Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people of Carib, Arawak, and African ancestry living along the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua. The Garifuna were deported to the area in the late 1700s after their defeat by the British on the island of St. Vincent, where shipwrecked and escaped African slaves had intermarried with the indigenous population beginning in the early 1600s.
- noun The Arawakan language spoken by the Garifuna.
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- proper noun An
ethnic group in theCaribbean area, descended from a mix ofAmerindian andAfrican people, with many in Central America and the United States. - proper noun The
language of the Garífuna people.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vincent in 1763, the "Black Caribs," as the Brits called the Garifuna, resisted alongside
Chicago Reader 2010
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These groups, called the Garifuna, settled in local communities in Honduras and Guatemala and even today the Carribean-Rastafarian culture is still intact.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Palacio's release and the CD by Garifuna women are equally great.
Jesse Kornbluth: Father's Day Music: 10 CDs No One Else Would Think To Give Him 2010
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Meanwhile the White House and the media remain silent about the massacres of Indigenous peoples in Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and the violent repression in Chile and Ecuador, or the violence promoted by the coup regime of Honduras where death squads trained in the U.S. are killing the opposition including Garifuna, Miskito and other Indigenous groups.
Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations 2010
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It's the soul of the Garifuna women of Belize, and it moves the heart as well as the feet.
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So profound was the experience one of the students, Matt P. stated, Being in Belize for a little over a week has made me get a real feel of the Garifuna culture.
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Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, Mayan Elder and President of the National Council of Elders Mayas, Xinca and Garifuna of Guatemala, spoke of the Mayan prophecies and the approach of the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.
Elders Step Up: Historic International Meeting of Indigenous Spiritual Elders 2009
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Access granted for a one-on one with Garifuna extraordinaire, Benny Negro:
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In spite of this, the Hospital staff have vowed to stay and continue their work, serving the poor in the Garifuna indigenous region of Ionia and surrounding area.
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Languages: Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2% (2000 census)
Belize 2009
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