Miskito
Americannoun
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Miskitos,
plural
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Miskito
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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
This affects the Miskito People or indigenous people of the Mosquito Coast in Nicaragua.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2021
The Miskito complaints are similar to problems that led to confrontations in neighbouring Nicaragua earlier this year.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2015
Autonomy talks between the Sandinistas and the largest armed group of Miskito Indians resumed after a hiatus of almost three years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Miskitos believe this is partly why the government has allowed the violence on the Caribbean coast to continue unabated.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Unable to withstand the harsh living conditions, many Miskitos are returning home.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Honduran Miskitos and other groups are demanding the government help them protect their territory in the swampy, heavily forested region.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2015
Beginning in mid-December 1981 the government, suspecting the Indians of aiding anti-Sandinista guerrillas based in Honduras, forcibly moved the Miskitos some 50 miles from the Honduran border.
From Time Magazine Archive
The commission recommended that the Sandinistas hold a conference of reconciliation with the Miskitos to improve the situation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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