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USTUPU, Panama – With wooden rifles and the explosion of firecrackers, members of Panama's Guna indigenous group re-enacted an uprising by their ancestors against abuses and the repression of their ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Discover Panama's Rich Culture
Panama is a meeting point and a "mosaic of cultures," where the country's cultures coexist, maintaining their own values, beliefs and principles as well as their identity. There are seven indigenous ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Panamanian tribe to be relocated from coastal island due to climate change: "There's no other option"
For hundreds of years, the ocean has protected the Guna Yala culture on Cardi Sugdub, or Crab Island, located off the coast of Panama. On the island, every square inch is occupied by about a thousand ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Nike ditches shoe design after Panama’s indigenous Guna protest
US sportswear giant Nike said Tuesday it was withdrawing its latest shoe after Panama's indigenous Guna community accused it of "pirating" a protected traditional design. Lawyers for the Guna said the ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Between the forest and the sea: life and climate change in Guna Yala – Part I
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 ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Threatened by rising seas, the first of Panama’s Indigenous islanders are forced to leave
Gardi Sugdub, Panama — On the densely packed island of Gardi Sugdub, off the coast of mainland Panama, colorful houses and wooden huts cover nearly the entire landscape almost up to the water’s edge.
News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Explore the indigenous Guna kingdom of Panama with local guides and return to the Scottish Darien scheme site
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News Panama » Guna Yala » Culture: Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community
The government of Panama continues to delay the process of relocating almost 1,300 Indigenous Guna inhabitants from an island experiencing rising sea levels due to climate change. The lack of space on ...