The nuclear family of the Galibi which came from Guiana consisted of two brothers, Julien and Geraldo Lod, married to two sisters, and a sister of the Lods, married to Joseph Jean-Jaque. In French Guiana, Jean-Jaque lived in Grand Village and the Lods in Couachi, two places near each other. The grandfather of the Lods was called Emile François Zacharie and was the cousin of Grand Emile (Alobé Emile), grandfather of the wives of Geraldo and Julien Lod.

The Indians who live in the village of São José are direct descendants of these families. Another family is comprised of a third sister of the wives of the Lods, who is married to a retired (non-Galibi) teacher, with no children. According to Galibi marriage rules, which designate a preference for marriage between classificatory cross cousins, the youths of the first descending generation either remained single or married with non-Indian women, which in fact happened. This situation must not have been very easy for them. But today, the non-Galibi, married in the village, are quite well integrated and liked by the more elderly, their mothers- and fathers-in-law. Traditionally when two young people intended to marry, generally a choice which was already arranged by their parents, they and their families performed a sequence of ritualized acts, such as the betrothed man’s and his father’s visit with the parents of the bride, followed by the offer of a cigar. The young couple were submitted to difficult tests to prove their competence as accomplished agriculturalists, hunters and artisans, for the men, and perfect cotton weavers, cloth-weavers, ceramic artists and preparers of caxixi, for the women.