Garifuna woman here 🙋🏽♀️. We are originally from the island of St. Vincent. I’m sick of this shipwreck myth narrative that is used to illustrate the African part of our culture. How can an entire ethnic group be created from one isolated incident… the formation of our culture was a gradual process. There were already Africans in the Caribbean before the mid 1600’s. The slave trade just increased the amount of African presence. And way before African presence the indigenous people of the Caribbean were already settled. Without our Caribbean ancestors there would be no Garifuna. The language ( also called Garifuna) is mostly Arawak because the indigenous people were the majority which is why the Caribbean influence is so strong. Also, after being exiled by the British, we arrived to what is Roatan, Honduras today. The largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras. We then established communities on the mainland of Honduras such as the one showed in this documentary. However we also went to Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua which all are still homes to Garifuna communities today. The Garifuna Story is a triumphant part of black history. I would love to see the narrative of our resilience and present day evolution talked about more. There are many Garifuna communities with running water, light, schools, politicians, Garifuna owned resorts, businesses, and a huge movement of Garifuna preservation efforts in the United States.
Thankyou so much for your real insight true knowledge of what really happened much love ❤️ and respect from aye Māori from New Zealand 🇳🇿 the first settlers of our country.
Well,the boxer Mayweather had been denying his ancestors were never brought to usa!!that they had always been here!@ It's a new trend, worldwide, humans like mythology!! But,dna testing is there for the truth
Proud Garifuna ⬛⚪🟨 here! From Los Angeles, CA and Dangriga, Belize 🇧🇿. Big up to my fellow Garifuna communities from Honduras 🇭🇳, Belize 🇧🇿 and Guatemala 🇬🇹.
In exile apart from the Los Angeles Garifuna comminty ;there are Garifuna communities in Florida USA: Miami,Broward county, Orlando,Tampa,Port St.Lucie .In Texas :Houston,in New York and ATlanta;among others. Today the largest Garifuna community in the USA is in the state of Florida;due to proximity to Belize and teh rest of Central America .
@@redmango379calm down Africa is homeland of human beings where everything started Africa is the mother land even white Caucasian came from us ,Chinese Indians we claim all humanity
@redmango379 why not? Personally, I do see in them my people too. Heck, I see in native Americans my people too because they were oppressed. All formerly oppressed race are my people.
Thanks for the documentary. As an African from Liberia, West Africa, I was brought to tears as I watched my African brothers and sisters in that part of the world far away from the African continent. Literally, we have the same climate. therefore, we grow the food like cassava. It is my wish to take a visit to that region on one of these days.
Lots of indigenous indians were taken from North America to Liberia and the Caribbean. The African slave narrative is a lie. STRAIGHT HIJACK. Look at the well known diagrams of the "slave " ships. They would never function. It's a mind f*ck for the dark skinned race. UBTV 432 the drop radio Kurimeo Ahau 9Spiral Natural By Law ALL here on YT with the TRUTH. "Most High over everything " Take care ❤
I am a Ghanaian watching you from Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada. I get goosebumps watching this video as I recognize much much similarities between my West African people and Garifuna. The ties that bind are very strong and alive. The processing of the cassava is identical to the same process in making gari or akyeke (atseke) in Ghana and the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire).
As someone with Afro-Indo-Puerto Rican roots, I noticed that the ingredients of the pasteles masa (dough) is the same as fufu (a food made in west Africa). It's interesting all that was not lost. Also, (fun fact) the banjo is an African instrument brought by West Africans during the slave trade. They must have saved seeds on their person to bring in on their 6 month journey under duress to the Americas and the Caribbean
The garifuna people were a formidable force. That is why the British exiled them to Honduras from st vincent. My grandmother was almost 6 foot tall, and didn't stand no mess from anyone. She was smart, industrious, hard working and strong.
As time goes on and I get older, sometimes I feel like these people or this way of life is truly living life. Just being a part of a community is absolutely amazing
Hello Garifuna Cousins, One of your Nigerian Cousins here! You all are just as amazing as the rest of us out here on the continent and all over the world!🎉🎉❤😊. 2. The session where you guys were sharing the catch among the Seven (7) fishermen who participated in the expedition was very moving! The practice resonated with home. Wow!❤ 3. We remain connected forever. Hurrah to my Garifuna and other Diaspora cousins!🎉🎉🎉🎉 Lots of love from Nigeria!
Yes most will have Nigerian blood. One major Nigerian was exiled to St Vincent and the Grenadines. His name is King Jaja of Opobo. The Caucasian exiled him because he rose from slavery to be a major palm oil seller and they wanted to eliminate the competition.
This video made me nostalgic for being away from my people, genuine people by nature, a living culture, living life according to nature. God continue to bless the Garifuna people.
Ernestino, y'all are good looking people. i wish some of you would adopt some of our continental african first names or at least ad those as middle names , seeing that i have one myself and you can see in the comments plenty of people with their own african first names. full circle moments are important. video en Limón, Colón is relatable.
I met the Garifuna in 2011 on my trip to Belize. Beautiful people. What I couldn't understand was that they are the only "black" people in the Americas who know their language as a whole, but they are letting their language die off! Please don't let the Garifuna language die off.
It’s not dying off as it’s an Amerindian language original from South America even if the garífuna language die there will still be many sub languages of the same language in South America.
