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Ngobe-Bugle Indians finish a 250-mile, two-week march across Panama Monday to demand an end to copper mining on their lands and a sovereign homeland. Wearing traditional dress and face paint, about 1,000 Ngobe-Bugle Indians walked from their homes in Cerro Colorado, 220 miles from Panama City, site of the world's 12th largest copper deposit. "This walk is to show that we want the Cerro Colorado mining contract annulled and our demand of an Indian territory accepted," activist Alberto Montezuma said. The Ngobe-Bugle Indians, the largest of Panama's six Indian groups, have been pressing for an Indian territory for 25 years.

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