Tangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages

In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua’s eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos’ struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British and American culture than to Hispanic Nicaraguan culture. C. Napier Bell, son of a British trader, grew up on the Miskito Coast in the nineteenth century and spoke the Miskito language fluently.…