Garifuna Settlement Day Mass and Celebrations in Color

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by Frank Palacio

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This book is about Garifuna spirituality, pride, and fashion. The Garifuna Settlement Day mass is a religious ceremony in which we thank God our creator, as well as commemorate and reenact the arrival of the Garifuna people to the shores of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, etc. after our expulsion from our ancestral homelands on the Island of St. Vincent, by the invading British. This annual mass is held in November, usually on the 19th, which is a public holiday in Belize, honoring and celebrating the arrival of the Garifuna people to that country. Garifuna activists and the socially aware have exported this idea to many cities throughout the United States, where Garifuna people reside, such as: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and parts of Texas that all have sizeable Garifuna populations, and they too have a Garifuna masses or celebrations thanking God for his goodness for bringing us so far as a people.

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