Tama

The Tama were an indigenous people of the Caguán river basin in present-day Colombia. They cultivated crops in clearings and resisted Spanish incursions into the upper Magdalena and Caguán regions.

In the early seventeenth century many Tama were forced to work in encomiendas around Timaná, and colonial authorities permitted their enslavement for cattle estates. Tama joined Andaquí and Mocoa people in a general uprising in the Putumayo and Caquetá regions in 1721.