Christmas in Shulinab

Nicholas Fredericks with his mom recently.

Hunting, fishing, parakari, forro and… marathons make a Shulinab Christmas. Shulinaban, Nicholas Fredericks, spoke with SN journalist Gaulbert Sutherland about Christmastime in the last Macushi village in the South Central Rupununi in Region Nine.

“Sometimes we have a marathon, a road race where we would have a house mainly with parakari in it, and the winner of the race usually tries to get into the house but you have some strong men standing