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Garifuna
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Ga·ri·fu·na  (gär-fn)
n. pl. Garifuna or Garifu·nas
A member of a people of mixed Carib and African ancestry living along the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua. The Garifuna were deported to the area in the late 18th century after their defeat by the British on the island of St. Vincent, where shipwrecked and escaped African slaves had intermarried with the indigenous Carib population beginning in the early 17th century.

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


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There were a number of Black tribes including Washitaw Naton, the Black Californian, the Yamassee of Georgia, the Caracole, Guanini, and Black Caribs of South America dwelling from South America to the Mississippi Valley, the Eastern United States, California and Florida, came to Americas before Columbus and mingled with the present South and North American population and passed the beneficial genetic traits.
There were a number of Black tribes including Washitaw Naton, the Black Californian, the Yamassee of Georgia, the Caracole, Guanini, and Black Caribs of South America dwelling from South America to the Mississippi Valley, the Eastern United States, California and Florida, came to Americas before Columbus and mingled with the present South and North American population and passed the beneficial genetic traits.
The Black Caribs or Garifunas of the Caribbean Islands and Central America also fought with the English and Spanish from the late 1500s up to 1797, when the British sued for peace.
 
 
 
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