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	Kuna Yala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuna Yala is an autonomous territory or comarca in Panama, inhabited by the Kuna indigenous people.
		The autonomous status of the Kuna was officially recognized in 1930 in response to political pressure by Kuna leaders.
		In April 2003, a meeting of representatives of the 68 Kuna communities in the three comarcas of Kuna Yala, Kuna de Madugandí, and Kuna de Wargandí, declared their desire to unite the three comarcas and were reprimanded by the Moscoso administration.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Kuna_Yala (410 words)

	Kuna (currency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kuna is the name of the currency used in Croatia.
		The kuna was introduced in June 1994 after the transitional period following Croatian independence in the early 1990s during which the Yugoslav dinar was replaced with a Croatian dinar.
		The kuna is handled by the Croatian National Bank and minted by the Croatian Monetary Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuna_(currency) (198 words)

	Sam Kuna, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuna joined the Division in September 1999 and is a member of the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology.
		Dr. Kuna's primary academic goal is to develop an outstanding research program based in his animal research concerning motor control to the upper airway and his clinical research in the pathogenesis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
		Kuna has been very active in the American Thoracic Society and from 1997-1999 was chair of that society's Respiratory Neurobiology and Sleep Assembly as well as a member of the American Thoracic Society's Board of Directors.
	www.uphs.upenn.edu /sleepctr/faculty/Kuna.htm (559 words)

	Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
		KUNA began its Arabic language news service within Kuwait on March 11, 1978, transmitting for six hours a day in two shifts, in the morning and the evening.
		Kuna is an active and effective member in the Arab News Agencies Federation and the Gulf News Agency, supplementing its broadcasting services, with booklets on political and economic research and national issues.
		KUNA has full-time correspondents stationed in Muscat, Madrid, Sarajevo and Tehran, and part-time correspondents in Algiers, Doha, Islamabad, Khartoum and Vienna.
	www.kuwait-info.com /sidepages/media_kuna.asp (401 words)

	Kuna (currency) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuna is the name of the (The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used) currency used in (A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991) Croatia.
		The kuna was introduced in June 1994 after the transitional period following Croatian independence in the early 1990s during which the (A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia) Yugoslav (The basic unit of money in Algeria) dinar was replaced with a Croatian dinar.
		The kuna is handled by the (Click link for more info and facts about Croatian National Bank) Croatian National Bank and minted by the Croatian Monetary Institute.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kuna_(currency).htm (598 words)

	UNM - Quantum 2003 - The Art and Life of the Kuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kuna Indians live in the Comarca de Kuna Yala, in a region along the Caribbean coast of Panama including a group of 360 tiny islands, called the San Blas, and a strip of coastal land.
		The Kuna believe that the more outsiders understand Kuna culture, environment and history, the more likely it is that they will support Kuna efforts to maintain their cultural and political autonomy.
		She is one of the founders of the new Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at UNM and is co-principal investigator of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant that established the center.
	www.unm.edu /~quantum/quantum_2003/kuna.html (1303 words)

	Features of Kuna Banknotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first versions of the kuna banknotes were issued in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000, and bear the issue date of October 31, 1993.
		Every denomination of kuna banknote has a characteristically positioned watermark built in, the colorless print of which is identical to the portrait given on the banknote.
		All kuna banknotes have in the central part of the obverse a square printed with the crest of the Republic of Croatia.
	www.hnb.hr /novcan/eobljnov.htm (728 words)

	Focus On Panama - The Kuna Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many Kuna were killed in warfare or by European diseases, and the Spanish used harsh measures in extracting tribute and labor from the indigenous populations.
		The Kuna in the twentieth century are undergoing a population increase, and, although remaining somewhat outside the mainstream of Panamanian society, they are increasingly influenced by Western culture.
		Knowledge of Kuna tradition is still an important determinant of status and is the basis on which village chiefs are elected by the adult men to lifetime terms.
	www.coralys.com /panama/Default.aspx?id=AR-SanBlasSwanson (1266 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Sherzer, Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians
		The Kuna Indians, probably best known for their molas--colorful appliqué and reverse appliqué blouses made and worn by Kuna women and sold all over the world--are one of the largest indigenous groups in the South American tropics.
		The Kuna feel that their future as well as their past are expressed in these myths, stories, chants, and songs, which are both simple and profound, reflections of tradition as well as models for times to come.
		Kuna vocabulary is characterized by extreme variety and subtlety, reflecting and expressing the ideational, ecological, material, metaphorical, and sociolinguistic worlds of the Kuna.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exshesto.html (2571 words)

