" . . . You cannot fight with a gun to win the battle — the gun fight is over — but your mouth and your power have to go to work for you. And we hope that we’re going to continue to do this, to have solid power and recognition in the community we call the Maroon community."

— André Pakosie, Ndjuka Maroon traditional health practitioner from Suriname now practicing in the Netherlands, 1992

Radio and television help disseminate Maroon perspectives and concerns among Maroon communities as well as to the world at large.

Young Aluku Maroon men preparing a broadcast at the television station they established and operate in the interior rainforest, Maripasoula, French Guiana, 1991.
Photograph by Diana Baird N’Diaye

Although children in the interior are learning about Suriname as a nation in their government-run schools, they have little opportunity to learn about Maroon cultural and political traditions.

School children in the Ndjuka village of Moitabiki, Suriname, 1990.
Courtesy of Thomas Polimé

"The children are just beginning to pay attention now, trying to get interested in what we’re doing; just very, very recently they’re trying to keep up our [Seminole Maroon] traditions."

—Ethel Warrior, Seminole Maroon elder and expert on Seminole culinary traditions, Brackettville, Texas, 1992

Art W. Dimery and family kiosk at Seminole Day Celebration, Brackettville, Texas, 1990.
Courtesy of Shirley Mock, The University of Texas Institute for Texan Cultures at San Antonio