Warrior cultivators of the cloud-forest gorges of Tierradentro, whose deep painted tombs and century-long guerrilla resistance made the central cordillera all but ungovernable for Spain.
Allied with La Gaitana's upper-Magdalena rising of 1539, then resisted for nearly a century before securing colonial-era resguardos; today some 200,000 Nasa hold reserves across Cauca and Huila and field the unarmed Indigenous Guard.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Nasa (Páez) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1537 · 1538 · 1611.
Rappaport's study of Nasa (Páez) historical memory and resistance in Tierradentro and Cauca.
Rappaport's Andean ethnography of history, deeply rooted in the Nasa world.