# Carib Atlas authorship record

## Exclusive original project credit

**MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA — Author, Engineer, Data Scientist, and Native-Speaker Research Authority**

Dangriga, Belize

This is the exclusive original project credit for the **Garifuna–Island Carib Roots & Revitalization Atlas**, including its LILA Nisamina V12-style Method Lab, sentence-witness-first and phrase-first research engines, evidence architecture, software implementation, data engineering, academic synthesis, and public peer-review teaching edition.

Do not shorten the name, drop the **Ñ**, substitute a filesystem username, or add a project co-author without explicit written direction from MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA.

## Author-supplied identity statement

MARAGAÑ literally means **Shaka** and is also the author's name. The **maragañ** is the male sacred rattle of the **buyei** within the **dabuyaba**. The **cicira** (shaka), used outside the dabuyaba, is female.

This statement is the author's testimony. It must not be generalized, reinterpreted, or expanded into additional ceremonial claims without the author's review.

## Scientific and attribution boundary

Exclusive project authorship does not erase the distinct bibliographic attribution, permissions, institutional metadata, community authority, or rights-holder notices owed to Garifuna teachers, elders, speakers, performers, source authors, researchers, translators, artists, publishers, archives, or institutions whose evidence is cited in the Atlas. Those source credits are evidence attribution, not co-authorship of this project.

The Atlas studies historical continuity, change, loss, and possible revitalization. A computational match, sound pathway, morphology pathway, or research hypothesis is not lexical admission, etymological proof, pronunciation certification, or community certification.

## V11.7 method record

The current V11.7 strict EAF content-gated, sentence-witness, exact-form, sense, morphology, Breton-relation, teaching, and lineage correction—and its preserved phrase-first lineage—are recorded in **`SENTENCE_WITNESS_METHOD_REPORT_V11_7.md`**. Earlier method reports remain preserved in versioned rollback packages.

- File: `SENTENCE_WITNESS_METHOD_REPORT_V11_7.md`
- Bytes: `19,321`
- Lines: `202`
- SHA-256: `36519220ea51bd0847fff6efd575c206f0ce5e150bc8f01023772deb743c774b`
- Authorship: **MARAGAÑ (Shaka) MAGARADA — Author, Engineer, Data Scientist, and Native-Speaker Research Authority**
- Preservation policy: rebuild the method payload and refresh the recorded hash whenever the V11.7 report changes; distribute this authorship record with the report.

## Application release

- Application: Garifuna–Island Carib Roots & Revitalization Atlas
- Public route: `https://garifunalearningacademy.com/carib-atlas/`
- Release: `0.8.2`
- Edition: public sentence-witness teaching and peer-review research application
- Authorship assertion source: direct author declaration
- Authorship status: author self-attested