Cheryl L. Noralez is an activist and promoter of the Garifuna culture. She is also well-known for her passionate writings about her culture. She conceived the idea of GAHFU when she realized that there was a need in the community for a non-profit organization that could bring together the Garifuna community to better represent the people and the culture. Cheryl's dream has always been to open a Garifuna Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. She believes that once Garinagu have their own Cultural Center, more can be accomplished like for example: have a Dabuyaba where Garinagu can practice their spirituality, it can be used as a school and/or learning center and it could serve as a museum. www.garifunaheritagefoundation.org
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Cheryl L. Noralez is an activist and promoter of the Garifuna culture. She is also well-known for her passionate writings about her culture. She conceived the idea of GAHFU when she realized that there was a need in the community for a non-profit organization that could bring together the Garifuna community to better represent the people and the culture. Cheryl's dream has always been to open a Garifuna Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California. She believes that once Garinagu have their own Cultural Center, more can be accomplished like for example: have a Dabuyaba where Garinagu can practice their spirituality, it can be used as a school and/or learning center and it could serve as a museum. www.garifunaheritagefoundation.org
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Mabuiga! As you may know, every ten years the United States conducts a nationwide census which is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of its population.
You will be receiving the United States Census questionnaire in March 2010 either by U.S. mail or hand delivery. Everyone living in the U.S. must be counted citizens, non-citizens, resident or illegal-resident/alien. I have included the USA Government link of the 2010 Census for you to review at the bottom of this
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Please, pay close attention to questions #8 and #9 in the section labeled as “Person 1”. Person 1 is the person identified as the head of household who is completing the questionnaire. Also, pay close attention to questions #5 and #6 in the proceeding sections “Person 2” and so on. Person 2 is the person identified as a person related to person 1. Please be aware that in question #9 (Person 1) and question #6 (Person 2 and so forth) you have the option to mark the box "Some other race" and write in your race (Garifuna). This information may be useful for those people who want to identify themselves and their children as Garifuna.
Why is this important? For many years people have been estimating how many Garinagu actually live in the United States and there has yet to be an accurate count of Garinagu living in this country. The unofficial estimated Garifuna population in the U.S. has been between 200,000-300,000. I do not know how those numbers were determined when we have never been counted as a people in this country. In the past, we have been told that if we are from a Spanish-speaking country, we should count ourselves as Hispanic, Latino or Spanish. If we are from an English- speaking country, we should count ourselves as Black, African-American or Negro.
In my opinion, this is wrong because we need to be counted as who we are; Garinagu. If you identify yourself as Afro-American or Afro-Latino your options are clear. We, Garinagu, do not have any political agenda or special interest to be counted or identified as something that we are not for the benefit of the African-American or Afro-Latino population. This information is intended for those people who want to identify themselves as GARIFUNA and be counted as a GARIFUNA in the 2010 Census so we may finally have an accurate count of how many Garinagu actually live here in the United States. If we are not counted as Garifuna in the 2010 Census, we will continue to be an invisible race living in the shadows of others who want to define us by their own image and history.
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#8: Is person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?
#9: What is person 1's race?
Person 2
#5: Is person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?
#6: What is person 1's race?
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I was doing some research on Garifuna today and I got stuck. I became stuck because I was thinking about the story that has been echoed over and over again about our arrival to St. Vincent, the infamous shipped wrecked story of 1635. I personally do not accept or believe this story to be our origin on St. Vincent. This story has always baffled my mind and doesn't make any sense to me. If I accept the premise that Garinagu were never enslaved then the shipwrecked story has to be a fallacy. In my opinion once a human being has been stolen or sold from their home land (Africa), place in chains and shackles, put on a ”slave ship" and endured the middle passage then that human being was enslaved. If this is what happened to our ancestors and the only thing that freed us was a shipwreck than our entire history is based on a fallacy. That is one of the reason why I don't except this version our history to be true. I personally believe that the Garifuna people were already cohabitating on St. Vincent prior to the Europeans "discovery" of the new world. I believe that the subsequent shipwrecks only added to the Afro-Indigenous population (Garifuna) that was already there.
I thought long and hard before verbalizing my personal belief online in regard to this matter. Before writing down my thoughts, I decided to read about the "middle passage" again. I was sick to my stomach and became overwhelmed with tears. The story of the “middle passage" is usually a difficult story for anybody to read. Anyway, after reading about the “middle passage" I was convinced more than ever that if our ancestors endured that, I don't think we would be Garifuna today. The African American communities are still healing from the wombs of slavery and it began with the middle passage. If our ancestors went through the middle passage, I believe they would have made reference to that horrific and traumatic experience in one of our ancestral song. They would have sung of pain, agony, and death through that middle passage and we would still be singing that song like all the other songs we continue to sing today. The songs that our ancestors left us were about our homeland Yurumein.This is just my belief nothing more, nothing less. I invite you to visit the link below and read about middle passage or visit your local library.
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