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An Embera girl steps out of the one-room classroom in her village in Chagres National Park. The children are taught grades 1 through 6 in the village and then often go on to high school, taking a dugout canoe to a nearby community.
A foot in TWO WORLDS
Giggling, two young boys in red loincloths swim in the river, their dark hair and brown skin slick with water. They scramble onto the bow of a paragua — dugout canoe — as we idle to the shore in a motorized version of the same thing.
On land stand a dozen ...
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