People
Work
Clothing
Food
Tradition
100
East Indians of Belize are the descendants of ...
What are indentured labourers
100
Where was their initial work ?
Where is sugar plantation?
100
Women were a ________, which is a long sheet of colorful cloth. This wear is draped over a simple or fancy blouse.
What is sari?
100
___________ is a type of spiced meat that has been hit with a blast of either curry, known as 'masala., yellow ginger, or 'gerdy'.
What is Tacari?
100
A festival meal ingredient is _____.
What is cabbage?
- specifically Cohune variety
200
The year of arrival to the country
What is 1838?
200
The workers farmed sugar and rice for export, and when competition grew in other parts of the country, they also shifted into l_____ contracts, and road construction.
What is logwood?
200
The men traditional clothes is called _________
What is Lungi, Dhoti, Pajama, Sarong or Sherwani?
200
This is an unleavened flatbread that is made out of wheat. It is a flour tortilla.
What is Roti?
200
One particular observance would be __________. Also known as the “Dead Yard,” this is a funeral observance where friends and loved ones of the deceased come together to commemorate the dead with songs and food nine days before the funeral service.
What is Ninth Night?
300
East Indians are distributed across a wide area in many villages and towns, primarily in the ______and Toledo Districts and are relatively well integrated into the Belizean population.
What is Corozal?
300
After the abolition of African slavery, Indians went to Belize to provide an alternate source of labour in the sugarcane, b_______ and lumber industries.
What is banana?
300
Is this a traditional female wear of the East Indian female?
What is 'yes'?
300
Dahl is a _____ _____ soup whose name comes from the Hindi word.
What is split pea?
300
Their own native dance, the “_______" is only performed on special occasions. Long ago accepted by the rest of the population, the East Indians presently make up about three percent of Belize's population, and have almost completely intermixed in terms of marriage and culture.
What is who-se-mi-se?
400
The East Indians who came to Belize in the 1880s were from J____.
What is Jamaica?
400
Many of the young East Indians have set up their own places of b_______ from the savings on their wages.
What is business ?
400
A dhoti is from four to six feet long white or colour strip of c____.
What is cotton?
400
Sano is a Hindi phrase that means 'eat with fingers', and is a general term for any sort of finger _____.
What is food?
400
The Yellow Ginger Festival is annually held , in the month of _______in Punta Gorda.
What is August?
500
_______is home to the largest population of East Indian people.
What is Toledo?
500
East Indians settled in Corozal District and cultivated f_____ and V_______for sale.
What are fruits and vegetables?
500
Younger East Indians have adopted Western-style clothing, such as j________ and tee-shirts.
What is jeans?
500
____ and sugar were farmed during plantation era Belize.
What is rice?
500
East Indians are mostly C_________, while others practice Hinduism.
Who are Christians?