(REPOST) VIDEO of Nicaragua Garifuna Settlement Day (2007)

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Orinoco, Nicaragua: Journalist Neyda Dixon offers a Spanish video report on Nicaragua Garifuna Settlement Day. While the report was uploaded on September 17th 2008, I figure that the actual Celebration took place the prior year, as Nicaragua Garifuna Settlement Day is November 19th.

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Nicaragua Garifuna Settlement Day commemorates the arrival of Garifuna people to the country of Nicaragua.

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I do not know that there is an official year that marks the arrival of The Garifuna People to Nicaragua where they migrated from neighboring country, Honduras, and of course, the mother land of St. Vincent Island.

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Historical speculation has the Garifuna arriving in Nicaragua in the 1880s. The initial settler credited with migrating to Nicaragua is Joseph Sambola from Sangrelaya, Honduras.

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The Garifuna People settled (founded?) the towns/villages of Orinoco, La Fe, Justo Point, San Vicente in the Pearl Lagoon basin of Nicaragua. Small numbers of Garifuna also live in Bluefields.

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There is a paper on Garifuna people in Nicaragua, by William V. Davidson. It was initially published in 1980 and is called, The Garifuna of Pearl Lagoon: Ethnohistory of an Afro-American Enclave in Nicaragua and is very informative.

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