Congratulations to the Garifuna people for preserving their heritage.

This was an amazing mini documentary of my culture, my people. As a Garifuna I am trying to hold on to my traditions.

As a Jamaican I know the dance the couple was doing because I saw my grandparents and other adults doing it in Jamaica These are just some of the things our ancestors passed on and it is so evident in this video We are so much alike no matter the language I cannot explain it but I feel so proud right now One Love!!

I’m not garifuna but I’m from Roatan Honduras 🇭🇳 we are all one people

Yes! Never lose your language! Never lose your culture!

You are a beautiful people, culture, and music. Being Hawaiian from Hawaii I can very much relate. After the US overthrow of our monarchy, it was against the law to even speak our language in public. So the language stopped with my grandmother after her father died. Our Polynesian ancestors such as Maori from New Zealand fight the sane fight as a people. To keep their culture alive. What we have done as Polynesians is open Charter Schools that teach the language, culture, music, customs, and dance. Trust me for generations people have worked against our efforts to do just that. All it takes is one school, build it and they will come. You have many people in existence. There are only about 8,000 pure hawaiians left. We lost many Hawaiians when the white man founded our islands. Disease wiped us nearly out. The white men raped our woman and the men fought against being taken as slaves. They would have rather died then be taken away from their homeland. This is the history they dont want to teach you in the US. Many of us are mixed but we fight to keep our culture alive. We have had to adapt to the new world as we know it. But our love, honor, and respect to our elders keeps us alive. Be blessed and stay grounded in who you are. Because no one can take that from you. Even if you dont speak your language. Listen to your music. That will speak to your soul. Aloha.

We are from st Vincent originally. That's a fact that wasn't mentioned in this documentary. We are a mix between African (some say Mali) and the native Caribbean people that lives in st Vincent. Some say the original Africans were from mansa Musa kingdom. This documentary doesn't mention nothing about st Vincent (where we originated from) so this doesn't tell the entire story

It's awesome to hear that the film impacted you like that. As I was working on this project, I had many days where I had no idea if anyone would ever get the opportunity to see what I was making. I'm grateful that so many people have been able to see it.

Fourty years ago, I went to Roatan. I have never been treated so much like family... I was not to stay. It is still the place that I talk of, as the best place in the world to live. Today, i started looking at travel plans, what a surprise. those people move us out where ever. I rented a house from "Aunt" Serena Woods, people treated me as family everywhere. Half Moon was so different, and the Rum Lady, in th mangroves. Finding this video, and others like it, let me know that the love still lives.. Thank You Roatan, and the Garifuna people..

Best documentary on KZfaq!!!! Thank you so much for giving me something to share with my kids. I was born in raise in Brooklyn New York but I'm 100% GARIFUNA! As a matter of fact I didn't learn to speak English until my mom and dad sent me to school! They figured I'm in America surrounded by English so they didn't have to teach me that. But we only spoke Garifuna at home. I thank them everyday for that! Aba Isieni (One Love)

Please don't make your culture become extinct it's very important for all the black people in the Diaspora. I'm born in Panama and I'm black and I would love to learn about your culture more

I'm from st.Vincent and I'm proud of my heritage but we're in need of serious help there with learning the language and the culture

I'm Haitian and I love this documentary. Big up to Garifuna culture. I have a beautiful friend name Emily who is from Belize and of that culture. ❤

Thank You for the history lesson. My father was Garifuna. I never knew the history of how Garifuna ended up in Belize. Short and sweet but I learned so much!!!

This is my culture.I am A direct Garifuna from St.Vincent

This is absolutely beautiful. I'm so proud to be a Garifuna. Great job guys.

No soy Negro, no soy Garífuna mas Fui Educado y Criado por una mujer negra,una mujer Garifuna. La cual amo con todo mi ser. Y cuando me piden que comparta de mi cultura Guatemalteca. La Etnia Garifuna es lo primero comparto , porque desde niño fui alimentado de esta hermosa y deliciosa cultura."Garinagu Forever"

First time learning about the garifuna culture and im from cuba and I have to say that I love the fact that the culture still rich and i hope the best for all, like cuba and the Caribbean the history is beautiful, saludos a todos!.

Thanks for your kind words. I am glad to hear the film resonates within the Garifuna community.

