The Shipwreck Of 1635 Debunked 🟡⚪️⚫️

Garifuna History Updated. This was a lecture offered by Cheryl L. Noralez at Moorpark College in
Similar Valley, CA. It was done during black history month celebrating the diversity of African descent peoples. Ms. Noralez offers a well-researched perspective of the long journey of the Kalinagu from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Roatan Bay Islands in Honduras Central America. She debunks the 1635 shipwreck story created and disseminated by the British under Sir William Young. The belief is that African explorers from the Mali empire sailed on their own to conquer the sea and ended up by the natural current of the ocean in the Lesser and Greater Antilles in the 1300s. They commingled with the native Arawak and Kalina (Carib )fusion which brought about the mighty Garifuna. Garinagu ruled the Caribbean Sea traveling from island to island for centuries until the Europeans came to invade and occupy their land. They were eventually exiled in 1797.

References: Salvador Suazo writings, 'Constructing Narratives of Resistance: The Invention & Dispossession of the 'Black Caribs' of St. Vincent by Tessa Murphy , 'The Insurrectional Resistance of the Garifuna Revolution' by Andoni Castillo Perez, Raymond Breton. Profesor Salvador Suazo THE SAN JUAN, TELA MASSACRE AND BIRTH OF HOPKINS Garifuna Capsule No 72: (available on Gahfu Garífuna Facebook page)

[donnareneau]

Greetings I am Garifuna as well. I only have information to my great-grandfather born on the Isle of Roatan. Thank you for this information.

[cristobalvalladares]

Wonderful!!!
Thought I knew a lot, but is still so much more. Thank you. I hope you do something on church in Trujillo Honduras. It is called san Juan de Bautista. A lot of Garifuna family records are kept there. But thank you again.

[afrolatinagrl]

This is amazing history, as an historian I would like to know about this Oral histories, and if I could get a reference. I have been doing research into stories about the Garifuna for my Anthropology class. I am planning a documentary on Oral tradition and our songs, so this is very helpful. Thank you for the share, and look forward to more information.

[omardemedina]

A beautiful, important and rich culture. They are the keepers of the Island Arawak Language and culture.

In terms of the oral history that debunks the shipwreck theory, is there any other evidence other than oral history?

For example archeological evidence dating back to the 13 hundreds or before?

[lennylambert]

I always had a problem with the present said history.

[AntarrahGilkes]

Great information....I was always of the opinion that Afrikan people were in the Caribbean long before Columbus stumbled onto these islands.

[leonelswazo]

She keep saying this is what we believe, but believing is not a fact tho I don’t think she understands that, you got to state some facts so I can’t also look it up and convince myself and know that truth, I don’t really go of off feelings, and no we are not the natives of that land yes we got some native blood is is mainly African blood and that was proven by DNA