Thousands of Miskito, Sumo and Rama Indians went into exile in Honduras, while thousands more were forced into resettlement camps in central Nicaragua. Yet the Indian fighters never developed the ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Land conflicts between settlers and Miskito Indians on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast have left at least nine people dead this month and 20 wounded. Indians have armed ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Land conflicts between settlers and Miskito Indians on Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast have left at least nine people dead this month and 20 wounded. Indians have armed ...

WASPAM, Nicaragua – Just this month ... As the conflict intensified, authorities said Indians torched settlements. The Miskito replied that police in the area shot at them.

Miskito Indians surround a U.S. air force helicopter bringing humanitarian aid Friday to Sandy Bay in northeastern Nicaragua after Category 5 Hurricane Felix hit the area. Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua?

The hostility between the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast was sharp during the 1980s, and many Indians joined the contra effort against that ...

Miskito Indians from the Caribbean coast and descendants of Aztecs, who hardly know each other, still flourish within the country. Nicaragua’s lakes, forests, and volcanoes earn the accolades ...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The Honduran government granted title to more than 1.6 million acres along the country's border with Nicaragua and the Caribbean coast to the Miskito Indian communities ...

MIAMI — Leaders of the Nicaraguan Miskito Indians on Tuesday condemned one of their members for meeting with the Sandinista government and vowed to continue fighting the regime until democracy ...

FILE - In this May 24, 2005 file photo, a Miskito Indian carries bananas on his head on the banks of the Coco river near the town of Waspan, Nicaragua, on the border with Honduras. The government ...

But the Miskito Indians, descendants of Indians, European settlers and African slaves who speak their own language and have a long-standing mistrust of Nicaragua’s central government ...