Miskito
Americannoun
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Miskitos,
plural
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Miskito
plural
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a member of an Indigenous people of northeastern Nicaragua and adjacent areas of Honduras.
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the language of the Miskito.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Miskito
First recorded in 1770–80; from Spanish Mosquito, from Miskito Miskito, a self-designation of uncertain orign
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Apiñas and her family are part of a mass exodus of the Miskito Indigenous community, descendants of Indigenous people, Europeans and Africans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing fields were ravaged.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Like others in his Miskito community, his family caught fish and crayfish from the rivers, hunted deer and large guinea pig-like paca, and used trees harvested from the forest to build their homes and boats.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020
The Miskito complaints are similar to problems that led to confrontations in neighbouring Nicaragua earlier this year.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2015
In June the Sandinistas for the first time named a Miskito, Myrna Cunningham, 36, as civilian governor of North Zelaya province, the Indian heartland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unable to withstand the harsh living conditions, many Miskitos are returning home.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Publicly, the government has sided with the Miskitos.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
The government has ignored calls from the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights to adopt measures to protect Miskitos.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border.
From Time Magazine Archive
The F.D.N. guerrillas are largely grouped in the mountainous northwest corner of Nicaragua along the Honduran border; the fighting Miskitos in the rain forests of the northeast, and Pastora's group in the equally impassable southeast.
From Time Magazine Archive
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