@ that’s true but ,I’m pretty sure the language will never go extinct not like the Lenca language which did went extinct, even if the language did went extinct there sister languages still exist in the tribes of South America.
Thanks to all the jobs done by this amazing team ❤ watching from 🇦🇴 South West Africa 🫵🏾 with lots of love to All Garifuna people and all blacks around the Caribbean and South America ❤
Beautiful & hardworking people❤. Your brethren the EWES are spread across West Africa.From Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Togo Benin & Nigeria.We have the love of farming of cassava (Gari,atiéké,eba) and fishing in common. I wish you guys out there a safe and prosperous 2025. Cheers.
The museum in Belize City has amazing detail of the Garifuna history. Belize was former British Honduras. Any escaping slaves from the mahogany logging work camps or sugar fields were granted freedom in neighboring Spanish colonies of Guatemala and Honduras. These escapees were almost certainly the founding populations of the Garifuna. A linguistic assessment of today's Garifuna Creole shows heavy correlation with West African languages, especially Igbo, Ashanti, and Hausa. Very fascinating.
More power to you Garifuna people and I am so proud of your resilience and the love of your origin and that's why you have capped your African traditions all this centuries 👏 👏 👏
When you return back home, there is a small restaurant in Entebbe which prepare fish in a very unique way. Every time I visit UG, I end up enjoying that fish
There are Garifunas in Belize,the Bay Islands of Honduras : Roatan,Utila and Guanaja ; the Honduran Atlantic Coast and in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast;also many live in Florida,Texas,California ,Atlanta,Georgia and New York in the USA.;and in Canada .
My mother and I met some Garifuna people in Livingston Guatemala while we were vacationing in Guatemala. A Garifuna gentlemen gave us a jungle tour. We were able to see the seven pools of water that was on a local river. during the tour we were able to eat fresh cocoa bread made by a local Garifullina family.❤
@@NnekaLocs drop that lie ! Yes they were Africans enslaved by the spanish in st vincent those then lost st vincent to the other british enslaver and colonizer who took over the slave colony of st vincent. We are still proud Africans . You must not make up. Story about not being enslaved by these evil europeans .yes blacks were enslaved by spanish first in st vincent hence the spanish names of Africans or Garifunas vinitians and belizians .know your honest history .
I am South Sudanese🇸🇸, living in the West, I just got off work and sitting in the car watching video, which reminded me of how my parents lived when I was younger. I miss our way of life, I couldn’t never trade for any amount of money 🙏
@@synanombrown2772 so we’re not going to share the planet as humans? I know exactly the type of people you’re from and it’s why they’re suffering from depression & other mental illnesses. Most of them don’t have children while they have resources to provide for them, but they envy those who have families and work hard to support them. Most don’t have relationships with siblings and other extended family members, so they usually staying by themselves and have no one to interact with, which makes them very lonely. They don’t have any type of culture, such as music, great food that they can enjoy together. Also, they’re suffering superiority complex, they are superficially feel they are better than others, so they don’t socialize with others who are different from races and cultures. All of these factors isolates them and they become very bitter when they witness those with little fortune enjoying their life. Only natives can tell someone to go back, they’re usually the nicest. I expect you not to be a native to wherever you are living, so get out and make friends and listen to music. And also I am not going anywhere, this is my home now, there’s nothing anyone can do about it!
Garri is also what we call it in Igbo language in Nigeria. Is a big part of FUFU dish. It’s amazing how relatable those people are to many west African villagers, take out the the title, I could have sworn the documentary was done in some Nigerian village. We have a saying “ It takes a whole village to raise a child “ and that’s what they’re literally practicing. God bless them.
My grandmother is from Honduras, well I'm half Garifuna from my dad's side. Ancestors have been apart of my life throughout and at time I would surprise my dad side of the family on how I carry myself as a Garifuna women❤❤❤❤
Being a black man I'm happy to know that there is real black (not so called mixed or half these and that) people in Latin America. Big up my blacks, keep your heads up 💪🏾
If your reading this, this video only skims the surface. As it pertains to my Garifuna culture and heritage. Despite a few mistakes in this narrative ( European dances?!?) there is a wealth of information out there about us. Aside from that, stay blessed and Seremein, thats "thank you" in Garifuna. P.S. Only a Garifuna knowledgeable of Garifuna-OURstory can tell our story.
Here in America. I see my ppl in the faces of these ppl. I love the traditional solitude...fact that land belongs to the ppl... Nothing wrong with preserving traditions..
Interesting! It reminds me of a real village life in Ghana. It's amazing how much we have in common in spite of the distance. The land seems fertile and I can imagine growing a variety of vegetables.
Much love from 🇰🇪 Kenya,i am happy to see the remnants of God's people in Honduras, very soon our God will call us in one voice and we will come out of the Roman slavery, the beast is crushing.we will sing the songs of joy🎉
Sorry to say Hun but you cannot tell .. the mixture to become a Garifuna= is from run away enslaved, those that was in the ship wreck from that swam the Bequia channel, and the yellow Caribs .