My wife is from Honduras but her background is Garifuna so this is really interesting to me.

Proud of my country! Arriba HONDURAS! Y viva Los garifunas! I love this documentary❤️🇭🇳

Yasss this I beautiful. I was born in Chicago but my people are from 🇧🇿 Belize and id like to learn the Garifuna language

Hang on to your culture. Don't ever let it disappear. Saludos desde Puerto Rico.

I love my culture ! Honduran all day ! Garinago ! 💕💯🙌

I have learned a lot from this video, knowing that St Vincent is really the home land of this great culture, Big up love it

Love my people. Love this so much. Proud Garifuna forever!!!❤❤🇭🇳

It is a wonderful thing to see the effort the Garifuna are placing in preserving their Culture, language, and traditions. That is what makes the people and makes them part of the beautiful pattern that is the fabric of Society as a whole! Blessings to them all!

This is deeply eye opening and inspiring. I am part Antiguan and part Jamaican and this documentary leads me to believe that in both those island there are sub groups other than the maroons in Jamaica that need to be discovered and celebrated. Thank you so much for this post.

Proud garifuna 🇻🇨

This is beautiful! Thank you for creating this beautiful documentary. Long live the Garifuna people culture and language!

This is a very powerful documentary about our Garifuna people and our culture. Our history is amazing! A lot of what was said touched me deeply. Most of our people are trilingual while maintaining the Garifuna language. #backtomyroots

Thank you so much. Our story is finally being heard & taught to the world. Garifuna Wagiya (Garifuna We are), Aba Isieni (One Love)

Finally the best garifuna documentary ever hope for more people to watch this because u got a lot of people that don't no about there original culture for years I've been brain wash not knowing anything about this beautiful history and culture this is a wake up call to all my garifuna people that's born and living in the USA

This is absolutely amazing! You guys have done an excellent job with this documentary. Thank you for helping/creating this video! I am a proud and a satisfied Garifuna. I loved the introduction!

This made my day. I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'm very pleased that the video helped you remember your culture. All the best.

Watching them play marbles took me back to my youth in Trinidad. I went to Hopkins Belize in March and I never experienced a more mellow place. The dogs were so chill. I loved visiting with the Garifuna People and learning their culture💯💛 . As an child of the African Diaspora it was amazing to met our Brothers and Sisters.

I love what you did. I am from Canada but Hondurian and love their culture ❤️

Jerry! Good to hear from you. I still appreciate your encouragement near the beginning of the project. I am grateful for people like you that were excited about the film and told me to keep going. I'm no longer in DC; I'm back in Utah.

As an American born woman, I wish I had a connection or tribe or people that u could go back to. I’m very envious of the Garifuna people and Culture. What a blessing to be able to go back to your roots. Great documentary. 😊

My mother's family is Garifuna. To be quite frank, it is all I love! Punta para siempre 🇭🇳

This documentary was very informative and I am Glad that Ben Peterson took the time to put our story out there as well as taking the time to properly annunciate The Garifuna Tribe's name. Although Jorge W. Zuniga got credits for his footages in this documentary I also want to send him as well as Corner The Market Media and everyone involved in this film a shout out for taking part in this Phenomenal project.

Bumped into this article on Facebook, one of the guys in this video passed a few days ago. R.I.P Ñeko

A brother from Sénégal 🇸🇳 just love everything about you people. I'll get my self there to meet the garifuna some day. 🙌🏿

Prospect ave in the bronx and linden blvd in brooklyn on weekends.. Is our gathering... Itz good to see family enlightening the masses.

It's funny, while an interesting cross-section of people (Garifuna and Non-Garifuna) were interviewed for this short documentary, I am reminded that this just the tip of the iceberg. There truly is much, much more to explore. That feeling is evoked with every documentary that I see on the subject of the Garifuna ethnic group. The scope and breadth of the Garifuna experience is broad. It'll be interesting to see if future efforts are as wide-ranging as this. Teofilo Colon Jr. Being Garifuna

Loved the documentary. Stumbled across this. The video made me tear up . I didn’t know my grandparents was in this video, especially since my grandmother passed away a couple years ago. Thank pleasantly surprised 🥰

that festival is in the bx prospect park it's so much fun i go every year

The Garifunas have the best food, music and they're so friendly. I'm Honduran, not Garifuna, but love our Garifuna people.

