Surviving the Americas: This collaborative research project brought together researchers from Nicaragua and Seattle to research and write this book about the Garifuna people of Nicaragua, who form part of the Central American, Afro-Indigenous people descended from shipwrecked West Africans and local Indigenous groups on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. In this book, the authors shed light on what it means to be Garifuna in Nicaragua today and how Garifuna culture, traditions, and reverence for their ancestors persist.