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The Ndyuka people (also spelled 'Djuka') or Aukan people or Okanisi sama, are a Bushinengue ethnic group who live in Eastern Suriname and west of French Guiana and speak the Ndyuka language. They are subdivided into the ''Opu'', who live upstream of the Tapanahony River of southeastern Suriname, and the ''Bilo'', who live downstream of that river. They further subdivide themselves into fourteen matrilinear kinship groups called ''lo''. The Ndyuka and related people are of African descent, having been shipped as slaves to Suriname in the 17-18th century to work on Dutch-owned colonial plantations. Those who escaped fled deep into the rainforests where they established communities along rivers in mostly southeastern Suriname and parts of neighboring French Guiana and where their culture adopted elements of Native American cultures. It is rare for Ndyuka people to marry outside the group, "so they remain genetically close to their African ancestors."〔"Ndyuka Collection". Milwaukee Public Museum. (mpm.edu )〕 Thee Milwaukee Public Museum says the following about the Ndyuka and their way of life: On 10 October 1760, the Ndyuka signed a treaty with the Dutch colonizers,〔"The Ndyuka Treaty Of 1760: A Conversation with Granman Gazon." (culturalsurvival.org )〕 who allowed them territorial autonomy. 10 October is still a day celebrated among some Surinamese Maroons. In the last decades of the 20th century a large number of the Ndyuka people began moving from their ancestral villages to the coast, especially in and around Paramaribo, the country's capital. Their motivations for moving were mainly economic. ==People== *Gaanman Gazon, former head chief 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ndyuka people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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