How much are they paying some of you in the comments to misinform people about their indigenous heritage. The awakening is here all lies will be exposed. The Garifuna people are indigenous to that land they are not descended from slaves. They were driven off their own land in the Americas
@PHlophe So if I don't have an African name, does that mean I'm not African? If a European doesn't have a European name, does that mean he's not European? Does an Asian who doesn't have an Asian name mean he's not Asian? see? Name is a matter of taste, it's not because I'm African, Asian, European, American. On all continents there are good and ugly names, and especially for me who already know that a name is a nature, I cannot accept any name, be it African, Asian, European, American, but I have an African name that I identify with and I love. it because it has a good meaning in my African tradition.
Pedro, but just how many europeans do you know of that have a full set of african names like i do . i visited AO i was surprised to see plenty of Eduarda Marcela Da conceicao Pires it is bizarre. a whole nation with those names. Not even one traditional name.
@@PHlophe I know several of them, I work with them, many of them were born in Angola and in South Africa their names are in Afrikaans, Xosa, Zulu, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Humbundu. And among other native languages of southern Africa. see? They also speak these languages and were born in Africa and are Africans. I think you are a little prejudiced. What makes you African, European, Asian, American is not your name, it is in your DNA. Anyone from any continent and country can choose a name and language to call. I know several Europeans with African names, because they simply like the meaning of the names.
I am an African from Uganda, East Africa. I love stories of our descendants in the Carribean. I imagine a lot ofwhatcould have happened back then during slavery .
Because they were brainwashed to believe they come from Africa. So they studied African Cultures! *The same is true for Us In The U.S.!* We were called COLORED, AND NEGRO Only Until The 60's. *AFRICANS WOULD HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS AFRICANS FROM THE START!* Why were they called names other than African before now?
They are not descendants of East Africans but rather West and coastal Central Africans. Dont stress yourself for any connection. Slave descendants from East Africa are in the middle east and south asia.
As a Ghanaian, I have no doubt these are my people, no need to look further, no DNA test, the fishermen behaves just like the ones in Cape Coast and Takoradi, their traditions, facial features and more.
What a beautiful civilized way of living. This was our culture before the interruption of colonialism and slavery. Our culture and family structure was beautiful, how we worked together, making community, real enlightenment ❤
2 century’s ago? That’s recent … but my two cents (hunch) is that Africans were sailing here 200 years earlier than Christopher Columbus … the Mali Empire sent 2,000 ships to the West per an Egyptian documented account.
I love what the mamma said we are descendants from enslaved people but th truth is we were never slaves and that’s in our blood! I love how this community works together and live off the land giving thanks to God
It's not a coincidence, Gari is the processed end product of cassava, made just following the same process like the lady in this documentary. Garifuna, which they said meant Cassava eaters, really meant 'Garifunwa' in Yoruba. The reference to 'Gari' in the name Garifuna puts them not just coming from African but directly from the Yoruba tribe (even specifically from Ogun state) in Nigeria.
Garri is Igbo language of South East Nigeria, I have lived with a Gurifuna and he speaks some Igbo lingua France mixed with creole and what I saw in these villages is same architecture and we were making gari the very same way I saw that young lady but now they can buy the Lister grinder we call ngine gari or engine garri because the hands grating became risky to your fingers especially if you have to produce commercial quantity gari. Igbo of Nigeria formed about 70 percent of slaves to the americas including West Indies.
My mother in Jamaica make home made bammy with this same procedure from the cassava. The very same way and that bammy is more tastier than the commercial bammy.
13:44 hold up 🤦🏾♂️ Did he just lie and say “ european dances “ ❌ if they (they West African who planned rebelled on the slave ships killing all slave traders) intermarried with the Awarak Indians of St.Vincent who were also fighting for independence ; WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DANCE LIKE Europeans especially after a 30yrs war !!!
I,m garifuna from honduras ,our stories have been told wrong we keep repeating this narrative about slave ships and mixing the slaves ship theory have been proven to have never happen sir William young was the one that invented this slave ship narrative to justified taking there lands an to this day they still repeating this lie ,and as far as the mixing not all of the African mixed with the Arawak ,and your right either he had a bad edit by saying European dance because sate hated the europeans ,just read his letter that he wrote for his troops
my parents come from St. Vincent , i was born in the UK, but even i left the UK and returned to the birth place of my parents almost 20 yrs ago . The current population of St. Vincent are the descendants of Black Europeans , Jacobites from the British Isles, England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland that were deported to the Caribbean and North American plantations as religious and political prisoners of war forced into bonded servitude . The True inhabitants of St. Vincent were also deported by the British to Central America . Both populations have been permanently displaced by the British Crown but in the case of the Garifuna people they have retain their heritage , whereas the British bonded black slaves had their identities stripped from them and over time they were mis educated to believe they came from Africa on slave ships when in fact it was the Dutch West Indies company ships that brought their ancestors to the islands. The British are still hiding our true identity so we dont claim our heritage back from them .
This is some cinderalla narrative you are perpetuating. Facts are that Africans from the Caribbean in particular st Vincent are predominantly from the Ashanti, ewes from Ghana
@richardre thank you reject that Cinderella narrative,some of our people believe in all sorts of fairytale. It makes them appear delusional,especially the so-called educated ones.
