The Akurioes were the last Amerindians in Suriname who had a nomadic
life, and nowadays they have settled in one of the Trio's villages. The
Wajanas and Trioes have been influenced by the Christian mission from the
US since the sixties in the previous century. The coastal Amerindians were
Christainized earlier. Compared with other Christian missions the Roman
Catholic Church had more respect for their own Amerindian Culture.
External influences are observed within the materialistic culture,
among others the change in dress, culinary, hunting, building roofs with
corrugated steel, whilst the silence in the villages is disturbed by
western music.
