One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental ... unwelcome interlopers who carve up lands that provide food and medicine, and block access for the villagers’ own ...

Our rooms are rustic, but the food is delicious ... our host Guy Fredericks (a member of the Macushi, one of Guyana’s nine Amerindian tribes), he invites me into the kitchen “to meet the ...

Amerindians were the first people to inhabit Guyana, which translates as "land ... Cassava crops, a staple food for millennia, fringe the settlement, which is linked to the nearest town by a ...

Out of 186 countries, only Guyana produces enough food to self-sufficiently feed all its citizens without foreign imports, ...

These activities in the Amerindian villages and communities across Guyana also allowed for all ... an absence of food processing technology to cater for periods of shock, and the need for our ...

“They (Amerindians) are fed up with the paternalistic ... while criticizing the manner in which the government had been treating Guyana’s indigenous people. Carberry, while reading from ...

and the stories behind the food. To understand pepperpot and garlic pork, you first need to know that Guyana is part of South America but also part of the Caribbean. The native Amerindian ...

WEARING both hiking boots and nightclothes, blearily rubbing the sleep from our eyes, we jerked and bumped our way by jeep across the Rupununi savannah of southwestern Guyana. As the sun rose over ...

Amerindian communities in Guyana have raised concerns that Venezuela’s takeover may threaten decades-long battles for recognition of their customary lands and, in the process, endanger the ...

Cassava crops, a staple food for millennia ... the windswept plains like silent sentries. Amerindians may have been the first people to inhabit Guyana and they still make up nearly a 10th of ...

The native Amerindian population was colonized by the Dutch in the ... "A really good cassareep is supposed to have the complexity you can find in a good caramel," says Guyanese food writer Cynthia ...