Alalapadu

Alalapadu

Alalapadu

Place in Sipaliwini District, Suriname

Alalapadu is a Tiriyó village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village was founded by Baptist[2] missionaries next to the Alalapadu Airstrip in order to concentrate the Tiriyó of the area in one central village.[3]

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History

In 1961 the missionary Claude Leavitt accompanied with a group of Wai-Wai Amerindians convinced the chief of the village Panapipa to settle into a modern village. The entire population moved in to what became known as Alalapadu.[4] Up to the 1970s, it was biggest Tiriyó village in Suriname.[2] Between 1976 and 1977, Alalapadu was mostly abandoned in favour of the new settlement of Kwamalasamutu, as the soils surrounding the village became depleted.[5] Alalapadu was never completely abandoned, however, and in 1999, some Tiriyó again permanently settled in the vicinity of the old village.[6] The new village is sometimes known as Alalapadu II.[7] Granman Ashongo had requested its rebuilding.[2]

Overview

There is no electricity. The economy is based small-scale farming. There is no school, and children have to go to boarding school in Kwamalasamutu. There is a Baptist church in the village. In 2017, a Brazil nut oil production facility opened in Alalapadu.[8]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Dorpen en Dorpsbesturen". Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden in Suriname (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  2. [2]
    "DORPSPLAN ALALAPADU 2011–2014" (PDF). Institute for Graduate Studies and Research via Kennis Bank (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
  3. [3]
    Wekker, Molendijk & Vernooij 1992, p. 42.
  4. [4]
    Mans & Carlin 2015, p. 94.
  5. [5]
    Wekker, Molendijk & Vernooij 1992, p. 43.
  6. [6]
    Heemskerk & Delvoye 2007, p. 32.
  7. [7]
    Mans 2012, p. 23.
  8. [8]
    "Oplevering Brazil nut olie productiefaciliteit te Alalapadu in Zuid-Suriname". Suriname Herald. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2018.

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