Tawira Miskito

The Tawira Miskito are indigenous peoples of Nicaragua. They are a band of Miskito people and live in the southern part of the Mosquito Coast. They are also known as Tauira and Tawira. They speak the Tawira language.^[1]

The Tawira are related to the Miskito Sambu, who intermarried with Africans who had shipwrecked on the coast in the mid-seventeenth century. The term is unattested before the early nineteenth century, though it may have come into existence before that time.^[2]

References

1. "Miskito: Tawira language." Global Recordings. (retrieved 2 July 2011)
2. Karl Offen, "The Sambu and Tawira Miskito: Origins and Geography of Intra-Miskitu Differentiation in Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras," Ethnohistory 49/2 (2002): 319-72.