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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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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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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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Yoo ne luguiaa: How Do Binnizá Women Inhabit Spaces?
The diverse ways in which indigenous women inhabit a space, allow us to recognize identity and gender issues and enable us to analyze territorial problems by interweaving the gaze of thousands of people who share the same space. Every place we inhabit ends up being a biographical slice of our life histories, full of traces…
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What Is an Imaginary State Called Kailasa Doing in Ecuador, and Why Is It Interested in the Indigenous Territories of the Ecuadorian Amazon?
What Are the United States of Kailasa? The self-proclaimed Hindu religious leader Nithyananda Paramashivam claims to be the founder in 2019 of the United States of Kailasa. Kailasa is said to be located in Latin America, on an island near the Galapagos archipelago in Ecuador, according to a report by the BBC. Vistazo magazine in…
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The Tastil People Make Strides toward the Future on the Stones of the Past
The whistling of the wind envelops the hills and ravines. We feel wrapped and moved by the mystique of the lullabies that, in moments, explode into screams, until the calmness arrives again. This occurs again and again: they are the voices of our ancestors announcing their survival in the ancestral Tastil territory. In the province…
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“Salta Is Indigenous,” the Rivers Sing with Their Stones, while Mother Earth Roars
The complexion of northwestern Argentina (NOA) is being redefined, especially in border provinces such as Salta and Jujuy. When we reconstruct the history of indigenous peoples, it confirms their preexistence, even before the Inca expansion. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary to inquire about their hidden genealogies and ways of survival—through song, storytelling, medicine,…