Miskito

• “In the valleys and along the Caribbean coast, some 5,000 Miskito and Paya Amerindians continue to live in their traditional ways.”

  Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

• “The four existing groups are the Miskito Amerindians, the Paya (Pesh) indigenes, Garífunas of Afro-Caribbean descent, and the older ladino (mixed Spanish-Amerindian) settlers.”

  Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

• “The Miskito are the largest group, of around 4,500 people living in coastal settlements and two towns on the Tinto river.”

  Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras

• “She was this little Miskito [native] woman and she had $80,000.”

  Boing Boing

• “A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Lampshade

• “Rendered by its indigenous Miskito residents as Miskitia, this is the remote area of rainforest and coastal wetlands along the Nicaraguan border in the Caribbean zone.”

  Nikolas Kozloff: Honduras: Who's The Real Drug Trafficker?

• “La sirena y el buzo (The Mermaid and the Diver) layers elements of narrative and essay onto what look like unstaged documentary sequences of life in a Miskito fishing village to tell "an imaginary tale transporting us to reality," in the words of director Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez:”

  Berlinale Forum - Born in Defiance, Surviving with Integrity

• “Sinbad is later reborn as a member of the Miskito tribe living on the banks of the Coco River.”

  Berlinale Forum - Born in Defiance, Surviving with Integrity

• “Languages: Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) (note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast)”

  Nicaragua

• “NicaraguaSpanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast”

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