49 d. the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community is formed by more than six hundred persons; 17 e. the members of the Community subsist on the basis of family farming and communal agriculture, fruit gathering and medicinal plants, hunting and fishing. These activities, as well as the use and enjoyment of the land they inhabit, are carried out within a territorial space in accordance with a traditional collective form of organization;18 f. there are “overlaps” or superpositions of communal lands claimed by the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast. Some communities allege rights over the same lands claimed by the Awas Tingni Community;19 furthermore, the State MARENA, and Alejandro Láinez, Director of the National Forestry Administration of MARENA; and decision No. 163 of October 14, 1998 by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice on the amparo remedy filed by María Luisa Acosta Castellón, as legal representative of Benevicto Salomón Mclean, Siriaco Castillo Fenley, Orlando Salomón Felipe and Jotam López Espinoza, an their own behalf and as Syndic, Coordinator, Town Judge, and Person Responsible for the Forest, respectively, of the Awas Tingni Community, against Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, Roberto Araquistain, General Director of the National Forestry Service of MARENA, Jorge Brooks Saldaña, Director of the State Forestry Administration of MARENA, and Efraín Osejo et al., members of the Board of Directors of the Regional Council of the RAAN. 17 cfr. March, 1996 brief requesting “official recognition and demarcation of ancestral lands” of the Mayagna Awas Tingni Community, addressed to the Regional Council of the RAAN; judgment No. 163 of October 14, 1998 by the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua, on the amparo remedy filed by María Luisa Acosta Castellón, representing Benevicto Salomón Mclean, Siriaco Castillo Fenley, Orlando Salomón Felipe and Jotam López Espinoza, in their own name and as Syndic, Coordinator, Town Judge and Person Responsible for the Forest, respectively, in the Awas Tingni Community, against Roberto Stadhagen Vogl, Minister of MARENA, Roberto Araquistain, General Director of the National Forestry Service of MARENA, Jorge Brooks Saldaña, Director of the State Forestry Administration of MARENA, and Efraín Osejo et al., members of the Board of Directors of the Regional Council of the RAAN; document “Awas Tingni. An Ethnographic Study of the Community and its Territory. 1999 Report”, prepared by the Awas Tingni Territorial Demarcation Project, main researcher: Theodore Macdonald; official letter DSDG-RMS-02-Crono-014-10-98 of October 8, 1998, by Rosario Meza Soto, Deputy General Director of the National Institute of Statistics and the Census (INEC), to Fernando Robleto Lang, Secretary of the Presidency; document “Annex A Research Universe”; testimony by Charly Webster Mclean Cornelio before the Inter-American Court on November 16, 2000; January, 1994 document “Territorial Rights of the Awas Tingni Indigenous Community” prepared by the University of Iowa as part of its “Project in Support of the Awas Tingni Community”; and “General Census of the Awas Tingni Community” for the year 1994. 18 cfr. testimony of Charly Webster Mclean Cornelio before the Inter-American Court on November 16, 2000; testimony of Jaime Castillo Felipe before the Inter-American Court on November 16, 2000; testimony of Theodore Macdonald Jr. before the Inter-American Court on November 16, 2000; January, 1994 document “Territorial Rights of the Awas Tingni Indigenous Community”, prepared by the University of Iowa as part of its “Project in Support of the Awas Tingni Community”; and document “Awas Tingni. An Ethnographic Study of the Community and its Territory. 1999 Report”, prepared by the Awas Tingni Territorial Demarcation Project, main researcher: Theodore Macdonald. 19 cfr. “General diagnostic study on land tenure in the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast”, Final Report and General Framework, March 1998, prepared by the Central American and Caribbean Research Council; August, 1998 maps and projection on location of indigenous area in the Nicaraguan national territory of the RAAN, prepared by the Office of the Director of Geodesics and Cartography of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (INETER); July, 1996 document “Land, Natural Resources and Indigenous Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Juridical Reflections on the Definition of a Strategy for Indian Participation in Participation and Development Projects, prepared by The World Bank, Technical Department Latin America & the Caribbean; October 13, 1998 brief by Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo, President of the Republic of Nicaragua, to Noel Pereira Majano, Secretary of the National Assembly; October 13, 1998 bill “Organic Law to Regulate the Communal Property System of the Indigenous Communities of the Atlantic Coast and BOSAWAS”; testimony of Galio Claudio Enrique Gurdián Gurdián before the Inter-American Court on November 17, 2000; testimony of Charles Rice Hale before the Inter-American Court on November 17, 2000; testimony of Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena before the Inter-American Court on November 17, 2000; September 12, 1998 brief by Roberto Wilson