Juan Tapias

Visual Storyteller & Documentary Photographer - Architect
       
Threatened ancestral culture
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Threatened ancestral culture
Copyright Juan Tapias 2024
Updated Jun 2023
Topics Architecture, Climate Change, Community, Conservation, Culture stories, Documentary, Environment, Feature, Historical, History, Human Rights, Journalism, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Race, Social Justice, Travel
Summary
For decades, the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have faced numerous challenges and problems, including forced displacement due to the armed conflict in Colombia. The armed conflict in Colombia involves various armed groups, including guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the Colombian army, and has caused serious impacts on indigenous communities throughout the country.
The eternal resistance of an ancient people
Colombia 2020

 The Kogui indigenous peoples are an ethnic group that lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in Colombia. They are part of the four main ethnic groups that inhabit this mountainous region, along with the Arhuaco, the Wiwa and the Kankuamo.

For decades, the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta have faced numerous challenges and problems, including forced displacement due to the armed conflict in Colombia. The armed conflict in Colombia involves various armed groups, including guerrillas, paramilitaries, and the Colombian army, and has caused serious impacts on indigenous communities throughout the country.
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