Kuna Indigenous People: Community Conservation Resilience Initiative in Panama
Report from the CCRI Workshop in Panama The Kuna are indigenous peoples who reside in different parts of Panama and the north of Colombia but most of them live in the Indigenous Region of Kuna Yala, many in small and scattered islands. In 1925 and after the Kuna Revolution, the Panamanian government recognised their rights to self-governance and autonomy to manage their lands and territories, this being a quite unique situation among indigenous peoples in Latin America. As the Saglas (the …