People of the book, decendants of true bibilical Israelites. The choosen. Our/your roots goes back to Africa AKA Al-Keburun. I see alot of the in US we people of East Africa. Farming, carrying load on their back, thatched roof houses(sign of David) etc love you my people
I am a Vincentian national living in the USA. My grandmother was garifuna, who mated with a Scottish. Hence the reason we are all light skin. My grandmother was proud of her heritage.
You can even see their culture in New Orleans, on my mom side, I am Indian, it’s my Cuban dad’s side that has black. And both sides have Spanish. I think Garifunas are cool, love their music and dance
In Papua New Guinea North of Australia a Ghanaian priest The late Fr. Joseph Sakite taught us how to make what he termed as Fufu Gari out of cassava. The late priest gave us this gift. He is buried in our country.
Garifuna woman here 🙋🏽♀️. We are originally from the island of St. Vincent. I’m sick of this shipwreck myth narrative that is used to illustrate the African part of our culture. How can an entire ethnic group be created from one isolated incident… the formation of our culture was a gradual process. There were already Africans in the Caribbean before the mid 1600’s. The slave trade just increased the amount of African presence. And way before African presence the indigenous people of the Caribbean were already settled. Without our Caribbean ancestors there would be no Garifuna. The language ( also called Garifuna) is mostly Arawak because the indigenous people were the majority which is why the Caribbean influence is so strong. Also, after being exiled by the British, we arrived to what is Roatan, Honduras today. The largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras. We then established communities on the mainland of Honduras such as the one showed in this documentary. However we also went to Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua which all are still homes to Garifuna communities today. The Garifuna Story is a triumphant part of black history. I would love to see the narrative of our resilience and present day evolution talked about more. There are many Garifuna communities with running water, light, schools, politicians, Garifuna owned resorts, businesses, and a huge movement of Garifuna preservation efforts in the United States.
❤❤❤ your story is Amazing don't stop telling ❤❤
Thank! You!!
Thankyou so much for your real insight true knowledge of what really happened much love ❤️ and respect from aye Māori from New Zealand 🇳🇿 the first settlers of our country.
ABORIGINAL(!) they just want to steal your land via psychological warfare
Well,the boxer Mayweather had been denying his ancestors were never brought to usa!!that they had always been here!@
It's a new trend, worldwide, humans like mythology!!
But,dna testing is there for the truth
Proud Garifuna ⬛⚪🟨 here! From Los Angeles, CA and Dangriga, Belize 🇧🇿. Big up to my fellow Garifuna communities from Honduras 🇭🇳, Belize 🇧🇿 and Guatemala 🇬🇹.
Seremein sis, from Brooklyn with love.
In exile apart from the Los Angeles Garifuna comminty ;there are Garifuna communities in Florida USA: Miami,Broward county, Orlando,Tampa,Port St.Lucie .In Texas :Houston,in New York and ATlanta;among others. Today the largest Garifuna community in the USA is in the state of Florida;due to proximity to Belize and teh rest of Central America .
garifuna nuguya sis ! proud garifuna from L.A too
As a Ghanaian 🇬🇭 in Ghana, am just seeing my people, GARI is a Cassava Flaks , thanks for this documentary
Exactly! Apart from gari, you can also get Atseke from the same process.
Your peoples??? Do U own those peoples?
Stop claiming peoples...
Why don't u claim aborigines in Australia or the Dravidians in India??
@@redmango379calm down Africa is homeland of human beings where everything started Africa is the mother land even white Caucasian came from us ,Chinese Indians we claim all humanity
@redmango379 why not? Personally, I do see in them my people too. Heck, I see in native Americans my people too because they were oppressed. All formerly oppressed race are my people.
@@redmango379what a strange comment. You sound like you need a coffee
We are the salt of the Earth! Love from South Africa, Kwa Zulu. . .
Thanks for the documentary. As an African from Liberia, West Africa, I was brought to tears as I watched my African brothers and sisters in that part of the world far away from the African continent. Literally, we have the same climate. therefore, we grow the food like cassava.
It is my wish to take a visit to that region on one of these days.
You grow the same foods because you had the same colonisers.
Lots of indigenous indians were taken from North America to Liberia and the Caribbean. The African slave narrative is a lie.
STRAIGHT HIJACK.
Look at the well known diagrams of the "slave " ships. They would never function.
It's a mind f*ck for the dark skinned race.
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My broda, visiting that region is not like visiting Ghana your neighbor or Guinea. This is thousands of miles away from Monrovia
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@@richardredmond1480 that’s right they not like Us! We American Indians not slaves of Africa or Africas unwanted!!
I am a Ghanaian watching you from Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada. I get goosebumps watching this video as I recognize much much similarities between my West African people and Garifuna. The ties that bind are very strong and alive. The processing of the cassava is identical to the same process in making gari or akyeke (atseke) in Ghana and the Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire).
Hope you know Cassava originated from Brazil and repatriated slaves brought it to Africa also the process of making it to Garri.
As someone with Afro-Indo-Puerto Rican roots, I noticed that the ingredients of the pasteles masa (dough) is the same as fufu (a food made in west Africa). It's interesting all that was not lost. Also, (fun fact) the banjo is an African instrument brought by West Africans during the slave trade. They must have saved seeds on their person to bring in on their 6 month journey under duress to the Americas and the Caribbean
Watching you from Malawi. You are very much part of me. Omg are truly my African people . May the Almighty God bless you richly. Thanks.
