Text by Kevin Headley PARAMARIBO – The government’s policies and actions sometimes give the impression that Indigenous peoples in Suriname are given hardly any room to exist in accordance with their identity, rights, and way of life. Limited access to basic services and the ongoing procrastination regarding the actual recognition of collective land rights underscore this reality. “It felt as if we were becoming alienated from who we are and wher…
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Text by Kevin Headley PARAMARIBO – The government’s policies and actions sometimes give the impression that Indigenous peoples in Suriname are given hardly any room to exist in accordance with their identity, rights, and way of life. Limited access to basic services and the ongoing procrastination regarding the actual recognition of collective land rights underscore this reality. “It felt as if we were becoming alienated from who we are and wher…