Category Archives: Cultural Focus

A story, tradition or description relating to a particular group of people

Cultural Focus: Panama’s Embera Indians

Embera woman with her pet kinkajou Not far from the Panama Canal, in the lush rainforest interior of Panama’s Chagres National Park, a young boy wearing nothing but an orange loincloth sits daydreaming while his mother carefully paints long dark lines on his light brown skin. With black stained fingers, she dips bamboo into a...

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