My moms nurse was from Malawi here in Texas. He is now a friend of mine
The garifuna people were a formidable force. That is why the British exiled them to Honduras from st vincent. My grandmother was almost 6 foot tall, and didn't stand no mess from anyone. She was smart, industrious, hard working and strong.
Thanks for this documentary.
I'm watching from Tanzania 🇹🇿,East Africa.
Same To me From Tanzania
Love from 🇸🇴
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Pamoja I am also watching from Tanzania 🇹🇿
As time goes on and I get older, sometimes I feel like these people or this way of life is truly living life. Just being a part of a community is absolutely amazing
That's just wisdom that comes with age :)
Hello Garifuna Cousins,
One of your Nigerian Cousins here!
You all are just as amazing as the rest of us out here on the continent
and all over the world!🎉🎉❤😊.
2. The session where you guys were sharing the catch among the Seven (7) fishermen who participated in the expedition was very moving! The practice resonated with home. Wow!❤
3. We remain connected forever.
Hurrah to my Garifuna and other Diaspora cousins!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Lots of love from Nigeria!
Blessed Love
Yes most will have Nigerian blood. One major Nigerian was exiled to St Vincent and the Grenadines. His name is King Jaja of Opobo. The Caucasian exiled him because he rose from slavery to be a major palm oil seller and they wanted to eliminate the competition.
This video made me nostalgic for being away from my people, genuine people by nature, a living culture, living life according to nature. God continue to bless the Garifuna people.
Ernestino, y'all are good looking people. i wish some of you would adopt some of our continental african first names or at least ad those as middle names , seeing that i have one myself and you can see in the comments plenty of people with their own african first names. full circle moments are important. video en Limón, Colón is relatable.
We love our Afro Brothers and sisters living in Honduras. Thank you all for protecting our culture. May Jah bless and protect u all❤💛💚
@AfroGlobalNetwork
These people aren’t Afro. Nobody is Afro unless they are of Afro origin . These are indigenous blacks
Love from Ghana, kwabena Boateng jacoboba
😎 💜 👉✅ 🚀 💎🔥 Peace
Oh how I love my African people.
"No one here owns the land. The community manages all the land" I love that! :)
I met the Garifuna in 2011 on my trip to Belize. Beautiful people. What I couldn't understand was that they are the only "black" people in the Americas who know their language as a whole, but they are letting their language die off! Please don't let the Garifuna language die off.
It’s not dying off as it’s an Amerindian language original from South America even if the garífuna language die there will still be many sub languages of the same language in South America.
@williammoreno-pp1og the Garifuna are Arawak people. They were able to keep their language when most all Indigenous black people werent.
Nope, saw a documentary series on a group of Maroons in Suriname who spoke a language closely related to Akan.
There is a concerted effort by various Garinagu. In keeping our language alive. Nonetheless, many Garífuna still speak Garífuna.
@ that’s true but ,I’m pretty sure the language will never go extinct not like the Lenca language which did went extinct, even if the language did went extinct there sister languages still exist in the tribes of South America.
Thanks to all the jobs done by this amazing team ❤ watching from 🇦🇴 South West Africa 🫵🏾 with lots of love to All Garifuna people and all blacks around the Caribbean and South America ❤
❤ from St.Vincent
Beautiful & hardworking people❤.
Your brethren the EWES are spread across West Africa.From Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Togo Benin & Nigeria.We have the love of farming of cassava (Gari,atiéké,eba) and fishing in common.
I wish you guys out there a safe and prosperous 2025.
Cheers.
The museum in Belize City has amazing detail of the Garifuna history. Belize was former British Honduras. Any escaping slaves from the mahogany logging work camps or sugar fields were granted freedom in neighboring Spanish colonies of Guatemala and Honduras.
These escapees were almost certainly the founding populations of the Garifuna. A linguistic assessment of today's Garifuna Creole shows heavy correlation with West African languages, especially Igbo, Ashanti, and Hausa. Very fascinating.
Watching from South Africa 🇿🇦
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More power to you Garifuna people and I am so proud of your resilience and the love of your origin and that's why you have capped your African traditions all this centuries 👏 👏 👏
Interesting documentary. Keep up your cultural heritage. From Nairobi, Kenya
I love my people! Garifuna Wagia 🇧🇿🇭🇳🇬🇹🇳🇮🇻🇨
I am an Ugandan living in Los Angeles, I grew up in this kinds of environment. Even though just lakes, the fishing cassava growing is the same!
When you return back home, there is a small restaurant in Entebbe which prepare fish in a very unique way. Every time I visit UG, I end up enjoying that fish
Love and peace ✌🏾 from Africa
I’m a Garifuna man born and raised in St Vincent and the grenadines
What part of Saint Vincent are you from?
@ North Union
Salute my brother, Garífuna here hailing from Brooklyn, New York.
You indigenous to the land brother 🪶👏🏾💯. Don't let people tell you otherwise
saludos !! Im Garífuna from Guatemala!!
There are Garifunas in Belize,the Bay Islands of Honduras : Roatan,Utila and Guanaja ; the Honduran Atlantic Coast and in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast;also many live in Florida,Texas,California ,Atlanta,Georgia and New York in the USA.;and in Canada .
