The town, San Francisco de Térraba, was founded in 1689. Its name was later shortened to Térraba. 1761 The northern Indians attacked San Francisco de Térraba, burning it, killing the men and capturing the women, a day after an attack on Cabagra, another local indigenous group. After the massacre, Térraba only had 300 people left. 1845-1848 After a church was burned, the Catholic priests decided that reducing the territory would conserve and protect the population. Within several years Pauline priests arrived to take over the Térraba community, but brought smallpox. The epidemic decimated the population. 1956-1977 Legislation to establish and protect the indigenous territories gave the Térraba the inalienable right to their traditional land, the use of their resources and some autonomy in self-governance. 1970s Costa Rica began promoting clearing forests to convert them to agricultural and pastoral lands. Much of the Térraba’s forest was lost. 1982 The Térraba lost the right to own the minerals beneath the soil on their own land, under a new mining law. 1999 Costa Rica recognized indigenous languages in its constitution. 2002 Indigenous communities began protesting against the Diquís Hydroelectric Project, which was then known as the Boruca Hydroelectric Project. 2004 The title to the territory was amended and reduced without asking the Térraba, fragmenting the territory into blocks. 2007 Diquís project workers moved to the region and started work without consulting the Térraba community. 2009 On Oct. 6, more than 150 Térraba and others marched along the inter-American highway to demand respect for their right to participate in decisions involving their lands. They marched all the way to the town of Buenos Aires, more than 8 miles (13 kilometers) from Térraba territory. ICE employees filmed and shouted at them in Buenos Aires, causing a confrontation that required police intervention. 2011 The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad – ICE) removed their equipment and suspended work in Térraba territory. Economy The Naso, who now live in the province of Bocas del Toro, Panama, are for the most part very poor subsistence farmers who supplement their earnings with the sale of the agricultural products (cocoa, oranges, plantains, etc.), animals (pigs, chickens, ducks, etc.), lumber (Cordia alliodora, Cedrela odorata, etc.) and some handicrafts which they transport to the relatively nearby city of Changuinola (population 30,000, two hours down river by raft or dugout canoe). While the Naso are isolated in geographic terms and receive