Garifuna Settlement Day: Difference between revisions

'''Garifuna Settlement Day''' is a [[public holiday]] in [[Belize]], celebrated each year on November 19. The holiday was created by Belizean [[civil rights]] activist, [[Thomas Vincent Ramos]], in 1941.<ref name="Avila">{{cite book|last=Avila|first=Tomas Alberto|title=Garifuna World|year=2008|publisher=Milenio Associates|isbn=1928810020|pages=362, 423, 426|coauthors=Jose Francisco Avila}}</ref> It was recognized as a public holiday in the southern districts of Belize in 1943, and declared a national holiday in 1977.<ref name="Avila"/> The holiday celebrates the settlement of the [[Garifuna people]] in Belize after being exiled from the [[Grenadines]] by the British army.<ref>{{cite web|title=Garifuna Settlement Day Celebrated|url=http://www.sanpedrosun.net/old/98-452.html|work=San Pedro Sun|accessdate=19 November 2012}}</ref> The major festivities for the holiday occur in the town of [[Dangriga]], including parades, street music, and traditional dancing.<ref>{{cite book|last=Greenspan|first=Eliot|title=Frommer's Belize|year=2011|publisher=Wiley Publishing|location=Hoboken, N.J.|isbn=0470887702|pages=36–37|edition=4}}</ref>▼