• The Garifuna people (/ˌɡɑːriːˈfuːnə/ GAR-ee-FOO-nə or Spanish pronunciation: [ɡa'ɾifuna]; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are a people of mixed free African...
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  • Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It...
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  • Look up Garifuna or garifuna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Garifuna are an ethnic group of the Americas comprising descendants of Island Carib...
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  • Garifuna music is an ethnic music and dance with African, Arawak, and Kalinago elements, originating with the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people from Central...
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    The garifuna drum is a membranophone percussion instrument from the Garifuna culture in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. The garifuna drums play a very...
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    English-speaking West Indian (Antillean) and Garifuna origin. They are found in the Caribbean coast, in Livingston (a Garifuna settlement), Puerto Barrios and Santo...
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    Garifuna Americans or Black Carib Americans are Americans of African, Arawak, and Kalinago ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent...
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    continue to live in the Antilles, notably on the island of Dominica. The Garifuna, who share common ancestry with the Kalinago, also live principally in...
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    language, followed by the Mayan languages, German dialects, and Garifuna. Over half the population is multilingual due to the diverse linguistic...
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    other Caribbean islands, while the Garifuna people were originally from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Garifunas arrived in the late seventeen hundreds...
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    The music of Belize has a mix of Creole, Mestizo, Garìfuna, Mayan and European influences. After many centuries of Maya habitation, British colonizers...
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  • The National Garifuna Council (NGC) of Belize is a non-governmental organization that represents the Garifuna people of Belize. It was established in 1981...
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    Punta (category Garifuna music)
    Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music of the Garifuna originating prior to their exile to Roatan from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent...
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    song of the year. In 2011 Michel relocated to Belize to record with The Garifuna Collective, an Afro-Amerindian cultural group, on the album Black Birds...
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  • Dugu ceremony (redirect from Garifuna dugu)
    it is also known as the 9 nights ceremony) practiced by the Garifuna people. The Garifuna is a small-to-medium-sized Central American ethnic group that...
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    Coast Creole, the Garifunas descendants of Zambos (Caribs, Arawaks, and shipwrecked maroons) expelled from St. Vincent who speak Garifuna, the Rama Cay zambos...
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  • ISBN 978-0470887707. Garifuna Heritage Foundation Garífuna life in Belize from the BBC News What about Garifuna Settlement Day? on mybelize.net Garifunas Garifuna Settlement...
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    indigenous-African mixed groups have developed: the Miskito and the Garifuna. The Garifuna originated from the combination of Africans who were shipwrecked...
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    pottery. The Garífuna of Honduras come from the Lesser Antilles and more specifically from the island of San Vicente. From this place, the Garífunas were deported...
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  • Garifuna in Peril is a low-budget independent fiction docufiction feature film directed, written, and produced by Alí Allié and Rubén Reyes. The film depicts...
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  • Garifuna is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae. The only known species is reported from Belize and Panama. In the original description, under...
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    the Second Carib War. The British then deported the Garifuna to Roatán. The majority of the Garifuna migrated to Trujillo on mainland Honduras, but a portion...
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    the descendants of the West Indian islands. Another large group are the Garífuna, descendants of an Afro-Carib population which revolted against British...
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    Dangriga (category Garifuna communities)
    Town. Since the early 1980s Garífuna culture has undergone a revival, as part of which the town's name of Dangriga, a Garífuna word meaning "standing waters"...
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    the population is Xinca (mesoamerican), and 0.1% of the population is Garifuna (African/Carib mix). "However, indigenous rights activists put the indigenous...
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    and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast. According to the Language Law of 2003, the languages of Mayas, Xincas, and Garifunas are...
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  • Garifuna people, Palacio utilizes grooves and melodies that are deeply rooted in Garifuna traditions. Backed by a multigenerational group of Garifuna...
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    peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos. Maroon, which can have a more general sense of being...
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    peace between the British and the Garifuna led to the Second Carib War, which lasted from 1795 to 1797. The Garifuna were led by paramount chief Joseph...
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  • Umalali: The Garifuna Women's Project is musical collection of stories, organized and produced by Ivan Duran. The album is built upon the voices of local...
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