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The Voice of Ckuri: The Revitalization of the Kunza Language in the Salta Puna Region, Argentina
We agreed to meet at a linguistics conference in the city of Salta. Our common interests were joining the sessions on glottopolitics and sociolinguistics and scant opportunities to discuss current research on the country’s indigenous languages. We wondered whether the topic had made it on the research and academic linguistic event’s agenda, after the United…
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The Voice of Ckuri: The Revitalization of the Kunza Language in the Salta Puna Region, Argentina
We agreed to meet at a linguistics conference in the city of Salta. Our common interests were joining the sessions on glottopolitics and sociolinguistics and scant opportunities to discuss current research on the country’s indigenous languages. We wondered whether the topic had made it on the research and academic linguistic event’s agenda, after the United…
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Foreign Extractive Companies Invade Indigenous Territories in Ecuador’s Amazon Region
Ecuador is located in South America and has a territorial extension of 159,300 square miles, distributed in four regions: the coast, the highlands, the Amazon, and the Galapagos. It is considered one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity, a place full of richness in flora and fauna, a mega diverse region. However, in the…
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Mujer de Plata, Women Against Machismo
Red shoes with notes about femicides in Potosí and the Mujer de Plata
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Awasqa’s Scholars Program Allows Community Journalists to Explore and Grow their Craft in Writing and Storytelling
The Awasqa scholarship program has highlighted and made tangible the importance of supporting community communicators from underrepresented communities. Awasqa invited a group of young students and professionals from Abya Yala, between the ages of 18 and 28, with some experience in communication and journalism, to develop and share their work. The program’s purpose has been…
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Ancestral Diversities: A Contemplation on Reconstructing our Memories
“Is it possible to be Mapuche and marika (queer)? What do people think of those who are like me?” These questions sparked a number of conversations about how Mapuche history has been shaped by many attempts to erase the existence of the diversities that inhabit Wallmapu (Mapuche Territory). Thus, little by little, the vindication of…
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Aymara Communities in Puno File Lawsuit Against 7 Mining Concessions
The Aymara peasant communities of the Kelluyo district, in the province of Chucuito, Puno region, filed an injunction against the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), the Geological Mining and Metallurgical Institute (INGEMMET) and a foreign investment mining company for the imposition of seven mining concessions located in their territories. This legal action is an…
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Jichi, the Water Keeper
A mysterious being manifests itself usually as a large snake. The basin of the Guapomó dam or reservoir is located within the Chiquitano Dry Forest of the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Its waters flow into the San Ignacio de Velasco dam, which covers an area of 300 square kilometers. Its ecosystem is under the…
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Earth Homes: A Dignified Way of Living on Mother Earth
When he died, his house was abandoned, it fell apart little by little from the rain and the sun, the plants climbed through the windows and the earth with which it was built was reintegrated to its source. In the rural territories of Mexico, the act of building homes with earth is so ancestral that…
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Stirring Announcement of the El Algarrobo Project Rekindles Tambogrande’s Historic Struggle Against Mining
Following the declaration of national interest of the El Algarrobo polymetallic mining project, located in Tambogrande, Piura region, grassroots social organizations established a transitory commission to collectively respond to this provocation made by the Agencia de Promoción de la Inversión Privada (ProInversión) and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem). In 2002, the district of…