The island-dwelling Guna people of Panama are one of the most sovereign indigenous communities in the world, being endowed with extensive land tenure and self-governance rights. And like many of the ...
ACHUTUPO, Panama — After keeping the world at bay for five centuries, the Kuna Indians on Panama’s unspoiled Caribbean coast now confront an insidious intruder: cocaine traffickers. The fiercely ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ARCHIPELAGO SAN BLAS, Panama — I walked down a narrow, dusty path that would’ve been an alley if it wasn’t the main drag of this Kuna Indian village. Tiny ...
One of the traditional songs performed by the sahilas, or wise elders of Kuna Yala, compares their tribe's 365 tiny Caribbean islands, which are legally part of Panama but afforded a degree of ...
Money doesn’t grow on trees, unless you’re a Kuna Yala. For these traditional Indians of the Caribbean coast of Panama, money grows in the form of coconuts, which they harvest for barter. If you have ...
The Kuna, an indigenous group in Panama, set aside an area of the Comarca, their autonomous reserve, for protection of its biodiversity. This project, called PEMASKY, attracted the attention of the ...
Kuna Yala, the indigenous name for Kuna land, is a narrow strip of coastline that stretches about 250 miles along Panama's Caribbean coast and borders Colombia. The Kuna Indians live mainly on the San ...
The old man sang in a quiet, melodic voice, his song floating on moist tropical air through the flimsy wall of a thatched palm frond hut. Enraptured, I stood listening on a narrow pathway that led to ...
Jesús Smith is sitting at his old wooden desk facing the entrance to his house. He’s hunched over, shirtless, and wearing his chunky reading glasses while writing copious notes by hand — a favorite ...
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