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Abya Yala, which in the
''Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)''
Westpoint, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. . An anthology titled "Turtle Island to Abya Yala," featuring 60 Native American and Latina women artists and poets, had raised startup funding on
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Abya Yala, which in the Kuna language
The Kuna language (formerly Cuna, and in the language itself Guna), spoken by the Kuna people of Panama and Colombia, belongs to the Chibchan language family.
History
The Kuna were living in what is now Northern Colombia and the Darién Provin ...
means "land in its full maturity" or "land of vital blood", is the name used by the Native American Guna people
The Guna, are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. In the Guna language, they call themselves ''Dule'' or ''Tule'', meaning "people", and the name of the language is ''Dulegaya'', literally "people-mouth".
The term was in the language ...
who inhabit the geographic region called the Darién Gap
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, between what is now northwest Colombia
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and southeast Panama
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, to refer to the American continent
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Along with th ...
since Pre-Columbian times. The term is used by millions of Indigenous peoples of the American continent.
Origin and usage
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n Aymara
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leader Takir Mamani argues for the use of the term "Abya Yala" in the official declarations of indigenous peoples
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' governing bodies, saying that "placing foreign names on our villages, our cities, and our continents is equivalent to subjecting our identity to the will of our invaders and their heirs." Thus, use of the term "Abya Yala" rather than a term such as New World
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or America
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may have ideological implications indicating support for indigenous rights
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.
A publishing house in Ecuador
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, Editorial Abya Yala, chose its name according to Takir Mamani's suggestion. The name has also been used by an independent theater in Costa Rica
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, Teatro Abya Yala, and by a San Francisco video production and web design firm, Abya-Yala Productions.
A similar term referring to the northern part of the continent is Turtle Island, which is used by several Northeastern Woodland Native American tribes, especially the Haudenosaunee
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or Iroquois Confederacy, for part of the continent
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.Johansen, Bruce Elliott and Barbara Alice Mann, eds''Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)''
Westpoint, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. . An anthology titled "Turtle Island to Abya Yala," featuring 60 Native American and Latina women artists and poets, had raised startup funding on
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as of 2011.
The musical artists Combo Chimbita
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named their debut full length album ''Abya Yala''.
See also
*Guna Yala
Guna Yala, formerly known as San Blas, is a ''comarca indígena'' (indigenous province) in northeast Panama. Guna Yala is home to the indigenous people known as the Gunas. Its capital is Gaigirgordub. It is bounded on the north by the Cari ...
is the name of the autonomous Guna region in Panama.
* Turtle Island, a similar term referring to the continent of North America
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.
References
External links
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