Marijkedorp

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Marijkedorp
Wan Shi Sha
Village
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Marijkedorp
Location in Suriname
Coordinates: 5°30′25″N54°03′09″W / 5.507083°N 54.052556°W / 5.507083; -54.052556 Coordinates: 5°30′25″N54°03′09″W / 5.507083°N 54.052556°W / 5.507083; -54.052556
Country Flag of Suriname.svg Suriname
District Marowijne District
Resort Albina
Government
 • Captain Grace Watamaleo [1]
Population
 (2020) [1]
 • Total310

Marijkedorp (Lokono: Wan Shi Sha) is a village of indigenous Lokono people [1] in the Albina resort of the Marowijne District of Suriname. Grace Watamaleo has been the village captain since 2011. [2]

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In the 1970s, Albina and Marijkedorp started become a single urban area. [3] Marijkedorp is depended on Albina for education and healthcare. [4] The Lokono language has nearly disappeared from Marijkedorp and replaced by Dutch. In 2021, an initiative was launched to revitalise the language. [5]

Nature reserve

Marijkedorp and the village of Alfonsdorp are in an ongoing dispute over the Wanekreek Nature Reserve, as both consider it part of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds. [6] The reserve has not been inhabited since the 1950s. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dorpen en Dorpsbesturen". Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Ministerie van Regionale Ontwikkeling, Ambtelijke delegatie van Koksijde bezoekt Suriname, 1 februari 2011
  3. ↑ "Bewoners Marijkedorp stellen komitee in". Vrije Stem (in Dutch). 15 July 1977. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Plan Bureau 2014, p. Table 4.
  5. ↑ "Arowakse taal nieuw leven inblazen". Culturu (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ↑ Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden (October 2009). "Securing Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Conservation in Suriname" (PDF). Forest Peoples. p. 53. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  7. ↑ Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden (January 2008). "Nature Reserves within the Indigenous Territory of the Kaliña and Lokono Peoples of Lower Marowijne" (PDF). Forest Peoples. p. 4. Retrieved 22 February 2021.

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