	Panama's Kuna and the Perils of Modernity - National Zoo\| FONZ
		I would discover that the Kuna indeed have boundless respect for all living creatures surrounding them, and that their knowledge of plants and animals is tremendous.
		No one who is not Kuna may own land or resources in Kuna Yala.” The Kuna set aside nearly 400 square miles of virgin rainforest and coral reefs in adjacent waters for management and strict supervision, becoming the first indigenous group in Latin America to manage a protected area.
		The Kuna were supposed to manage the project, using their traditional knowledge of the ecology to ensure the reserve was functioning.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/2001/6/panamaskuna.cfm (3224 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Tice, Kuna Crafts, Gender, and the Global Economy
		The Kuna are internationally known for their grass-roots, innovative approaches to the economic development of the San Blas region.
		Kuna women's contributions to this process, although recognized locally, have been mostly ignored by economic development planners at the regional and national levels and even by other indigenous groups seeking to learn from the Kuna.
		Whereas much of the literature at that time argued that, with a shift from a subsistence-based to a primarily cash-based economy, women, particularly women living in egalitarian-based societies such as the Kuna's, lost their former access to resources, this did not appear to be true for Kuna women.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/extickun.html (2103 words)

	The Art Of BEING Kuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kuna Indians are indigenous to Panama and may well be the remaining vestige of the Carib strain that once inhabited the north coasts of South America and parts of the Caribbean.
		The major portion of the Kuna reside in 52 island and 10 mainland communities along the Caribbean coast of Panama.
		The Kuna are a matriarchal society in which the line of inheritance passes through the women.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/CZAngelsSpace/KunaYala.html (370 words)

	Defending Kuna Yala
		Kuna Yala is framed by the Continental Divide of the Serranía de San Blas to the south and the Caribbean Sea to the North, and the Kuna control the entire watershed.
		Not only were the Kuna in Panama City taking an interest in environmental matters, concern in the communities of Kuna Yala over the disappearance of sea turtles and lobsters and the decline in fish populations and the degradation of coral reefs was now being cast for the first time in the language of Western science.
		Kuna society as a whole attributed less importance to the Management Plan as a means of defending their territory, and the plan was never completed.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/aam/panama/panama.html (12290 words)

	The Kuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kuna have a population of around 47,000 members.
		Records indicate that the Kuna fled to the mountains of the Darien region to escape the Conquistadors during the 1500s.
		In 1938, after a long struggle, the Comarca of San Blas (Kuna Yala), a semi-autonomous territory, was recognized by the Panamanian Government.
	molastore.com /kuinin.html (311 words)

	The Kuna meet the peoples of the world
		Kuna Yala includes about 300 Caribbean islands as well as the long strip of rain forest on the neighboring mainland.
		But it can be dangerous at night, which is why the Kuna say most of their ancestors moved to the islands beginning in the mid-19th Century.
		Kuna girls wear their hair long until puberty, when it's cut off at a special village ceremony.
	www.freep.com /yak/people/people27e_20050127.htm (1054 words)

	Thorup...Kuna Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kuna Indians are a strongly-knit tribal society living on a chain of islands called San Blas Archipelago, on the Atlantic side of the Republic of Panama.
		The Kuna have a custom for every event and happening in their life and these customs are passed on to their children through dances and chants.
		The Kuna language (until recently, unwritten) is spoken throughout the community, however, Spanish is fast becoming the second language.
	www.thorup.com /cuna.html (451 words)

	Sastra Jawa Kuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wiryamartana, Arjunawiwaha; Transformasi teks Jawa Kuna lewat tanaggapan Jan penciptaan di lingkungan sastra Jawa (Yogyakarta: Duta Wacana University Press...
		Sastra Jawa Kuna kurang luwih ditulis dikira-kira wiwit abad ping 9 Masehi ngantii abad ping 14 Masehi, diwiwiti karo Prasasti Sukabumi.
		Daftar Karya Sastra Jawa Kuna sing wujude tembang (kakawin)
	javanese.encyclopedia.st /Sastra_Jawa_Kuna (147 words)

	About the Kuna Indians
		The Kuna are an Indian tribe in Panama.
		The Kuna number approximately about 35,000 the majority living in the San Blas Islands, and on the mailand in the Madungandi reservation, while a small percentage like in the capital city, Panama.
		Kuna women also paint their faces with a homemade rouge made from achiote seeds.
	public.cwp.net.pa /~bowerman/page3.html (439 words)

	Kuna, Idaho Real Estate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuna is a growing community in the Boise Metro Area.
		Kuna is a progressive community and supported by an active Chamber of Commerce, a sense of community pride, and a high level of citizen involvement.
		Kuna's water supply is derived from deep well and our wastewater system is an EPA award-winning lagoon system.
	www1.relocate-america.com /states/id/cities/kuna.htm (342 words)

	Home Page
		Kuna is the Gateway City to the Birds of Prey National Habitat Area and is the forefront of the Western Heritage Byways Project.
		Kuna is a community of approximately 9,800 residents, rooted as an agricultural area that is a rapidly growing progressive community, supported by an active Chamber of Commerce, a sense of community pride, and a high level of citizen involvement.
		Kuna welcomes you and invites you to join the city in helping make Kuna an even better place to live and work.
	www.cityofkuna.com (211 words)

