Sihkru tara: celebrating unity beyond borders indigenous. Solidarity in the Moskitia

Abstract

The Sihkru Tara is a bi-national festive rite that is shared annually by the Miskito populations of Nicaragua and Honduras. They do this to celebrate and strengthen their indigenous identity in a cultural exchange between generations; also to communicate with the spirits of the ancestors, to generate closeness and solidarity, and to analyze the threats that, as a people, they face today. The author of this article records all this through a chronicle also illuminated by the flash of her camera during the five days that this event lasted at the end of last year.