Efforts to preserve Maleku culture in Costa Rica

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Only a few hundred people who identify fully as Maleku remain in Costa Rica, where much of the Indigenous population has been decimated and assimilated into the colonial Spanish culture. Naomi Prioleau reports on efforts to preserve the Maleku language, traditions and identity.

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