| In the 1980s, the Nicaraguan government instituted the first bilingual education programs for native people, taught in the Miskito language. |
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| Formerly, Sumu and Miskito women made loincloths and skirts from pounded tree bark or locally woven cotton. |
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| Both the Sumu and Miskito languages are derived from the Chibchan Indian language family of South America. |
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| Pressure from Miskito combatants compelled the Sandinista government to recognize the coast's diversity and distinct identity. |
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| Most Sumu and Miskito are multilingual, speaking Spanish in school and their native language at home. |
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| Black Creoles and Garifunas, the descendants of Caribbean slaves, mix with Miskito, Rama, and Sumu Indians, who have lived on the land for hundreds of years. |
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| After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet. |
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| His organization, Comandante Karnika said under the sweltering sun, is prepared to go to war to defend Miskito land and protect their natural resources. |
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| Although English accounts refer as well to various noble titles, Miskito social structure does not appear to have been particularly stratified. |
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| Miskito Kings renewed their alliance with Great Britain, and Belize replaced Jamaica as the principal British connection to the kingdom. |
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| Spain, which claimed the territory, suffered considerably from the Miskito attacks which continued during peacetime. |
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| There is a native Miskito language, but large groups speak Miskito Coast Creole, Spanish, Rama and other languages. |
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| Traditional Miskito society was highly structured with a defined political structure. |
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| Many Miskito, Mayangna, and Ulwa people also speak Miskito Coast Creole, and a large majority also speak Spanish. |
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| The majority speak Miskito Coast Creole as their first language and Spanish as their second. |
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| It was named after the local Miskito Amerindians and was long dominated by British interests. |
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| The Mosquito Coast was generally defined as the domain of the Mosquito or Miskito Kingdom and expanded or contracted with that domain. |
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| By the late 17th century, their leader held the office of General with jurisdiction over the northern portions of the Miskito Kingdom. |
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| The council argued that none of George Augustus Frederic II's wives was Miskito and that none of their children was eligible as a result. |
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| The burgeoning local narcoeconomy has led separatist Miskito Indians to formally consider using the drug money for local needs. |
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| Still another pirate was John Julian, a 16-year-old Miskito Indian from southeastern Central America. |
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| The largest indigenous group in Nicaragua is the Miskito people. |
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| Severin also discusses another publicised case of a marooned man named only as Will, of the Miskito people of Central America, who may have led to the depiction of Man Friday. |
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| The Miskito people sometimes use a similar flag that also incorporates the Union Jack in its canton, due to long periods of contact in the Mosquito Coast. |
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| The Miskito kings received regular gifts from the British in the form of weapons and consumer goods, and provided security against slave revolts and capturing runaways. |
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| Most of the labor on the estates was supplied by African slaves and by indigenous slaves captured in Miskito and British raids into Spanish territory. |
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| In the early 18th century, the Miskito kingdom became organized into four distinct clusters of population, centered on the banks of the navigable rivers. |
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| The 1860 treaty also recognized that the Mosquito Kingdom, now reduced to the territory around Bluefields, would become an autonomous Miskito reserve. |
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| Its substrate languages are the Native American language Miskito, and the various West African and Bantu languages brought into the country by slaves. |
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| The new colony suffered setbacks as a result of many of the settlers dying en route and the Miskito Crown showing its dissatisfaction with the gifts offered by the Spanish. |
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