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PALACIO, Joseph. How did The Garifuna become an indigenous people? - reconstructing the cultural persona of an African-native American people in Central America. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2007, vol.2, n.4, pp.401-428. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2007.4.226.

The title of this presentation draws attention to the relatively recent origins of the ‘indigenous’ nomenclature to the persona of indigenous peoples in the New World. The Garifuna – an indigenous people formed from the blending of Native American, African, and European bio-cultural traits – are an appropriate topic for the study of the formation and retention of cultural identity within the Caribbean Basin. This presentation starts with the formation of their cultural matrix over time and space within a context, where conventional wisdom held that all native peoples had been exterminated. It continues with the Garifuna creating opportunities for the consolidation of their identity in the Eastern Caribbean during the latter of half of the nineteenth century, within decades of armed conflict imposed on them by the British. It ends by the author citing examples from his own involvement in academic and popular activism within the indigenous people movement in his home country Belize since the early 1970s.

Palabras llave : Garifuna; indigenous; identity.

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