Naso people
Naso (also Teribe, Naso - Teribe, Tjer - di, Tiribi, Tirribi, Térraba, Terraba, Nortenyo or Quequexque ) is the name of an indigenous people in Central America.
The Naso are one of Panama's total of eight Native American tribes. Their settlement area is in the northwest of Panama, especially in the west of the province of Bocas del Toro, in an area of approximately 1,300 square kilometers, which covers a large part of the basin of the rivers Río Teribe and San San. While SIL International indicated the population of the Naso in Panama in 1996, 3000, resulted in a census in 2000, only a total of 1853 Naso under Panama's population. Several hundred Naso still living in Costa Rica. It is one of the last American tribes which are still run by a monarch. The Naso are threatened with extinction.
Politics and Administration
The tribe is ruled by a king. The throne passes traditionally over the king's brother and the eldest son of the late King. When a royal family is completely extinguished, takes place in the main settlement on the Río Sieyik Teribe held an election to a new king ( or in some cases a new queen, as in the case of Rufina Santana ) to be determined.
While the tribes in Panama have semi-autonomous self-rule areas, so-called Comarcas with its own executive, for years there is a design for a 130,000 -acre comarca for the Naso Panamanian on ice.
History
Previously colonized the Naso the Caribbean coast near the port city of Almirante. The ancestors of the Naso met the privateer Henry Morgan, and Christopher Columbus reported by these " people of the Atlantic coast " with golden necklace. After centuries of struggle with Spanish, English and all the tribes of the region they moved in the 19th century in the highly remote areas of the Talamanca Cordillera, from where they later moved to their present settlements along the major rivers.
In May 2008, the tribe deposed its king, as he allowed a company to build the hydroelectric plant El Diquis for £ 25 million. The tribal assembly continued his uncle, Valentin Santana, a king. Police forces prevented outbreaks of violence, when the king was exiled with his followers.
The construction work on the river Bonyic began in 2004. Colombian Empresas Publicas de Medellin was clearing the jungle and build roads. The government, which signed the contract with the old king, the new therefore does not recognize.
List of Kings
- Bass Lee Santana
- Santiago Santana
- Santiago Santana ( son )
- Chalee Santana
- Francisco Santana
- Lázaro Santana - ( - 1973)
- Simeón Santana - (1973 - 1979)
- Manuel Aguilar - (1979 - April 25, 1982 )
- Rufina Santana - ( April 25, 1982 - July 30, 1988)
- César Santana - ( July 30, 1988 - May 31, 1998)
- Tito Santana - (31 May 1998 - May 2008, discontinued )
- Valentin Santana - (since May 2008)
Population
In eleven settlements in the main settlement area live about 2,343 residents:
- At Río Teribe: Bonyic, Kuikin, Santa Rosa, Sieyik, Sieyikin, Solón and Sori.
- At San San: Drury, La Tigra, Loma Bandera and San San
- Settlements in other areas: Charagre and Yorkin.
Outside their territory live according to estimates, especially in the city of Changuinola, approximately 1,000 members of this tribe, and up to 300 more in Costa Rica.
Culture
The Naso living from agriculture and fishing. In the fields and in the forest they harvest fruits such as bananas, pineapple, soursop, Goyaba, Orange, Jabo and plane trees, corn, rice, cocoa, and coffee Pixbae. Be hunted including the Saino, a South American Wildschweinart, the Goldaguti, the Paca and birds such as the trumpeter bird or the toucan. The many rivers also offer fish as a food source.
The craft of Naso consists of the manufacture of baskets and the processing of wood for spears, canoes and houses. Their houses are built on stilts to protect against unwanted visitors at night from the forest. A narrow ladder leads to the covered with woven palm leaves wooden hut.
They speak Teribe and most also speak Spanish. Some profess Catholicism, but traditionally they worship SBOE as the supreme God and Creator. They also worship the Río Teribe. The majority of Naso live in wooden huts covered with leaves.