this is the real Garifuna village which we represent trying to save our language
our way of doing things or music or cuisine
We're on the GoPro nine because we're gonna go to Livingston in the rain on the boat had to put the
baby away my big rig that i used with my Canon on it and the gimbal and microphone and all that we
call it the baby because you never leave the baby in the car and you never leave the baby at home
this is a big limestone wall
i know you probably can't tell but that cliff has got to be at least a thousand feet tall
looks like that hotel hasn't been used in quite some time is it closed no it's still working
too old most cheaper hotel there one night you pay 40 Quetzales with general bathroom wow
yeah that might be too cheap for me yeah we do cheap but not that cheap
We just got off the boat and we're in Livingston Guatemala now this is one small province and they
have almost 116 small village in people they have uh 60,000 people living here no it's only
they are not living only in the town yes they are share in another village around here around here
exactly so and here you can see it's a different root yeah different uh tree cortez amazing
plants on here yeah you can see the greens uh seeds on here yeah sorry the black seeds yeah
it's a black pepper that's a 27 roots inside rum wine and water you got sugar in your blood that helped
to wash the sugar from inside don't have a weed inside no no weed inside huh you put weed you [...]
carry it outside guatemala the more places i travel the more i find that there's much better
alternatives to solve problems than medicine you see that it's a fish bone it's a shark
bone yeah people have used it for the cancer you put it in the fire then you you make [...]
that you hear the people they drink and they'll wash the cancer from inside so they make it into a powder
i believe that because they don't want to get rid of cancer most of the people are going [...]
yeah yeah and then everything's dead in their body from ever on you you have to eat medicine for the
rest of your life exactly in this you don't need that this smaller one you can bring with you in
home but with this big one you have problem in the airport yeah yeah for example so how long
can we keep putting rum on it oh you can make much yeah one time more you want to try that first sure
so you can smell the rosemary yes it smells very tasty it smells more like uh like your garden
it's like an alcoholic herb garden in your mouth you see what i mean it's alcohol with
aroma the first sip you get the the rum flavor the second ship the paladar (palate) is covered with i
got aroma i got herbs all in my mouth and you can you can really taste each herb when you drink it
hot down here yes you can feel it coming down your throat when we go to the bathroom after drinking
this it's going to clean out the system what's your name my friend i forgot Philip Flores yeah
yeah okay last name if you notice all these businesses are Mayans it's not
one plus working we live very segregated exactly what's your religion we worship our dead ancestors
we feed them we beat the drum to them we dance for them but controlled by Shaman
or Sha-woman equal opportunity the tsunami and the hurricane tore us up in '98 hurricane Mitch
oh that's when all the hurricanes were coming through here like every week okay so this tore us
up we lost a lot of people here tsunamis came all the way up this high wow the original name of this
place is Labuga Labuga it means isolated you see that color the black yellow and white that is [...]
us we make our [...] the most poisonous root in the world the manioc the bitter manioc
[...] snake trying to eat a poisonous frog and when the twisting was able to dissect
it so this [...] made a snake-like thing had the people grate this poisonous yucca
packed it inside the snake-like thing push this stick here in the head
and have the woman with the big butt sit on it all the poison all the poison drip
out the rest of it they used to make this bread the cassava bread this bread lasted
to 15 years they're all late get the nicer so it actually tastes better with age like wine
yeah but it's made with no preservative with no additive oh pure our drum the music would be i
will beat the platinum but first and foremost we have to grate the coconut that's our emblem
this is where we do our [...] program we listen to our music yeah it's in our language
so those chickens look different what are those birds why but the birds are just like that chicken
that was a chicken yeah but like a baby chicken then yeah city people they don't know s%#*
that's why the Jamaicans say you come from this s%#*ty man
this is our temple you're welcome oh yeah this is where we set out candles food
this is where the women dance three nights three days in a row and the original drum of
the Garifuna oh wow like him come down when the Shaman says it's time to come down so this is
packed with Garifunais when we have a celebration so the 'wood' floor is made by
thousands of dancing feet nice it's it's almost hard as a concrete even though it's dirt
also a part of our history how we came here we actually stepped from the island of Saint Vincent
but when we got in problem with the British they killed most of the Blacks and the few that
survived they packed them on two ships towed them out to the high seas and cut the lines all loose
but it was intended for them to drown like rats casuality of the waves pushed these two ships
and beat them in Roatan and from Roatan we made it [...] modern day
Labuga when you have the next anniversary from Livingston our national day is 26 26 is
i as a leader is not about to deal with the 26th of November it's a day that the government give us
to celebrate our day but this thing have been mis- it has a huge misconception i told them
you just hit a thing i was talking about two days ago might as well we say "Gallo Day"
because the company's big companies send their alcohol here in mass yes they know we will beat
the drums they know we will sing the sounds and they know we'll dance and [...]
but what we'll be drinking is their product now if Gallo comes in build a school help build a school
or a hospital i don't mind we supporting them but they keep us in poverty yeah every time they come
after the festival they don't [...] our little money and going back to the city
here we go again trying to get back to feed our kids [...]
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