My mother and I met some Garifuna people in Livingston Guatemala while we were vacationing in Guatemala. A Garifuna gentlemen gave us a jungle tour. We were able to see the seven pools of water that was on a local river. during the tour we were able to eat fresh cocoa bread made by a local Garifullina family.❤
Casava came from St.Vicent .It was teh food of the Awarak;who brought it from South America.Casava is a staple food throughout the Caribbean .
The Garifuna were never enslaved. Their ancestors were exiled from Hairouna/St. Vincent
They are descendants of enslaved Africans! Get your facts right
Let me know Queen.
Exactly they indigenous to the land 👏🏾🔥🪶. We ain't falling for that whole Panny BS anymore
@@NnekaLocs drop that lie ! Yes they were Africans enslaved by the spanish in st vincent those then lost st vincent to the other british enslaver and colonizer who took over the slave colony of st vincent. We are still proud Africans . You must not make up. Story about not being enslaved by these evil europeans .yes blacks were enslaved by spanish first in st vincent hence the spanish names of Africans or Garifunas vinitians and belizians .know your honest history .
These people must be my brothers from Sierra leone west Africa
I am South Sudanese🇸🇸, living in the West, I just got off work and sitting in the car watching video, which reminded me of how my parents lived when I was younger. I miss our way of life, I couldn’t never trade for any amount of money 🙏
@@Annie-cai if he was that dedicated, he would still be in Sudan !
So go back
@@raymorris8447 who is instigating the wars in africa ?
@@raymorris8447 would you clarify your comment so that I respond it properly.
@@synanombrown2772 so we’re not going to share the planet as humans? I know exactly the type of people you’re from and it’s why they’re suffering from depression & other mental illnesses. Most of them don’t have children while they have resources to provide for them, but they envy those who have families and work hard to support them. Most don’t have relationships with siblings and other extended family members, so they usually staying by themselves and have no one to interact with, which makes them very lonely. They don’t have any type of culture, such as music, great food that they can enjoy together. Also, they’re suffering superiority complex, they are superficially feel they are better than others, so they don’t socialize with others who are different from races and cultures. All of these factors isolates them and they become very bitter when they witness those with little fortune enjoying their life. Only natives can tell someone to go back, they’re usually the nicest. I expect you not to be a native to wherever you are living, so get out and make friends and listen to music. And also I am not going anywhere, this is my home now, there’s nothing anyone can do about it!
Garri is also what we call it in Igbo language in Nigeria. Is a big part of FUFU dish.
It’s amazing how relatable those people are to many west African villagers, take out the the title, I could have sworn the documentary was done in some Nigerian village.
We have a saying “ It takes a whole village to raise a child “ and that’s what they’re literally practicing. God bless them.
I love the sharing spirit of these people
If we as all black people could be like this we would be in a better place and Africa would be a better continent with no greed or jealousy.
That applies not only to black people and Africa, but to all people from all over the world.
My grandmother is from Honduras, well I'm half Garifuna from my dad's side. Ancestors have been apart of my life throughout and at time I would surprise my dad side of the family on how I carry myself as a Garifuna women❤❤❤❤
At shanelashayah subscribed ❤
I salute you sis, I'm a Garífuna also Guatemala present 👍🏽
Being a black man I'm happy to know that there is real black (not so called mixed or half these and that) people in Latin America. Big up my blacks, keep your heads up 💪🏾
My brother agreed with you
They are mixed with the Indians who lived there when they ship wrecked, same as the rest of the Caribbean
The natives who lived there came from Africa. The tan natives you see today are the mixed people. @@learningearning8385
@@learningearning8385 mixed? Maybe 1% dna is mixed. They look pure African.
@learningearning8385
Real Indigenous people are black so..
If your reading this, this video only skims the surface. As it pertains to my Garifuna culture and heritage. Despite a few mistakes in this narrative ( European dances?!?) there is a wealth of information out there about us. Aside from that, stay blessed and Seremein, thats "thank you" in Garifuna.
P.S. Only a Garifuna knowledgeable of Garifuna-OURstory can tell our story.
Watching from Papua New Guinea.👍
I love my Honduras!!!❤❤
Here in America. I see my ppl in the faces of these ppl. I love the traditional solitude...fact that land belongs to the ppl... Nothing wrong with preserving traditions..
Watching from Michigan.
Interesting! It reminds me of a real village life in Ghana. It's amazing how much we have in common in spite of the distance. The land seems fertile and I can imagine growing a variety of vegetables.
Much love from 🇰🇪 Kenya,i am happy to see the remnants of God's people in Honduras, very soon our God will call us in one voice and we will come out of the Roman slavery, the beast is crushing.we will sing the songs of joy🎉
COUNTMEIN
Angola 🇦🇴. We love ou brothers and sisters from all over the globe 🌏.
Garifuna woman here! We were NEVER slaves.
Love you sister
Preach sister 🔥💯🙏🏾👏🏾
You saying it doesn't make it true my sister.
Sorry to say Hun but you cannot tell .. the mixture to become a Garifuna= is from run away enslaved, those that was in the ship wreck from that swam the Bequia channel, and the yellow Caribs .
