February 10, 2021 Last November, Jorge Gamarra Aguilar, an Indigenous Naso leader, was in lockdown in Panama due to the Covid-19 crisis when his phone began buzzing with messages. The news was out: the Naso had finally won the right to their ancestral land. “I could not go anywhere and despite being alone at home, I felt so happy sharing the news with people on WhatsApp,” says Gamarra. “The joy was immense for me. I have been part of this struggle and part of this process since 1980.” The Naso number some 4,000 people spread across dispersed communities along the forested banks of the Teribe River in western Panama, where they practice subsistence farming, fishing, and botanical medicine. The Naso are the Western Hemisphere’s last remaining monarchy.