Garifuna

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Ga·ri·fu·na

(gä′rē-fo͞o′nə)

n. pl. Garifuna or Garifu·nas

1. 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.

2. The Arawakan language spoken by the Garifuna.

[American Spanish Garífuna, from Proto-Carib *karipona, Carib.]

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Named after the Garifuna people who live along the coastline of Honduras.

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These arguments adopt international indigenous rights discourse which tend to essentialize women as bearers of culture and responsible for the survival of the Garifuna people. They also adopt international development discourse which pits development (read: modernity) against a static indigenous community (read: tradition).

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The man with a passion for the people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves addresses the importance of the CSME and its integration into the Community of Nations

org and Garifunalink.com, and learned about the Garifuna American Heritage Foundation, dedicated to preserving the uniqueness of the culture, history, language, music, arts, crafts, foods and values of the Garifuna people. I was captivated and anxious to learn more.