The Garifuna people have resisted for more than 300 years in a prolonged struggle to conserve their cultural system.
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Carib Indians, originally from the region of the mouth of Venezuela’s Orinoco River, had already settled on the islands of Saint Vincent. With the arrival of Africans who had been enslaved by the French, a genetic and cultural mixture ensued. Their Afro-Indigenous offspring were called Garinagus or Black Caribs.
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