Garifuna_Americans
Garifuna Americans
Americans descended from West African, Central African, Island Carib, and Arawak people
Garifuna Americans or Black Carib Americans are Americans who are descendants of free African people and Indigenous people of the Americas that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Garifuna Americans whose ancestors were exiled from the Island trace their roots to the Central American countries of Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua, while those whose ancestors remained in the island trace their roots to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The term refers to someone with full or partial Garifuna heritage who was born in the United States.[2] They trace their ancestry to the Garifuna, who were descendants of Arawak, Kalinago (Island Carib), and Afro-Caribbean people living in Saint Vincent.[3]