This Nicaraguan native community endured Spanish conquest. Will it survive modern times?

A woman sells fish in Sutiaba, Nicaragua. (Tobias Eder / Flickr)

LEON, Nicaragua — On the outskirts of an indigenous neighborhood here stands a centuries-old tree called the “Great Tamarind.” The Spanish conquistadors hanged the community’s last native chief from it in 1610. That tree means a huge deal here in Sutiaba, where many locals still claim a proud, pure indigenous heritage. “The Great Tamarind symbolizes the…