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Since the first colonial encounter, Indigenous people have shared their unique systems of knowledge with colonial actors. Yet, their roles in colonial research and their contributions to Western science remain both obscured by the careers of their collaborators and segmented by the bounds of the disciplines they helped advance. This article is an attempt at reconstructing and recentering the life work of Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono man from the early-twentieth-century colony of Suriname who worked with Surinamese, Dutch, and international scholars, most notably, the Penard brothers (anthropology, zoology), De Goeje (linguistics, anthropology), Stahel (ethnobotany), and Abbenhuis (anthropology). At the same time, this in memoriam is a contribution to the study of science making in the colony, its actors, formats, methods, and conditions, written with the view to contextualizing its outcomes more broadly and stimulating new research into the roles that Indigenous people played in creating them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the impact that the Dutch language had on the Eastern Maroon Creole language in the Netherlands' colony of Suriname from the mid 17th century through the 20th century. The article discusses and compares the lexicon of the Dutch and Eastern Maroon languages. An overview of the influence of Sranantongo (Sranan language) on the Ndyuka dialect is provided. The Surinamese Maroon radio station Koyeba, including the Maroon, English and Dutch languages used in its radio broadcasts, are also discussed.

Dutch has been the official language of Suriname since 1667. For three centuries, until 1939, when the immigration of Javanese indentured labourers from the Dutch East Indies ended, migration to Suriname has been a forced one, in one way or another. Languages and cultures of migrants usually only survive when migrants live together in closed communities and adapt their culture to the new environment. This was the case in Suriname: a sizeable immigration, residential conglomerates and an adaptation of the dominant culture, albeit a forced one. In this article, I will present some historical notes to explain the present-day language situation of Suriname and the place of Dutch in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]