PANAMA CITY, Panama – Like many of the elders in the Kuna indigenous population, Kinyapïler Johnson has noticed an “abrupt” change in the environment in recent years. On the Caribbean San Blas Islands ...

The old man sang in a quiet, melodic voice, his song floating on moist tropical air through the flimsy wall of a thatched palm frond hut. Enraptured, I stood listening on a narrow pathway that led to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ARCHIPELAGO SAN BLAS, Panama — I walked down a narrow, dusty path that would’ve been an alley if it wasn’t the main drag of this Kuna Indian village. Tiny ...

One of the traditional songs performed by the sahilas, or wise elders of Kuna Yala, compares their tribe's 365 tiny Caribbean islands, which are legally part of Panama but afforded a degree of ...