#Repost @stephaniestrasburg. Link to story in our bio. ・・・ Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's series of shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road on Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from the new bed of the Brokopondo Reservoir, pushing those thousands of residents into the farming and hunting areas of other Saamakans. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live, that is a major part of our life and we need land for that," said Martines, as translated by Debora Linga. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." More: newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/suriname/descendants I will be posting some photos from "The land Alcoa dammed," and investigative piece for @pulitzercenter and @pittsburghpg that looks at Alcoa's exit from Suriname after a centu...