Miskito Indians Honduras / Various

Produced and recorded by David Blair Stiffler. "First contacted from the outside world by Columbus on his fourth and final voyage in 1502, the Miskito Indians have been able to maintain their culture despite the influx of a variety of different races by absorbing and integrating newcomers into their society. Living on the eastern coast of Honduras and Nicaragua that faces the Caribbean Ocean in a territory named after them, the Miskito have developed a way of life directly linked to their reliance on the abundant wildlife that inhabits the rivers and ocean as well as the land that they cultivate in the tropical forest and clearing in the interior...."