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Image 1 — A Garifuna from Yucatan Particularly from Southern Chetumal 🇲🇽🇧🇿
Image 2 — A Garifuna from Yucatan Particularly from Southern Chetumal 🇲🇽🇧🇿
Image 3 — A Garifuna from Yucatan Particularly from Southern Chetumal 🇲🇽🇧🇿
▲ 24 r/DNAAncestry+1 crossposts

A Garifuna from Yucatan Particularly from Southern Chetumal 🇲🇽🇧🇿

Although Garinagu are not considered a primary location in Mexico—there is Garifuna located in Mexico despite not being recognized in the Mexican Census and there is proven influence and documentation of Garifuna & Afro Belizean (Kriol) migration and local musical impacts of Chetumal.

Many Garifuna and Kriol had migrated to Chetumal during Early 1900s to the 1940s, this was due to a rising very industry in Chicle and Rum which was understaffed which sought workers from British Honduras or British Yucatan (Now Belize).

Y-DNA: E1a1-M44

MtDNA: D1

This individual in particular has obviously experienced intermixing with Afro Yucataecan Populations, but this Mayan-South Caribbean-African mix is very common in Garifuna regions of Punta Gorda in Belize.

Background on the Garifuna: Free Africans who mixed with Indigenous Caribbean (Kalinago), their culture is primarily Indigenous American with a emphasis on Seafaring and Well-being: were described first as Black Caribs or Garifuna Indians who culture was Piracy combined with Warmongering.

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