How much are they paying some of you in the comments to misinform people about their indigenous heritage. The awakening is here all lies will be exposed. The Garifuna people are indigenous to that land they are not descended from slaves. They were driven off their own land in the Americas
WE ARE GARIFUNA FOR LIFE.
watching from hargeisa somaliland ❤🎉big respect to my Garifuna brother and sisters 🎉#BlackUnity #Africa
Qu’ils sont beaux 😻!
Sûrement les descendants des Éwé ( Ghana, Togo) dans cette contrée si loin de l’Afrique.
Nuff Respek from Caribbean island of Saint Vincent 🇻🇨✌🏿...much love to yall
My family is from St Vincent, now living in the UK. Thank you very much for this positive and respectful DOCUMENTARY of our people. Much appreciated.
InSierra Leone 🇸🇱,we. Make this type of pan cake,but we ate it with nut oil stew and bonga fish fried with the nut oil
I grew up with Hondurans and Dominicans and we are all very similar. We have African blood ❤❤❤
What a beautiful people and an awesome culture.…
Beautiful, keep your communities and culture, 🙏🏾.
Coming from st.maarten, love all my Caribbean people
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Watching from Angola 🇦🇴
Pedro, we need to do something about y'all. the fact that y'all don't have our traditional african names is super problematic
@PHlophe So if I don't have an African name, does that mean I'm not African? If a European doesn't have a European name, does that mean he's not European? Does an Asian who doesn't have an Asian name mean he's not Asian? see? Name is a matter of taste, it's not because I'm African, Asian, European, American. On all continents there are good and ugly names, and especially for me who already know that a name is a nature, I cannot accept any name, be it African, Asian, European, American, but I have an African name that I identify with and I love. it because it has a good meaning in my African tradition.
Pedro, but just how many europeans do you know of that have a full set of african names like i do .
i visited AO i was surprised to see plenty of Eduarda Marcela Da conceicao Pires it is bizarre. a whole nation with those names. Not even one traditional name.
@@PHlophe I know several of them, I work with them, many of them were born in Angola and in South Africa their names are in Afrikaans, Xosa, Zulu, Kikongo, Kimbundu, Humbundu. And among other native languages of southern Africa. see? They also speak these languages and were born in Africa and are Africans. I think you are a little prejudiced. What makes you African, European, Asian, American is not your name, it is in your DNA. Anyone from any continent and country can choose a name and language to call. I know several Europeans with African names, because they simply like the meaning of the names.
Always watching from philippines
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Pinoys are the Latinos from asia . the country's energy has enough african flavor in it.
Wonderful ❤️..so great to see this documentary. Thanks for sharing 👍
Wotching from kenya
I am an African from Uganda, East Africa. I love stories of our descendants in the Carribean. I imagine a lot ofwhatcould have happened back then during slavery .
Am East African but the dances of Garifuna are very similar to ours even cassava in east Africa is widely eaten by different tribes,
Ugandan to be precise! Aren’t u proud of your corrupt country and chaotic government
Because they were brainwashed to believe they come from Africa. So they studied African Cultures!
*The same is true for Us In The U.S.!*
We were called COLORED, AND NEGRO Only Until The 60's.
*AFRICANS WOULD HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS AFRICANS FROM THE START!*
Why were they called names other than African before now?
They are not descendants of East Africans but rather West and coastal Central Africans. Dont stress yourself for any connection. Slave descendants from East Africa are in the middle east and south asia.
@@Ed.-uc4ydLearn more about East African slaves trade in connection with the Transatlantic slave trade.
Watching from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
We love you all our brothers and sisters, mummies, daddies and children and the most important of all GREAT Great Ancestors-
De parte de tu prima nigeriana Les mando muchísimos saludos a la raza garífuna
As a Ghanaian, I have no doubt these are my people, no need to look further, no DNA test, the fishermen behaves just like the ones in Cape Coast and Takoradi, their traditions, facial features and more.
What a beautiful civilized way of living. This was our culture before the interruption of colonialism and slavery. Our culture and family structure was beautiful, how we worked together, making community, real enlightenment ❤
Thank you. I appreciate this program
🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳 watching from Honduras
Big up Garifuna people. watching from Brooklyn NY
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This was a great video very interesting learning about my culture.
Keep learning, this video only scratches the surface.
@ I will thank you. Please post some links if you know of any more also merry Christmas
2 century’s ago? That’s recent … but my two cents (hunch) is that Africans were sailing here 200 years earlier than Christopher Columbus … the Mali Empire sent 2,000 ships to the West per an Egyptian documented account.
True it's only that there was no documentary by then
Excelente documentário, assistindo daqui de Belém do Pará- Brazil!
What wonderful people,happy with what they have.everyone equal,no crazy,greedy,wealthy types.
They are living the way God wanted people to live.
Greetings from uganda 🇺🇬
They don’t know where Uganda is, gyawo obufere
@@richardredmond1480 who brought you here
@ fools like you
I love what the mamma said we are descendants from enslaved people but th truth is we were never slaves and that’s in our blood! I love how this community works together and live off the land giving thanks to God
Watching from Atlanta. Much love to our cousins 🩷
It's so funny Garifuna is deeply connected to cassava. Cassava flakes in Nigeria are known as Gari. What a coincidence.
