs were shipped to Roatan Island off the coast of Honduras. Along the way, the English captured one of the British ships was taken to Trujillo where the Caribs were released and settled there.
Gradually, the Caribs spread up and down the coast of Belize. During the twentieth century, some Caribs served on U.S. merchant vessels and British during World War II and traveled the world. As a result of these trips, there are now small Garifuna community in Los Angeles, New Orleans and New York.
Garifuna culture is impressive, with great emphasis on music, dance and history. They have their own religion, which consists of a mixture Catholicism, African and Indian beliefs. The Garifuna lifestyle of their ancestors also from Native Americans. This legacy is evident in their cultivation, preparation of cassava, his passion for fishing and the sea, how they divide the work, their wakes, the use of maracas in dance festivals, and his faith in the "buyei "as a healer or counselor. The Garifuna language belongs to the Arawak family, although they have borrowed words from West African Bantu, English, Miskito, English, and French.
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