Assertion: maroon | /r/HasProperty | about 15% of the population
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text: In French Guiana and Suriname (where maroons account for about 15% of the population), escaped enslaved people, or Bushinengues, fled to the interior and joined with indigenous peoples and created several independent tribes, among them the Saramaka, the Paramaka, the Ndyuka (Aukan), the Kwinti, the Aluku (Boni), and the Matawai.
text: In French Guiana and Suriname (where maroons account for about 15% of the population), escaped enslaved people, or Bushinengues, fled to the interior and joined with indigenous peoples and created several independent tribes, among them the Saramaka, the Paramaka, the Ndyuka (Aukan), the Kwinti, the Aluku (Boni), and the Matawai.