	Molas: reverse applique textiles of the Kuna Indian - San Blas Islands (Kuna Yala) Panama
		The mola is the signature craft of the Kuna Indian women of Panama.
		The Kuna Indians live in Kuna Yala, known commonly in the dominant culture as the San Blas Islands, an archipelago of more than 300 islands on Panama’s north coast.
		Although mola is the Kuna word for blouse, the word most often refers to the front and back panels of the traditional blouses worn by Kuna women.
	www.crossroadstrade.com /molas.htm (291 words)

	Wycliffe - Features - Kuna Composition - Spring 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ministry in the Border Kuna area suffered a tragic setback when three NTM men were kidnapped from a Kuna village on January 31, 1993.
		During a brief cruise stop at a Kuna village on one of the atolls, a Christian passenger was impressed with the need for the New Testament to be available on audio cassettes.
		Continuing their three-year commitment to the Kuna people, the GBA paid for a set of the audio New Testament for each of the 30 Kuna churches.
	www.wycliffe.org /features/IOW271-4.htm (1003 words)

	San Diego Museum of Man - The Art of Being Kuna
		The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama, is a major traveling exhibition that presents a view of the Kuna culture as seen through its expressive arts: the Kuna's central concern for form and beauty in everyday life, narratives, rituals, healing, and visual arts such as Kuna women's molas (textiles).
		The Kuna are world-renowned for their molas, the colorful and richly decorated appliqué blouses made by Kuna women.
		Kuna identity, however, comprises a remarkably wide range of distinctive visual and verbal modes of expression, all informed by a dynamic and sophisticated system of aesthetic values.
	www.museumofman.org /html/exhibits_kuna.html (1077 words)

	Molas: Textile Art of the Kuna
		Molas are works of art created by the women of the Central American Cuna (or Kuna) tribe, of the San Blas Islands in Panama.
		See how molas are sewn into the blouse of the Kuna women and girls.
		Mola Market Place Kuna women have made their brightly colored and strikingly unique blouse panels for more than 100 years.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/molas.htm (474 words)

	Native Lands - Kuna Mapping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since May 2000, Native Lands has been working with the Kuna General Congress, which is the maximum authority of the Kuna people, to map the Kuna homeland, the Comarca of Kuna Yala.
		Combining the Kuna’s traditional knowledge of the region and the Institute’s cartographic expertise, the maps are innovative in that they combine mainland and marine features, including coral reefs, cays, sea grass pasture, fishing areas, and turtle nesting sites.
		These maps will help the Kuna resolve boundary problems at the far east and west ends of the Comarca, provide a basis for sustainable development projects, consolidate the region politically, and document valuable cultural and historical information in the schools.
	www.nativelands.org /bin/view.fpl/41003.html (456 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Kuna & their Mola
		A book for children on the Kuna and their molas, illustrated with many color photographs of molas.
		A Kuna legend for children, in English and Spanish.
		The Art of Being Kuna: Layers of Meaning Among the Kuna of Panama.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmai/kunamola.htm (363 words)

	Kuna News
		The body of an adult white male was discovered in Lake Pend Oreille on Saturday in the same area where a canoeist vanished this summer.
		Two Nampa brothers were arrested in Kuna after an altercation, one accused of stabbing a man with a pocket knife.
		The fate of Kuna Senator Jack Noble now lies in the hands of his fellow senators.
	www.topix.net /city/kuna-id (1037 words)

	Kuna - Kuna 's Online Newsletter
		Kuna Schools' first annual walk-a-thon has been posponed until September.
		Parents bring your kids ages 3-5 to the Kuna Library for a half hour of creative fun.
		PLUS...Each month, beginning the week of February 20th we'll post a photo of someone's vehicle with a Kuna bumper sticker and the owner of that vehicle will win their choice of two movie tickets or a T-shirt.
	ilovekuna.com (998 words)

	Kunas in Panama
		The best-preserved of all of the indigenous cultures of the Americas, the Kuna Indians are so determined to protect their heritage and the environment.
		Reaching the Kunas of Mandungandi - Reaching the Kunas of Mandungandi - General Information, about their family and ministry, photo gallery, about the kuna Indians, how to get Involved.
		The Kuna Indians - The Kuna Indians - The Kuna Indians are a strongly-knit tribal society living on a chain of islands called San Blas Archipelago, on the Atlantic side of the Republic of Panama...
	www.escapeartist.com /panama/kuna.html (533 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Central America: Panama: Society and Culture: Kuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuna Yala or Dulenega - Overview of history and culture, with a few stories and poems, in English.
		Reaching the Kuna of Mandungandi - A US Christian Missionary family in Panama City describes their outreach to the village of Aquas Claras.
		Panama: Kuna Tribe and Ecotourism - Trade Environment Database (TED) report discusses Kuna history and culture, physical characteristics of Kuna Yala, and impacts of tourism, with bibliography.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Central_America/Panama/Society_and_Culture/Kuna (299 words)

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