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Mythologies of the Bang Kloi Tribes

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Bang Kloi Khuen Thin (“Bangkok Returns Home”), a group of community members campaigning for their right to return to their traditional way of life, issued a statement on 22 August calling for the new government to allow them to return to Chai Phaen Din as soon as possible. They noted that the independent committee formed to investigate and solve the community rights issues they face agreed that they should be allowed to do so, and called for encroachment charges brought against community members who decided to return to Chai Phaen Din in 2021 to be dropped.  The group is demanding a public apology from the new government for the violence and discrimination committed against indigenous communities by the authorities.  They also ask that those responsible for the abduction and murder of Bang Kloi Community rights activist Porlajee Rakchongcharoen to be prosecuted. To open the door to solving community rights issues, they further propose that the new government acknowledge to th...
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Mythologies of the Chachapoya Tribe

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The Chachapoyas , also called the "Warriors of the Clouds," were a culture of the Andes living in the cloud forests of the southern part of the Department of Amazonas of present-day Peru . The Inca Empire conquered their civilization shortly before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. At the time of the arrival of the conquistadores , the Chachapoyas were one of the many nations ruled by the Incas, although their incorporation had been difficult due to their constant resistance to Inca troops.  Since the Incas and conquistadors were the principal sources of information on the Chachapoyas, little first-hand or contrasting knowledge of the Chachapoyas has been found. Writings by the major chroniclers of the time, such as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , were based on fragmentary, second-hand accounts. Much of what is known about the Chachapoya culture is based on archaeological evidence from ruins, pottery, tombs, and other artifacts. Spanish chronicler Pedro Cieza de Le...
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Mythologies of the Naso (Teribe) Tribes

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The Naso or Teribe tribe (also Tjër Di ) are an Indigenous people of Panama and Costa Rica . They primarily live in northwest Panama in the Bocas del Toro Province and Naso Tjër Di Comarca as well as in southern Costa Rica in the Puntarenas Province . There are roughly 3,500 people who belong to the Naso tribe. It is one of the few Indigenous groups or tribes that continues to have a monarchy .  The Naso people have traditionally occupied the mountainous jungle regions of western Bocas del Toro where they continue to identify with the lands along the river that became known in the Spanish speaking world as the Teribe or Tjër Di in Naso. ‘Di’ means ‘water’ and 'Tjër' is their mythical “Grand-Mother” who was endowed by God with the secrets of botanical medicine.  Until as recently as three or four generations ago the Naso people led a remarkably autonomous existence. Dispersed among their clans and homesteads, and geographically isolated from most of the world, the Naso ...
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