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
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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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It is the first significant escalation of Miskito migration to the U.S. since the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s.
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
In 2019, Miskito community leader Juan Carlos Ocampo brought a complaint of land invasion to government authorities, which they declined to investigate.
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
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
Both Miskitos and mestizos claim there has been no investigation into the crimes, and police often refuse to register their complaints.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
Publicly, the government has sided with the Miskitos.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2017
The Miskitos and the much less numerous Sumos and Ramas make up at most 4% of Nicaragua's 2.9 million people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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