This was an awesome documentary on our Garifuna culture!

My people ✊🏾 so proud

They didn't arrive by slave ship wreck, in Africa we know about our people who left the continent on boats long before civilization got to Europe. We were taught that some sailed the oceans and came back home and some did not. For this reason black indigenous people are found in Asia, the South Pacific and even in South America but just like the African proverb says: Until the lion becomes a historian, the hunter will keep on being portrayed as the hero... awesome job on the documentary :)

Great work @ benpetersen101. Thank you for taking time out of your life to make a documentary about my culture. Aban Isieni Numada!!! (One Love My Friend)

Great Job, to all who contributed to this informative video. I found this video- browsing for Garifuna info for my ESL class. So glad I found this video, Since I was raised in N.O. and have spent every summer vacation in Honduras it was nice to see the visual for these places. I now live in NY and can relate to how life is here too. I remember how I was reminded as a child, as a teenager, as a young adult and as a wife and as a mother that "I'm a Garifuna". Thank you, God's blessings!

Beautifully done, thank you for sharing, love from Belize

Thank you so much for this video! This was very informative and moving. A true gem.

Hi Ibemeni. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! I'm not planning on any sort of DVD distribution, but I will leave this video online until the end of time :) I would also be happy to dropbox you the file if you're interested in having a digital version of the film. PM me your email address and I will share it with you.

i’m a first gen mestizo-honduran in the U.S. no direct blood ties to garifuna’s but i got nothing but love for them and that culture very proud to have the influence from them in honduras and so proud to share honduran’s w them all one people 🇭🇳

I miss going to Tela and Puerto Cortez in Honduras and seeing my Garífuna people 🇭🇳

Rest In Peace to "Ñeco", who was murdered in Honduras last night / this morning when he was shot in the head. I do not have any other information on this matter at this time. Ñeco appears at the 5:14 mark of the video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nr6SZdNjvM2sqH0.htmlm15s

I feel that sometimes white people don't really realize that just how when they're white they have diversity... British, German, Irish, etc. The Asian and Black cultures are the same and the Indians as well.

The thing is that their culture is a big part of Honduran Music. It's called Punta and most of it is sang in their language! I'm Honduran and I appreciate all of the diversity they add to Honduras

The young man with red and black beads was my elementary school classmate and last I’ve heard he passed away. Now the lady @14:40 said “I was running away from the camera and I’m still being followed”😂😂

I met some of them when me and my family went to my cousin's wedding in the northern coast of Honduras.

Man this bring back some memories coming up in Belize. Hoodut all day

A huge misconception is that the Garinagu came from Saint Vincent but that’s what the whites told others because if they came from Saint Vincent and by default they were Runaway slaves, my great great grandmom is from north Brazil and she told my gran mom she came from Saint Vincent but that’s her ancestors came from Africa way before the British arrived

I enjoyed every bit of this documentary

I AM OF GARIFUNA DECENT. MY GRANDPARENTS NEVER TAUGHT MY PARENTS HOW TO SPEAK GARIFUNA..CONSEQUENTLY, I DO NOT SPEAK IT FLUENTLY BECAUSE OF THIS. ALTHOUGH I DO UNDERSTAND A FEW WORDS. MY GOAL IS TO MASTER GARIFUNA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. THANK YOU KZfaq.

Simply fantastic! I cant believe I had not watched this gem, thanks for sending it my way Ben! Much love from this catracho to you brother.

Well done Ben Petersen. Very informative. I'm happy to know a Garifuna called Dr. Sebi, birth name Alfredo Bowman. Watching your documentary I couldn't help feeling that some of these people are Dr. Sebi's family and they share his view about their heritage.

Yo vivo en España pero me gusta mantener la cultura hondureña por que estoy orgullosa de mi tierra de mi gente, donde sonreí y lloré pero dónde hay mucho amor

I love what the lady said about respecting and learning about your culture & heritage, whatever it may be! I agree 100%. Just learning about our beautiful differences is too much for some small minded people, however, and it sometimes balloons into nationalism (oppression) or hate (stupidity). Those of us operating at a higher frequency spiritually, know that we are all a unique and different creation by God. These Garifuna are beautiful in their own unique way!

