{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Santigron |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = town |motto = |image_skyline = Santigron pleng, African Culture in Suriname.jpg |imagesize = 250px |image_caption = Rum is poured out in an ancestor ritual |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |pushpin_map = Suriname |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_mapsize = 300 |pushpin_map_caption = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Suriname}} |subdivision_type1 = District |subdivision_name1 = Wanica District |subdivision_type2 = Resorts |subdivision_name2 = Lelydorp |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = |established_date = |area_magnitude = |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = <ref name="arena">{{Cite web|url=http://www.vakantiearena.nl/suriname/pad-van-wanica|title=Pad van Wanica|access-date=29 May 2020|language=nl|website=Vakantie Arena}}</ref> |population_note = |population_total = ~1,000 |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone = AST |utc_offset = -3 |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|5|40|38|N|55|20|25|W|display=title,inline|region:SR_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}} |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |elevation_ft = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Santigron''' is a Maroon village in Lelydorp, Suriname. The village of Santigron is along the Saramacca River not far from Paramaribo. It is one of Suriname's Maroon villages, where descendants of 18th Century run-away slaves live. Unlike in Brazil or Jamaica, some 20,000 Maroons are still living in Suriname 's rainforest and retain many aspects of their traditional Afro-American culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hart.amsterdam/nl/page/807628/santigron|title=Santigron|website=Hart.Amsterdam|access-date=20 May 2020|language=nl}}</ref> The village was founded by Jajasie Adoemakeë in the middle of the 19th century. Adoemakeë started working at a nearby wood plantation, and claimed to have received ownership after the plantation owner died in 1861, however the deed was lost.<ref name="arena"/>
The village has a mixed population of the Ndyuka, Saramaka, and Matawai tribes. In the late 19th century, the village was a stronghold of the ''Gaan Gadu'' (Great God) religion which rapidly spread to the creole and maroon communities.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Bonno Thoden van Velzen|year=1978|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/52/1/article-p81_7.xml|title=The Origins of the Gaan Gadu Movement of the Bush Negroes of Surinam|journal=New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids|series=Nieuwe West-Indische Gids|volume=52: Issue 1|page=82|doi=10.1163/22134360-90002159|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBAI_WbrV2o 2013 video of village]
Category:Maroon settlements Category:Populated places in Wanica District
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