It's not a coincidence, Gari is the processed end product of cassava, made just following the same process like the lady in this documentary. Garifuna, which they said meant Cassava eaters, really meant 'Garifunwa' in Yoruba. The reference to 'Gari' in the name Garifuna puts them not just coming from African but directly from the Yoruba tribe (even specifically from Ogun state) in Nigeria.
We are a proud group of Black people, trust me.
@@fromsurrey9538Each one, teach one.
Not only in Ngeria. In Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin, we eat Gari
Garri is Igbo language of South East Nigeria, I have lived with a Gurifuna and he speaks some Igbo lingua France mixed with creole and what I saw in these villages is same architecture and we were making gari the very same way I saw that young lady but now they can buy the Lister grinder we call ngine gari or engine garri because the hands grating became risky to your fingers especially if you have to produce commercial quantity gari. Igbo of Nigeria formed about 70 percent of slaves to the americas including West Indies.
Thanks for the wonderful story
Watching from Philippines
My mother in Jamaica make home made bammy with this same procedure from the cassava. The very same way and that bammy is more tastier than the commercial bammy.
Bammy & fish❤❤❤❤
Loved this! ❤😊
13:44 hold up 🤦🏾♂️ Did he just lie and say “ european dances “ ❌ if they (they West African who planned rebelled on the slave ships killing all slave traders) intermarried with the Awarak Indians of St.Vincent who were also fighting for independence ; WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO DANCE LIKE Europeans especially after a 30yrs war !!!
I,m garifuna from honduras ,our stories have been told wrong we keep repeating this narrative about slave ships and mixing the slaves ship theory have been proven to have never happen sir William young was the one that invented this slave ship narrative to justified taking there lands an to this day they still repeating this lie ,and as far as the mixing not all of the African mixed with the Arawak ,and your right either he had a bad edit by saying European dance because sate hated the europeans ,just read his letter that he wrote for his troops
White people always want to give white narratives which most times are historically false.
I was gagged too 😮
West Africans living rent free in your Tanzanian head...
@@TheBrucelee1973Keep hitting them with the truth.
Garifu here from Santa Rosa De Aguan!!✊🏾
Visited the western side of Honduras in 2014. Beautiful country.
That fish looks so clean and pure
Louisiana in here…💪🏾💪🏽
Salute!!
my parents come from St. Vincent , i was born in the UK, but even i left the UK and returned to the birth place of my parents almost 20 yrs ago . The current population of St. Vincent are the descendants of Black Europeans , Jacobites from the British Isles, England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland that were deported to the Caribbean and North American plantations as religious and political prisoners of war forced into bonded servitude . The True inhabitants of St. Vincent were also deported by the British to Central America . Both populations have been permanently displaced by the British Crown but in the case of the Garifuna people they have retain their heritage , whereas the British bonded black slaves had their identities stripped from them and over time they were mis educated to believe they came from Africa on slave ships when in fact it was the Dutch West Indies company ships that brought their ancestors to the islands. The British are still hiding our true identity so we dont claim our heritage back from them .
This is some cinderalla narrative you are perpetuating. Facts are that Africans from the Caribbean in particular st Vincent are predominantly from the Ashanti, ewes from Ghana
@getlooseradio Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing our true history! I'm Jamaican, so our history is the same.
@richardre thank you reject that Cinderella narrative,some of our people believe in all sorts of fairytale. It makes them appear delusional,especially the so-called educated ones.
People of the book, decendants of true bibilical Israelites. The choosen. Our/your roots goes back to Africa AKA Al-Keburun. I see alot of the in US we people of East Africa. Farming, carrying load on their back, thatched roof houses(sign of David) etc love you my people
I am a Vincentian national living in the USA. My grandmother was garifuna, who mated with a Scottish. Hence the reason we are all light skin. My grandmother was proud of her heritage.
No Brasil, onde a mandioca é nativa, essa panqueca é preparada de um modo muito parecido pelos indígenas. Aqui é chamada "beiju"
Garifuna learnt about it from the indigenous Kalinago people of St. Vincent who migrated from South America.
So funny, Jamaicans dance the May pole the same way, and love dominos too.
The journalist is genuinely participating. He is not faking anything.
Pape Niang, this is their Teranga
🤗🤗🤗😘like the story very much. No acting just living life!!!
What "European dances?" The Garifuna showed this 'reporter' no european dances! We must tell our own story not the oppressor!
All the colonizers do is tell lies
Yes, I caught that too no way
Facts!!!
You can even see their culture in New Orleans, on my mom side, I am Indian, it’s my Cuban dad’s side that has black. And both sides have Spanish. I think Garifunas are cool, love their music and dance
In Papua New Guinea North of Australia a Ghanaian priest The late Fr. Joseph Sakite taught us how to make what he termed as Fufu Gari out of cassava. The late priest gave us this gift. He is buried in our country.
Well said and we didn't come from no Africa we are indigenous to our land in the Pacific
I want to be Garifuna when I grow up. What a beautiful life
They have Garifunas in Belize too !!!
You cannot be a Garífuna, unless your from the Bloodline. But your welcomed to immerse yourself in our culture respectfully 😏
❤Garinagu❤
At indiesuperneoge I subscribed to your channel 🙏🏿
Fantastic thanks for uploading
Africanos en centro América.❤❤🎉🎉
St Vincent and the grenadines