God bless Garifuna people. I herd about them about 10 years ago, since one of them married one of my sisters. Since that, I have them in my heart, so their culture and beautiful enjoyable sacred music. They have a beautiful interesting history. Please; Garifuna people, put deep in your heart to keep and defend for ever, your culture. And be proud.of your language and talk Garifuna where ever you live and go. I sing your sacred music and fill my heart. PR want to know more of you and I want to learn your language. The lov and the peace of the Almighty God be with you! My love from PR.

Wonderful! I hope we can have a reunion with the island Caribs of Dominica. What a get 2gether that would be!

An African diaspora group that speaks a Native American language.

My students turned me on to this. Sparked my curiosity. Beautiful culture.

Good Documentary. But it's important to note that however we ended up on this side of the Atlantic, as Gullah, Kreyol, Maroon, Quilombos, Jamaican,Garifuna, we are still an African People. Yes, All African Groups became infused with Indian, Portuguese, and other cultures. The predominate trait in the Garifuna is African. Appearance is clearly the major factor. Also look at the drumming as another example. Whites are still European after migrating, and becoming American, Canadian, Australian, South African, Arcadian, Cajun, Appalachian, etc. Denial exists with all groups of Black People. Ex. I'm not Black/African, I'm Dominican; I'm Puerto Rican; I got Indian Ancestry; you should not confuse us with that African-American terminology; Grandpa was Irish; Great Mother was Italian; even though you can be very Black. This is the case in Africa. I'm not African, I'm Nigerian, I'm Ethiopian, I'm Arabic, I'm Muslim, and so on, and so on. The young Garifunas must keep this culture intact. Failure to connect internationally/globally with Africa will put the Garifuna culture in jeopardy. Stop the denial. Just because you weren't taught something by age 5, new information should not be disregarded.

Wow! What a great documentary! Great work.

i love this! i just found out about the Garifuna thru a subscriber of mine who watches us all the way in Belize. So fascinating.

Thank you for showing this side of my country 🇭🇳⭐️💙

Thanks Ben, beautiful Documentary of the Garifuna Culture as an Honduran living in Miami im now learning a lot,Gracias

Ty so much for this video 🙏🏾🥺😭🙏🏾

Desde Colón Honduras 🇭🇳 amanos y apreciamos la belleza y la cultura garífuna gracias

Never lose your cultural and be proud !

Thanks for sharing this!

My beautiful wife is Saint Lucian...but she always talk about the different native cultures of these islands. As an Americano I never knew of this. I am a college graduate with a B.A in History and still all of this is quite new to me. The educational system will have us all to believe we only came to our locations as slaves and thats just not true. We were already here. In America we have natice culture too....its in my blood. So much we were never told.

I’m a Garifuna from Santa Rosa De Aguan 🇭🇳 💪🏾

Exelente video!

Great piece. Thank you.

My dads people from Belize 🇧🇿 my grandma is half garífuna and I miss the hudut 😭 😋

Beautiful! Culture is so important because it gives us pride & identity. Without culture, the youths are lost to the system which is created to keep them down so it is essential to teach it to the next generation.

Dane Paulo, there is a film , currently still in the making by Andrea Leland that's titled Yurumein which means St. Vincent .. about the Garifuna in St. Vincent and the Grenadines ... the film Yurumein trailer is on you tube ...

what so beautiful , they still understand their language from Africa. I love this culture. I have garifuna friends.

Beautiful, simply Beautiful, All YAH'S people scattered to the four corners of the earth, beautiful 😚😄💖

Their food is like Caribbean food.....thanks for this...same games we played in the Caribbean --marbles :) ...I want to learn more

Ben , Seremein - Thank you for telling our Garifuna story .. Well said !! I love it ... I would like to know how & when this will be available on dvd ? I also wanted to mention if Dane Paulo listened or watched your film she would have heard your reference to St. Vincent and the Grenadines towards the beginning of the film after the reference of Africa...

While doing research for my book I came across this video. Happy to have learned about the Garifuna people and their rich culture.

I think this documentary was missing alot .

Great documentary, but I see no references to your original homeland of St. Vincent?

I am happy you're natural people.!!!

I would love to learn the language but they don’t do it in my home country SVG