Regional Autonomy in Nicaragua. A New Approach to the Indigenous Question in Latin America

Derived from earlier publications by the author listed below.

MISURASATA has mainly been a Miskitu organization and has to a certain degree neglected the interests of the Sumu and Rama peoples. The tiny Rama population has never constituted any active part of MISURASATA and the Sumu organization SUKAWALA has accused the Miskitu leadership of MISURASATA of being “racist in their attitudes towards the Sumu.”.

Wiggins Armstrong , Submission to the Working Group on Indigenous Populations at its 5th Session (Geneva: mimeo, 1987).

Misurasata , Treaty of Peace between the Republic of Nicaragua and the Indian Nations of Yapti Tasba (San José: mimeo, 1987).

According to the coordinator of the Autonomy Commission in the mining area, Luis Herrera, in oral communication with the author in Siuna, March 1987.

Gurdián Galio , “Autonomy Rights, National Unity and National Liberation: The Autonomy Project of the Sandinista Popular Revolution on the Atlantic Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua,” in CIDCA/Development Study Unit (eds) Ethnic Groups and the Nation State. The Case of the Atlantic Coast in Nicaragua (Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 1987), pp. 171–183.

FSLN, Programa historico del FSLN (Managua: DEPEP, 1984).

Barrios Jaime , “Revolutionary Nicaragua Tackles the Ethnic Question,” World Marxist Review, Vol. 30, No. 8, 1987, pp. 118–123.

Diaz Hector Polanco , La cuestión étnico-nacional (Mexico City: Editorial Linea, 1985).

Malkine Fern , “Interview with Russel Means,” Akwesasne Notes, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 19–22.

Bonfil Guillermo Batalla , “El Etnodesarrollo: Sus Premisas Juridicas, Politicas y de Organización,” in Aravena F. Rojas (ed) America Latina: Etnodesarrollo y Etnocidio (San José: Ediciones FLACSO, 1982), pp. 131–145.

Stavenhagen Rodolfo , “Ethnodevelopment: A Neglected Dimension in Development Thinking,” in SIM, Ethnic Violence, Development and Human Rights (Utrecht: SIM, 1985), pp. 15–42.

Op cit, note 4.